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José Ramos-Horta speaks frankly about peace efforts |
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Posted 3/9/2010 at 10:19 AM by Betsy L in Laureates News
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José Ramos-Horta spoke in Ireland about what his country of East Timor has learned about how to make true peace. He was very blunt about what it takes to improve a community in poverty. He stated that:
| “It is not like academics or some western donors or the UN who think that if you finance a few workshops and write a report you have contributed to peace,” the Nobel peace laureate told The Irish Times . “I have seen so much money wasted by donors on peace workshop after peace workshop. It is much more than that. It is meeting with families and with the victims day in, day out; it is finding jobs for them; providing them with training, with funding to create jobs; creating hopes and a future for them. |
Click here to read the full article: So much money wasted by donors, says Ramos Horta |
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