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Check out the first update from Catie during her experience with the Peace Corps in Rwanda

In our line of work, people get pretty skeptical that they can contribute anything to ending a conflict. For those of us (most of us) who find keeping a roof over our head, food in our bellies and getting a certain amount of enjoyment out things along the way a pretty good challenge, I present for your use an idea.

Ideas have long been a far better tool of revolution than any stick, stone or rocket propelled grenade. Just take, for example, a few of our personal favorites:

Mountainous road building is challenging and often environmentally destructive.  However, this need not be so.  The mountainous regions in China provide a good template for understanding how road infrastructure can be developed in both a cheaper and environmentally friendly way.

What if I told you that one of today's most appalling issues is something believed to have ended over one hundred years ago? What if I told you that something considered an abomination for hundreds of years is now being played out at a magnitude hundreds of times greater?

More than five years after the end of the civil war that was responsible for the deaths of more than 13,000 people, the UN peacekeeping mission to the country is leaving. The UN peacekeeping mission was stationed in Nepal to monitor the aftermath of the signing of the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Agreement which ended the ten year war, abolished the monarchy, allowed the Maoists into government, and disarmed them.