Blog World – More visual

  • Obituary – James Le Mesurier – † 11. November 2019

    Einsame Nacht Die ihr meine Brüder seid, Arme Menschen nah und ferne, Die ihr im Bezirk der Sterne Tröstung träumet eurem Leid, Die ihr wortelos gefaltet In die blass gestirnte Nacht Schmale Dulderhände haltet, Die ihr leidet, die ihr wacht, Arme, irrende Gemeinde, Schiffer ohne Stern und Glück – Fremde, dennoch mir Vereinte, Gebt mir Read more

  • 2020

    The link to this article, an opinion piece written by Madeleine Albright, has been sitting in my draft folder for this blog since April 2018. I am using it now, twenty months later. It has lost nothing of it’s relevance. The stakkato of hate, bigotry, white supremacy, disregard for the rule of law, bullying and Read more

  • Workshop “Implementing the Protection of Civilians Concept in UN Peace Operations”

    December 12, 2019, I was invited as a panelist in a workshop with the above title, convening a number of experienced individuals providing a political, humanitarian, military, and policing perspective to one of the most demanding topics within the context of peace operations of the United Nations. The following is my contribution to this workshop, Read more

  • Ending a leave of absence

    So, I left the blog mostly unattended for a long while now. When my time with the United Nations ended and I arrived in Germany, many things took surprising, and to quite some extent, unwanted turns. I needed time to process. A lot of time. That’s how life is, isn’t it? I embraced my inward Read more

  • A bone-crushing juggernaut

    “Should his own face in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first take a look at the results normal people get from self-sufficiency. Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking into warring fragments. Each fragment says to the others “We are right and you Read more

  • PeacebyPeace Folge 5: Wozu brauchen die UN deutsche Polizisten?

    https://peacelab.blog/2018/07/peacebypeace-folge-5-wozu-brauchen-die-un-deutsche-polizisten Read more