Searching Among the Wounded

In 2011 Inclusive Security sat down in Lahore, Pakistan with Bushra Hyder, a peace educator who lives in the volitile region along the Afghanistan border, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Since her school is located across the street from the local hospital, she has seen the full impact of violence on her society. Here she relates the story of one mother she found she could not help because she “could not even console her,” when Ms. Hyder and the woman searched for the woman’s husband after a particularly brutal bomb blast.

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