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Ultimately, design itself is a process of constant education for the people that we work with and for and for us as designers.
So while this is a very small story, we hope that it represents a step in the right direction for the future of rural communities and for the future of public education and hopefully also for the future of design.
Civil wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.
For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.
They exclude people that died as a consequence of civil war, from hunger or disease, for example.
And they also do not properly account for civilian suffering more generally.
To put it differently, for the civilians that suffer the consequences of ethnic conflict and civil war, there is no good war and there is no bad peace.
But for many parts of Africa, a colleague of mine once put it this way, "The cease-fire on Tuesday night was reached just in time for the genocide to start on Wednesday morning."
If there's no solution on the battlefield, three factors can account for the prevention of ethnic conflict and civil war, or for sustainable peace afterwards: leadership, diplomacy and institutional design.
Crucially, for the long-term success of the peace process in Northern Ireland, he imposed very clear conditions for the participation and negotiations.
The comprehensive peace agreement for Sudan signed in 2005 turned out to be less comprehensive than envisaged, and its provisions may yet bear the seeds of a full-scale return to war between north and south.
Changes and shortcomings in leadership, more off than on international diplomacy and institutional failures account for this in almost equal measure.
The failure to achieve a negotiated solution for Kosovo and the violence, tension and de facto partition that resulted from it have their reasons in many, many different factors.
First, the intransigence of local leaders to settle for nothing less than their maximum demands.
Second, an international diplomatic effort that was hampered from the beginning by Western support for Kosovo's independence.
So even in situations where outcomes are less than optimal, local leaders and international leaders have a choice, and they can make a difference for the better.
For me personally, the most critical lesson of all is this: Local commitment to peace is all-important, but it is often not enough to prevent or end violence.
Yet, no amount of diplomacy or institutional design can make up for local failures and the consequences that they have.
Now, if any of you have ever heard of AIM, the American Indian Movement, or of Russell Means, or Leonard Peltier, or of the standoff at Oglala, then you know Pine Ridge is ground zero for Native issues in the US.
So I've been asked to talk a little bit today about my relationship with the Lakota, and that's a very difficult one for me, because, if you haven't noticed from my skin color, I'm white, and that is a huge barrier on a Native reservation.
"Wasichu" is a Lakota word that means "non-Indian," but another version of this word means "the one who takes the best meat for himself."
So let's look today at a set of photographs of a people who lost so that we could gain, and know that when you see these people's faces, that these are not just images of the Lakota; they stand for all indigenous people.
We appropriated land for trails and trains to shortcut through the heart of the Lakota Nation.
The treaty seemed to be a complete victory for Red Cloud and the Sioux.
It began carrying, among other things, large numbers of hunters, who began the wholesale killing of buffalo, eliminating a source of food, clothing and shelter for the Sioux.
The Fort Laramie Treaty called for at least three-quarters of the tribe to sign away land.
For this so-called "battle," 20 Congressional Medals of Honor for Valor were given to the 7th Cavalry.
To this day, this is the most Medals of Honor ever awarded for a single battle.
More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Whenever I visit the site of the mass grave at Wounded Knee, I see it not just as a grave for the Lakota or for the Sioux, but as a grave for all indigenous peoples.
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