Articles by Libby
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Who Are They, Anyway? Finally Meeting the Strangers in Our Own Land
Libby and Len Traubman | Turning Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
In our related personal experiences of peacebuilding in the Middle East and in Nigeria, the people ask about Islamic State and Boko Haram: “Who are they, anyway?” And so it is today, in divided America and around Earth; walled-off individuals largely fearful and ignorant of unknown others, strangers to one another.
→ read full articleTrue Realism: From ‘I’ to ‘We’
Libby & Len Traubman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
“In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
→ read full articleInterpol’s Red Notices Used by Some to Pursue Political Dissenters, Opponents
Libby Lewis – Center for Public Integrity,
25 Jul 2011
Interpol, the world’s largest international police organization:
• Isn’t transparent. It doesn’t have to share any data with anyone, other than its own police members, and its own appeals body. Its operations are mostly opaque, in the name of protecting sovereign law enforcement information. The statistics it publishes don’t reveal how often it finds cases are political, or when its power has been abused.
• Isn’t accountable to any outside court or body. That’s because Interpol isn’t a creature of governments. It’s more like a huge, private police club.
• And Interpol is putting more power into the hands of national police forces — partly to save time and money.