Conflict
Conflict takes many forms, from disagreements between different political parties to indigenous communities battling government and corporate interests to full-blown warfare. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Conflict” feature reporting that covers adversarial politics, war and peace. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on conflict.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: A Stillborn Democracy
This week, millions of demonstrators poured into streets of cities and towns across Egypt to protest...
July 3, 2013 -
Scores of Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2011 in one of the biggest waves of self...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: On Love and Suicide
Pulitzer Center grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy introduced us to the landay — a centuries...
June 24, 2013 -
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Chile's Youth Response
The Ministry of Education in Santiago has been under attack by Chilean students who believe that a...
![Media file: AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026.JPG](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026_0.JPG.webp?h=56d0ca2e&itok=UutLqFjY "Zarmina Shehadi's mother Simin Gula and father Khel Mohammad. They denied that Zarmina wrote poetry or that her death was suicide. “It was an accident. She was trying to get warm after a bath, but the firewood was wet, so she poured petrol on it and caught herself on fire.” And no, her daughter absolutely did not like writing or reading or poetry, her mother argued. “She was a good girl, an uneducated girl. She was a good tailor. Our girls don’t want to go to school." Image by Seamus Murphy. Afghanistan, 2012.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-10-13/mothers_day_walk_3338.jpg.webp?h=06ac0d8c&itok=ubkAJt1O ""What do we want?" "Peace." "When do we want it?" "Now!" A mother's peace walk in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Maria, Arcelia and other mothers try to raise awareness to end the violence that killed their sons. Image by Rieke Havertz. Chicago, 2013.")
