BBC: UN Secretary General calls for more peacekeeping troops for Congo.

More on Congo

Just to note that the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has some great stuff up on the crisis in Eastern Congo (stories, background resources, Q & A).  Michael Kavanagh’s reporting is thorough and thoughtful, including this radio piece he did last week for PRI’s The World.  Here’s TW’s Congo page.

And lest I forget, Global Voices is also doing great stuff.

Armistice Day

It’s 90 years since the end of the fighting on the Western Front. There’s great stuff  from Clark Boyd and Carol Hills about WWI veterans and their letters home on PRI’s The World today. There’s tons of stuff on the BBC website too.  I did a segment about the end of WWI for my recent series on how wars end and it got me fascinated at the way historical memory is formed.  Historian Dan Todman, who’s written a book called The Great War: Myth and Memory, has an interesting piece at OpenDemocracy on how World War One is remembered. He notes the divergence between what he calls “the public and academic discourses about the 1914-18 war.”   It’s fascinating reading.