Nick Megoran
@NickMegoran
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Political geographer at Newcastle University. Interested in how we divide up and share the world - and how we can do that in more life-enhancing ways.
Joined March 2018
80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @CNDuk .
theconversation.com
Eighty years ago, this remarkable event showed a rare glimpse of humanity on both sides of a bitter conflict.
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What if state borders united rather than divided? The curious case of the 'Peace Border' between Uruguay and Brazil.
labrujulaverde.com
In a world where borders are often synonymous with separation, control, and sometimes conflict, the Peace Border between Uruguay and Brazil is a curious exception. This border stretch, connecting the...
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RT @MattCartoonist: My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph. Buy a print of my cartoons at Original artwork fr….
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RT @SpursOfficial: Outrageous from Pape Sarr 😮💨. Don't miss the action – watch the second half live on SPURSPLAY 📺.
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Great article about a little-known truce during the Battle of Okinawa @OkinawaBattle45 @battle_okinawa @OkianawBattle.
Living out faith in a hostile world: Learn from the incredible Akajima truce of 1945. My article in the @TheBaptistTimes . #ChristianLiving #Peace.
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'A remarkable prevailing of peace over bloodshed'.What an unlikely WW2 truce on a remote Japanese island can teach us about living out Christianity in a hostile culture.@BaptistTimes.
baptist.org.uk
What an unlikely WW2 truce on a remote Japanese island can teach us about living out Christianity in a hostile culture. By Jamie Megoran
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Online version, with different images that are really worth seeing, available here for subscribers:
thetimes.com
A forgotten truce on Aka Island, Okinawa, which ended one of the most bloody land battles of the Second World War, was commemorated this year
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Can peace break out unexpectedly? Article I wrote for The Times this week about an incident at the end of World War 2 that is every bit as remarkable as the December 1914 Christmas truces yet which remains virtually unknown. @Pwebstertimes @UniofNewcastle
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Thanks to @Pwebstertimes for suggesting I write the story of this almost unbelievable outbreak of peace in one of history's most bloody battles.
thetimes.com
A forgotten truce on Aka Island, Okinawa, which ended one of the most bloody land battles of the Second World War, was commemorated this year
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RT @Telegraph: 🔴 Residents live in fear of ‘terrorising’ purge as Israeli settlers burn the West Bank’s last christian town. Read more her….
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"The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic" - article I wrote for today's Times (print and online). One of the most amazing stories I have ever encountered. A moment of peaceful, intimate interaction in midst of terrible battle.
thetimes.com
A forgotten truce on Aka Island, Okinawa, which ended one of the most bloody land battles of the Second World War, was commemorated this year
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And The place of ‘Women's Voices…’ in Janet's life and career, and its ‘aftermath’, Alan Townsend
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Geographies of settlement and participatory methods: from the rainforest to Jordan, Olivia Mason @olihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjtg.70002.
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Unsettling accounts: Voicing disquiet in other rainforests, Rebecca Elmhirst
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