NJMyers
Female
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65 years old
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USA
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Last updated 4/11/2008 12:40 pm
I am an environmental writer with a strong passion for peacebuilding in the human/natural world. Three websites show where I have been recently and where I am going. I've been working on the precautionary principle with the Science and Environmental Health Network http://www.sehn.org for the past 10 years. I have developed an interactive website for the latest cultural and legal permutation of the precautionary principle, Future Generation Guardianship, http://guardiansofthefuture.org. And I rediscovered my love for Africa on a recent service trip to Liberia with the everyday gandhis project, http://www.everydaygandhis.com. My husband I are headed back to Africa soon, I hope. We spent three years in Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s, back when it was Zaire. Putting all those passions together is my next big life challenge.
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Last month I spent three weeks in the company of a handful former child soldiers in Liberia who call themselves "Future Guardians of Peace."
When the Liberian civil war ended in 2003, these kids were gaunt, hardened, physically and mentally wounded children. Now in their late teens and early twenties, they are radiant, generous, responsible young people. They have resumed their schooling, extricated themselves from the drug-and-alcohol culture of their war buddies, and are working hard to earn the respect of a suspicious community. Read more...
