Grab Your Edition Aza Beast: Attacking The Roots Of War, A Bosnian War Journal Conceived By Colum Murphy Disseminated As Volume

me to write something later about "impartiality" in peace amp justice work,

The next to last chapter, p,, is where he finally reveals his thesis, It's interesting. And the stuff that comes before does seem to show Mr, Murphy had expert knowledge of what was going on in Bosnia and what was failing in the international community,


This book is frustrating, The firstis mostly the UN perspective from one diplomat in Sarajevo, . . Which is useful for making one realize that she does not want to do that for a living,

The editing is poor: aside from typos, the author has a

habit of jumping around in his chronological ordering, telling the same story multiple times, pages apart, leaving the reader with a confused sense that she may have just lost her place.
Adjectives, likewise repeat themselves: the angry mourners shook their fists in an angry gesture,

The life experience was fascinating I'm sure, and am glad for the author's sake he has been able to pass this bit of family history down to his children, but it is not exactly the perspective I was hoping for.
Passionate, powerful and profound, 'Aza Beast' is not only a personal account of the war in Bosnia but a professional observation of the roots of war in general and of humankind's slow odyssey toward treating those roots as the most dangerous disease of all.
Beautifully written, Murphy's book is both history and warning: the beast that stalked Auschwitz showed its face again in Bosnia, and is not yet dead, .