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..The Pulitzer Center's mission is to promote in-depth coverage of international affairs, focusing on topics that have been under-reported, mis-reported - or not reported at all.
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Projects by Region
Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica
Poet Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to report on how HIV/AIDS has affected lives. The result is a collection of stories told through essays, poems, video, music and photographs that capture the range of emotions experienced by people both living with the disease and those caring for the affected.
Terror in the Golden Land
Burma’s streets are quiet after the military government crushed September’s Saffron Revolution, leaving at least 31 dead. But in a country where the majority of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, desperation always lingers just below the surface. Reporter Jacob Baynham travels to the country to explore the hidden realities of this Orwellian state.
Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya
While Americans fret about rising gas prices, many experts have argued that the major conflicts of the 21st century will be fought over water, not oil. Multimedia journalists from The Common Language Project and AfrikaNews.org investigate the role of water scarcity in fueling conflict and stifling development in the Eastern African countries of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Refuge in Ruin: Returning to Nahr al-Bared
A three-month battle between the Lebanese army and the al-Qaeda-inspired militants of Fatah al-Islam left the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp in northern Lebanon in ruins. Reporters Don Duncan and William Wheeler travel to Lebanon to explore the consequences of the refugees' displacement, the debate over rebuilding and the prospects of further violence in Lebanon's camps.
Peru's Petroleum Play: Amazon Oil and Politics
An oil and gas boom is pushing through the megadiverse rainforest slopes of the Andes Mountains and the adjacent Amazonian lowlands of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Kelly Hearn investigates the environmental and social impacts of the regional hydrocarbons push, especially claims of negligence and fraud relating to the Amazon’s most controversial energy “mega-project.”
Caucasus
Pulitzer Center Director Jon Sawyer traveled to Russia and throughout the South Caucasus, reporting on a region that is caught between East and West, North and South as well as its own conflicted history.
Alaska
Reporter Michelle Nijhuis and photographer Jeffrey Barbee spent 10 days on the Juneau Icefield following a research team led by veteran glaciologist Maynard Miller. His half-century commitment to research and teaching on the icefield has given him a rare first-hand perspective on climate change.
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