Martti Ahtisaari receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. Chris Jackson/Getty Images.
Ahtisaari’s role in Namibia was crucial. But he left a major legacy in pursuing peace in various places of conflict in his later life too.
John Liebenberg in the ransacked hospital in Cubal, Angola, in 1993.
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No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
Chinese soldiers and police serve in eight UN peace missions in Africa.
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The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
A human skull on display in Berlin in 2018. Germany handed back human remains seized during the Namibia genocide from 1904 to 1908.
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An oral history based biography of a survivor of colonial genocide in Namibia indicates instances of humanity during an entirely inhumane era.