More than a billion people across 60 nations are living in fragile or failing states, like Haiti, Bosnia, the DRC and East Timor. What is needed to stabilize these particular countries?
East Timor: Fragile States - Halting the Slide Toward Failure
Special correspondent Kira Kay examines East Timor's ongoing effort to rebuild itself, 10 years after winning independence from Indonesia.
Fragile states provide fertile ground for trafficking, piracy, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, disease pandemics, regional tensions, and even genocide. This Gateway examines modern crises that find their roots in international historical events and draws parallels between current global issues and topics covered across the curriculum.
It was one of those bits of luck that you come to rely on from time to time as a reporter in the field: you take a chance on a questionable story element, travel a distance to cover it with pretty
Eduardo Belo Soares showed me a photo of himself surrounded by rebel soldiers, taken on the eve of East Timor's vote for independence 10 years ago.
Veterans, widows, children who never knew their fathers—all gathered on the red-earth hills overlooking the blue seas of the Wetar Straits.
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Jason Maloney is a co-founder, producer, videographer and editor with the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR) – a non-profit organization dedicated to producing and providing vital...
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Kira Kay is Executive Director of the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR) – a non-profit organization dedicated to producing and providing vital international television news programming to an...