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Bwogger Jon Hill was perusing The New Vision -- Uganda's leading website! -- and noticed that your Columbia is opening up a peace institute in Gulu, located in the Gulu District of Uganda.

The University is partnering with five NGOs (including UNICEF and the Christian Children's Fund, among others) to open the Institute, which will be located in Gulu High School.

According to Paul Kellner, a researcher at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, the institute is designed to teach conflict solving skills.


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Previously, on the Joy Luck Book Club: Marisha Pessl's merits as author and as hottie were debated. In this week's episode, certified hottie Dave Eggers presents What is the What, and the J.L.B.C. convenes, gin cocktails in hand, to their secret clubhouse somewhere in the outer boroughs...

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Dan: Dave Eggers is famous for two things: the painfully earnest magazine McSweeney's and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a wonderful book that I can barely recall. (That's the one with the brother and The Real World audition, right?) What is the What represents both a return to the literary spotlight and something of a return to form for Eggers - after two little-read works of fiction, he's once again bending genres with a novelized autobiography told by Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee.


dfgCool trip alert: Bwog alumnus and liveblogging pioneer Bryan Mochizuki, along with a passel of current Columbia students, just touched down in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where the group will be filming the work of NGOs to spread awareness of development issues in the East Afican nation. Follow their adventures here.

Are you on an international expedition? Or know anyone else who's fled the country for the summer? Let us know at bwgossip@columbia.edu.

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Not to be outdone, Madonna has hopped on the African-orphan-hugging bandwagon with a $3 million donation to J. Sachs' Millennium Voices foundation, which will help villages in the malaria-infested African nation of Malawi. The rocker chalks up her newfound generosity to having had kids of her own, as well as the giving spirit of Jewish mysticism--a new orphan care center will have programs based on Spirituality for Kids, the Kabbalah children's program.

Sachs chides celebrity-shy critics: "Of course there are no doubt people who on a fling say something, but that's not what Madonna's doing, it's not what Angelina's doing, it's not what Bono's doing...the cynics are just wrong. They don't get it."

Bwog cheers! And wants the Olsen twins to be next.

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