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When I first got on that plane for Somalia as a young doctor, I had no idea what it meant to live with war.
Over the years of doing this work, unfortunately, war has killed far too many people close to me.
And on at least a couple of occasions, war has very nearly killed me as well.
Because you see, war is ours, as human beings.
Our ancestors were very busy surviving poverty, drought, famine, riot, disease and civil war.
I mean, we've tried a lot of approaches to social justice, like war and competitive ice dancing.
Those early experiences had a major impact on how I now think about war and conflict.
But we're not going to end war by telling people that violence is morally wrong.
A general wouldn't march his troops into battle unless he had a plan to win the war.
The technique of war has been developed over thousands of years with massive resources and some of our best minds dedicated to understanding and improving how it works.
The US government recently admitted that it's in a stalemate in its war against ISIS.
It may be that we can improve nonviolent action to a point where it is increasingly used in place of war.
With human innovation, we can make nonviolent struggle more powerful than the newest and latest technologies of war.
Poaching for ivory and bushmeat is leading to global epidemic, disease transfer and war.
After six years of war, Homs is now a half-destroyed city.
When I look at my destroyed city, of course, I ask myself: What has led to this senseless war?
While many reasons had led to the Syrian war, we shouldn't underestimate the way in which, by contributing to the loss of identity and self-respect, urban zoning and misguided, inhumane architecture have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred.
The clear example can be seen in the informal housing system, which used to host, before the war, over 40 percent of the population.
Yes, prior to the war, almost half of the Syrian population lived in slums, peripheral areas without proper infrastructure, made of endless rows of bare block boxes containing people, people who mostly belonged to the same group, whether based on religion, class, origin or all of the above.
This ghettoized urbanism proved to be a tangible precursor of war.
Hopefully, the war will end, and the question that, as an architect, I have to ask, is: How do we rebuild?
Those needs were totally overlooked in the Syrian cities before the war.
During World War II, breaking cryptosystems like Enigma was critical to decoding enemy transmissions and turning the tide of the war.
There may be even talk of war in places that were certain they were done with it.
That year, the country was coming out of civil war.
We're seeing bloggers and journalists being jailed, charged and intimidated by their own governments, many of which are allies with the West in the war on terror.
When I arrived in Beirut on assignment to cover that war, I was relieved to be united with my family, after they had finally managed to escape southern Lebanon.
And what about victims who neither have the time, money or resources to wage war, who are left disempowered, mislabeled and broken?
So they waged their war with extraordinary delicacy.
Well, in the course of studying these and a bunch of other success stories, like the way Rwanda pulled itself back together after civil war or Brazil has reduced inequality, or South Korea has kept its economy growing faster and for longer than any other country on Earth, I've noticed a few common threads.
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