When Elephants Fight

by Walters, Eric; Bradbury, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781551439006
• ISBN10: 155143900X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Orca Book Pub

Summary

"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."

Author Biography

Eric Walters is one of Canada's most successful writers for young readers with more than forty-five novels to his credit. He is the only three-time winner of the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award and has made presentations to over 750,000 children across the country Adrian Bradbury is cofounder and director of GuluWalk, a foundation dedicated to supporting the abandoned children of northern Uganda

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Introduction	p. 4
Uganda
Jimmy: Walking Away from Danger	p. 8
Follow-up Jimmy	p. 17
Republic of Uganda
History	p. 18
The Conplict	p. 19
Child Soldiers	p. 21
Sri Lanka
Annu: Born in a War Zone	p. 24
Follow-up Annu	p. 31
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
History	p. 32
The Conflict	p. 34
Tamil Tigers-Terrorists of Freedom Fighters?	p. 37
Indian Connection	p. 38
Religion	p. 39
Afghanistan
Farooq: Home under Fire	p. 40
Follow-up Farooq	p. 45
Afghanistan
History	p. 46
Soviet Involvement 1979-1989	p. 47
After the Soviet Withdrawal 1989-1992	p. 49
The Taliban	p. 49
The Taliban in Power 1998-2001	p. 50
September 11, 2001	p. 51
NATO	p. 53
Ethnic, Religious and Language Divisions	p. 54
Poverty	p. 55
Bosnia
Nadja: Life in Sniper Alley	p. 56
Follow-up Nadja	p. 65
Bosnia and Herzegovina
History of Bosnia-Herzegovina	p. 66
1945-1981	p. 67
1991-2007	p. 68
Religion	p. 69
Differences/Similarities	p. 70
Clean the Field	p. 70
The Sudan
Toma: How could so much be lost so quickly?	p. 72
Follow-up Toma	p. 79
Republic of the Sudan
Geography	p. 80
History	p. 80
Recent History	p. 81
The Crisis in Darfur	p. 83
Animism	p. 86
Colonialism and its ongoing influence in Africa	p. 86
Afterword	p. 88
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