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The Kolo Blog is a blog resource with multiple contributing authors where all things new, culture, research, analysis, art and opinion are shared. Whether you are called to submit writing, or art, songs, news links, articles, thoughts, opinions, positions, calls to action, instructions and much more are shared and archived.

Why Soldiers Rape By Helen Benedict, In These Times

Why Soldiers Rape

By Helen Benedict, In These Times
Printed September 13, 2008
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from “<http://www.helenbenedict.com/>The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq,” to be published by Beacon Press in April 2009.

An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at […read more]

Danica Anderson2020-01-23T22:46:59-08:00September 13th, 2008|0 Comments

The Wild Elephant Encounter

The wild elephant encounter

In 2003, an Italian NGO and UNICEF contracted me to go to Anaradapura in Sri Lanka and teach on the subject of gender-based violence. As part of the assignment, I was ensconced in a small house on the grounds of a hotel resort run by a Sri Lankan and his Italian […read more]

Danica Anderson2020-01-23T23:55:13-08:00August 7th, 2003|0 Comments

History of The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Our story begins in Bosnia, site of recent and past genocides with brutal wars that have displaced and traumatized its people in unspeakable ways. The title is a reflection of this region and its many horrors since the word Balkan translates into ‘blood and honey’. All over the world, women, men and children have suffered […read more]

A2020-01-14T14:47:08-08:00January 14th, 2002|0 Comments

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