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I’m not talking about the Legend of Zelda here or any other MMORPG, but about the much less dreamlike crisis in Darfur in a very specific ‘real life game genre’ I dub World Wide Role Playing Game – WWRPG. Last year I wrote an article titled: ‘Darfur: History, a never ending story’and I was wondering if we could learn from our past mistakes in a way not to let happen again things we already so badly experienced. And there is definitely no simple answer to that. Because things get more and more complicated as the number of protagonists increases. I am not a Darfur specialist or a member of a Darfur advocacy group, many very well aware and acknowledged people already talk about the situation and they give their point of view and explanations about the conflict in the Sudanese region. So I don’t pretend I understand things better than…⇒ READ MORE

There are only a few hours left before 2008 and this year like the year before, had its good and bad times. I already talked about non-profit organizations and peace movements on this blog, we are approaching the moment of the traditional new year’s resolutions, and this is when I look back and hope the new year coming will be better than this one. I am not saying each new year is worse than the previous one, but the betterment is thin, if nonexistent. Environment has become a real issue, freedom of speech is threatened in many countries and for different reasons (I couldn’t not mention here Pakistan‘s former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, assassinated a few days ago), peace movements are put down (Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi and a thousand monks. Again.) and volunteers working for nonprofit organizations are risking their life everyday in some part…⇒ READ MORE

Recent events in Burma pushed the country onto the front pages on the media. Thousands of peaceful monks protesting since mid-August after the government hiked fuel prices, a 62 years-old lady being under house arrest for more than 10 years because she won the free elections 17 years ago, and a strong military junta who doesn’t want to step down. This could make a great movie plot outline but it’s real story. And it’s happening now. Again (Darfur: when History is a never ending story…). Twenty years ago, hundreds of protesters were massacred by security forces, two years before the election results were annulled. In 2004, the first round of sanctions was put in place but in January 2007, China and Russia cast a double veto on a U.S. resolution calling for the release of all political prisoners and stop attacks against ethnic minorities. Once again, China and Russia are…⇒ READ MORE

A few months ago, I posted an article on a French web site about the situation in Darfur. I thought it was time to write something about this conflict nobody would care about since no images from the disaster were available. It’s difficult to aware people about a conflict when we can’t show it, everybody knows chaos images are selling just like in everyday’s TV news about Iraq, we get plenty of bloody bodies laying on the ground after yet another car-bombing. When I first talked about Darfur with some friends, it was almost three years ago, the answer was: “It’s yet another conflict in Africa, we can’t do much about it“. Things were supposed to be that simple, “yet another conflict in Africa“. Nobody really cared and since last January, things started to change -a bit- and I was thinking: “Now people know, the situation is going to change“….⇒ READ MORE