In Warscapes, solidarity and love are not less of a reality than suffering and violence.

I just accepted a job, well an intership really- it does not pay, but i believe in in the work. It is kind of a mix of what I have passion for : research, and what i want to grow as : a policy and advocacy officer. My job would be to do field investigative research in Serbia documenting border violence on people on the move. I have so much to think about- what can i do , what do i want to get out of this?

Kamauu teaches me that sometimes Dignity is stronger than Hunger. Kamauu is a jobless youngster who dreams of making a life as a comedian. Our protagonist is without parents, and his household only sources of income are his grandmother’s casual work in a hospital, and some unpredictable Wester Union transfers from a better off relative in Australia. All in all, Kamauu and her grandmother struggle to put enough food on the table on a regular basis. A few months into my researc

The Universal search for meaning and the importance of taking people's projects of personal and social becoming seriously- warscapes or not. One of the tasks of anthropology is to explore that which makes us human. And while I will not dare to unpack the complexity behind the human condition, I am certain that the search for meaning is part of the human algorithm. In fact, I am still to know another person which does not search for completeness; and I am not talking about a

During my time in Bukavu I had the pleasure to interview Douce Namwezi, activist and creator of Uwezo- a local Ngo that fights for women rights. Douce started her career working as a journalist and she remarqued how this experience provided her with a first hand understanding of people’s most present issues in Bukavu; and in what it was a clear attack to top-down policy programming, she remarqued how these differed- largely- from those set as priorities ‘to be fixed’ by inter