Samer and ist - See below:
On Jan 18, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Samer Abdelnour <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ron, > > I do appreciate where you are coming from, and your strong interest in char. > Again, I'm probably not the right person to continue a char-focused > discussion, but it is certainly an area I will look into further. That said, > and if a little humour is permitted on this listserv, I'm pleased to see that > you've explicitly stated your meme! :) > > As I noted before, I've seen that charcoal is in widespread use, however I'm > unfamiliar with cultivation/production techniques. Certainly a collective of > blacksmiths I researched in Darfur were hoping to move from charcoal to > electricity, but this coincided with a plan for proper concrete workshop > space and generally better working conditions. They were also increasingly > concerned about the environmental and health impacts of their work, but for > them such considerations were a luxury of their success. [RWL: I would give blacksmiths the right to as much char as they need. But I would strongly encourage their own production of char. I believe they will find plenty of uses for the pyrolysis gases (baking bread? firing pottery, etc), and will save a lot of money. > > Noted in the paper is the sheer inconsistency and difficulty of measuring > sexual violence in conflict zones. Few international NGOs attempt to address > domestic forms of sexual (and other) violence. As a result such is often > missing in gender violence statistics etc. Reports that do (some mentioned in > the paper) suggest that women are not safer from sexual violence in camps. > This is a fuzzy space and more research needs to be done to understand it. As > for the excerpt, it argues strongly *against* placing blame and > responsibility on women. [RWL: I suggest you put this last sentence at the beginning and end of your papers. Erin and I missed it. Ron > > Warmly, > Samer > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/ >
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