Most recent projects in Europe
Making peace is often thought to be the hardest part of dealing with the world’s failing states. But while ending conflict is undoubtedly challenging, nation-building is often more difficult still. The Pulitzer Center’s Fragile States project, a collaboration with the Bureau for International Reporting, offers a series of stories filmed in four of the world’s most at-risk nations.
Belfast is a city with a long and bloody history of sectarian violence. For young people, growing up in its segregated neighborhoods, Belfast is still a city divided by walls.
As Latvia experiences one of the sharpest economic downturns in the world, and thousands of people participate in anti-government protests, Kristina Rizga and Akim Aginsky report on what the global recession means for ordinary Latvians and the future of the European Union.
As a result of the war in Kosovo, the U.N. relocated some 130 Roma families – also called gypsies – to two camps built on the tailing stands of the biggest toxic lead mine in Europe. Here, the children that survive to age 19 are left with irreversible brain damage for the rest of their lives.
When a policeman shot a 15 year old schoolboy dead in Athens on 6 December, Greece erupted in rioting unprecedented since the 1974 restitution of democracy. An entire generation of young people flooded into the streets. What caused such anger, and how will the 2008 December riots shape Greece?
