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It was a dark blue night. I was six and tried to get out of a tall hedge maze. The full moon made me see better, but not escape. I longed to be on the moon to spot the exit. This was the first dream I remember. My academic life has been a search for points of view from which I could see the big picture and find a way out of violence and peace problems.
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period.
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See Master in Conflict and Sustainable Peace (MaCSP): Self Evaluation Report + Appendices (KU Leuven, Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, December 2006).
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Reychler, L., Langer, A. (2020). My Personal and Academic Journey. In: Reychler, L., Langer, A. (eds) Luc Reychler: A Pioneer in Sustainable Peacebuilding Architecture. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40208-2_1
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