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• Finding virtue after a war crimes verdict
• Now between two presidents, Zimbabweans dare to imagine ‘an easier life’
• In post-conflict Colombia, land-rights and funding for peacebuilding face off

Finding virtue after a war crimes verdict Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:24 PM PST A special court set up by the United Nations during the Balkan wars of the 1990s made its final and most important verdict on Nov. 22. It found Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb military, guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. While the trial was the most significant since the Nuremberg tribunal, it did not end with any general message about some of Europe's worst atrocities in the 20th century.

Now between two presidents, Zimbabweans dare to imagine ‘an easier life’ Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:04 PM PST Recommended: Think you know Africa? In the course of her life, that has proven to be a virtue Ms. Moyo has often needed, as she lived through the transformation of the bright Zimbabwe of her childhood into something far dimmer.

In post-conflict Colombia, land-rights and funding for peacebuilding face off Posted: 22 Nov 2017 06:25 AM PST When South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) arrived in this central Colombian farming town ten years ago, it promised residents like Herver Oliveraula "rivers of milk and honey," he recalls. Mr. Oliveraula was skeptical, he says, but also wanted to trust that his community – and country – could benefit from the natural resources underfoot. It laid out mining concessions from the government, granting AGA rights to explore in nearly 80 percent of the municipality – including Oliveraula's 6-hectare farm.

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