Uganda, 2008

At the heart of Africa, Uganda has itself been ravaged by a brutal civil war, and the small country shares borders with Sudan, Congo, Rwanda and Kenya. Its Rangers patrol these borders and protect internal peace.

Kurdistan, 2007

It is home to the world's oldest settlements, and borders Turkey, Armenia, Persia and Arabia but is none of these. It is Eastern Anatolia. It is Kurdistan.

East Timor, 2006

The acronym used by the United Nations and international aid organisations for refugees within their own country is IDP. This stands for ‘internally displaced persons’. The term exists because what such people essentially are--refugees—before the law can only be those who sought refuge from whatever situation in another country, across some border. Therefore people who flee their homes and seek shelter within the borders of their own country are not refugees in front of the law but IDPs--they become an acronym.

In East Timor’s capital of Dili this bureaucratic fact turned into harsh reality when two thirds of the city’s population was scared, burnt or looted out of its home into refugee camps spread all over Dili in 2005 and 2006. And no, the camps were not called IDP camps, they were real refugee camps. The only difference between these here and those in other desperate parts of the world was that these people were refugees in camps located just a couple of hundred meters away from their destroyed homes.

Northern Ireland, 2006

Northern Ireland's peace is shaky, proven by the countless Murals across the country's towns and cities.

Colombia, 2005

Colombia is a violent beauty and the country is perhaps best described by a Colombian saying. When God created the world, he made Colombia the most beautiful place on earth. When he was finished creating the planet, he felt bad for the rest of the world so to make up for his mistake, he filled Colombia with Colombians.