The News Review:

- Industry Braces for Blowback from ‘Blood Diamond’
- Fear and learning
- Group: Sea piracy drops worldwide

Industry Braces for Blowback from ‘Blood Diamond’
NPR – Jul 18, 2005
It doesn’t open for another couple of months, but the diamond industry has already launched a sophisticated campaign that seems designed to blunt any damage the movie might cause to sales this holiday season. Set in 1999 in Sierra Leone, the movie presents a brutal portrait of the diamond business. Characters include a smuggler, a corrupt diamond syndicate and rebels who cut off the limbs of villagers to scare others into working in the mines. But before audiences see any amputees this Christmas, the diamond industry wants people to know what’s been done to halt the so-called blood diamond trade. Defensive Ad BlitzLast month, the World Diamond Council — a trade group — took out full-page ads in 10 newspapers. They touted the Kimberley Process, a three-year-old, U…
It doesn’t open for another couple of months, but the diamond industry has already launched a sophisticated campaign that seems designed to blunt any damage the movie might cause to sales this holiday season. Set in 1999 in Sierra Leone, the movie presents a brutal portrait of the diamond business. Characters include a smuggler, a corrupt diamond syndicate and rebels who cut off the limbs of villagers to scare others into working in the mines. But before audiences see any amputees this Christmas, the diamond industry wants people to know what’s been done to halt the so-called blood diamond trade. Defensive Ad BlitzLast month, the World Diamond Council — a trade group — took out full-page ads in 10 newspapers. They touted the Kimberley Process, a three-year-old, U.

Fear and learning
The Age – Jul 18, 2005
Organisations such as the Global Education website Racism NoWay andthe Peace Education Foundation, as well as teachers worldwide, aresharing projects and course materials that deal with theseareas. WAR AND PEACEAustralian educators have created peace in a countryravaged by war. The situation in Sierra Leone remains chaotic,theresult of a nation’s meltdown,yet dramatic progress is being madethrough the efforts of educators such as Dianne Bretherton,anassociate professor of the University of Melbourne and formerdirector of its International Conflict Resolution Centre. As a condition of providing money for the rehabilitation ofSierra Leone,the World Bank insisted on the implementation of apeace education program. Dr Bretherton worked with CurriculumCorporation (an independent education support organisation owned byAustralia’s education ministers) to create a working model ofpeace,rather than a static program that merely discusses it. In the makeshift classrooms of Sierra Leone,where child soldiersare schooled alongside young victims of its civil war,the classrecites the Lord’s Prayer in English,as well as a prayer to Allahin Arabic. The way teachers relate to the children and each other andparents and the community is the key…
WAR AND PEACEAustralian educators have created peace in a countryravaged by war. The situation in Sierra Leone remains chaotic,theresult of a nation’s meltdown,yet dramatic progress is being madethrough the efforts of educators such as Dianne Bretherton,anassociate professor of the University of Melbourne and formerdirector of its International Conflict Resolution Centre. As a condition of providing money for the rehabilitation ofSierra Leone,the World Bank insisted on the implementation of apeace education program. Dr Bretherton worked with CurriculumCorporation (an independent education support organisation owned byAustralia’s education ministers) to create a working model ofpeace,rather than a static program that merely discusses it. In the makeshift classrooms of Sierra Leone,where child soldiersare schooled alongside young victims of its civil war,the classrecites the Lord’s Prayer in English,as well as a prayer to Allahin Arabic. The way teachers relate to the children and each other andparents and the community is the key.

Group: Sea piracy drops worldwide
CNN International – Jul 19, 2005
Globally, 127 vessels were attacked from January to June, a 30 percent drop from 182 cases in the same period last year, the International Maritime Bureau said in a report released by its piracy watch center in Kuala Lumpur. It was the lowest first-half figure since 1999, the British-based bureau reported. Several countries reported fewer attacks, including Indonesia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Ghana, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone. No seafarers have been killed by pirates so far in 2005 compared to 30 by this time last year, the report said. Thirteen crew were injured, down from 44 in the first six months of 2004. But the International Maritime Bureau warned of "a new and worrying trend" of armed robberies in Iraqi waters, noting that four "serious incidents" were reported there between April and June, despite the presence of U.