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6 A stunning 60 percent reduction: From the PSI publication Healthy Lives: Winning the Battle Against Malaria in Rwanda, www.psi.org.
7 Population growth is reduced: See Return of the Population Growth Factor—Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals, report of hearings by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, London, January 2007.
Chapter 21
1 Life-destroying problem: For more about fistula, please see www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/topics/
maternal_mortality/en/index.html and www.endfistula.org.
2 Our next stop: For more information about the HEAL Africa program, please see www.healafrica.org/
3 The insane and diabolical: For a comprehensive history of the Congo tragedy, please see Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
4 The violence of poverty: For more information on alleviating poverty, please see www.thepowerofthepoor.com/concepts/c6.php; http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5651294-147/
nigerian_others_receive_alternative_nobel_prize.csp; and www.grameenfoundation.org/what-we-do.
5 A rather forgotten primate: Special thanks to Vanessa Woods of Duke University for her help in checking the facts about bonobos. Please see her book: Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (New York: Gotham, 2010). For a discussion of primate behavior as it can shed light on human behavior, see Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990); Barbara Smuts, “Male Aggression Against Women: An Evolutionary Perspective,” Human Nature (1992); Diane L. Rosenfeld, “Sexual Coercion, Patriarchal Violence, and Law,” and Richard W. Wrangham and Martin N. Muller, “Sexual Coercion in Humans and Other Primates: The Road Ahead,” both in Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females, Muller and Wrangham, eds. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
Chapter 22
1 Carol Lee Flinders, one of my mentors: My sister gave me a gloriously named book for my thirty-eighth birthday soon after I returned home from Shades of Hope. Reading Carol Lee Flinders’s At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst (New York: HarperCollins, 1998) was a revelation that spoke to my deepest beliefs. Through the wonderful networking that sisterhood intuitively and pragmatically supports, I was able to meet her immediately. “You wrote my book!” I exclaimed. Since then, Carol has become a close friend and adviser. She introduced me to one of my most cherished spiritual practices, passage meditation, which was brought to this country by her spiritual teacher, Eknath Easwaran. I am deeply indebted to Carol for the many gifts she has given me; her willingness to be my friend and share her life experiences with me has powerfully shaped my own.
2 Diane Rosenfeld, who taught a course: An impeccable scholar who thinks outside the box, Professor Rosenfeld represents the very best Harvard has to offer. Her classroom is a dynamic space in which sharp analysis meets new ideas, yielding great hope that today’s students will be the pioneers who solve great social crises, such as gender violence, in this country and abroad. Given the extraordinarily painful nature of much of the material willingly faced by students and faculty alike, she is to be commended that her classroom is a safe and nurturing place in which the students’ thoughts and feelings are equally valued as portals to experiential change. Readers are urged to look in particular at Professor Rosenfeld’s articles on intimate partner violence, GPS monitoring for batterers who violate restraining orders, and lethality assessments and on how to bring those