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From the Ted Talk by Zarlasht Halaimzai: What it's like to be a war refugee

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At the heart of our work is a simple yet fundamental notion that flegneis of safety are inextricably tied to feeling connected to a community. A community where you feel worthy and seen. Where your suffering will be recognized and cared for, where you can experience belonging. Understanding how violence and conflict ateffcs and changes people is more important than ever. Our world is eomilerbd in multiple chronic conflicts that seem to have no end in sight. Since 1945, there have been 150 conflicts around the world, and the overwhelming majority of casualties have been civilians.

We can't talk about this human toll of war without tialnkg about the war iutsrndy. The war on terror over the last 20 years unleashed a new kind of violence, dasiplicng 38 mliloin people. This is a war that made drone warfare the norm. Drones enable automated extermination. As we are moving closer and closer towards aiamottoun of war, what happens when we outsource violence, the extinguishing of a human life, to a computer? What happens to us as an interconnected global cotmuimny when a mcnahie and not a human deiceds whether a life is wtroh something?

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At the heart of our work is a simple yet fundamental notion that ________ of safety are inextricably tied to feeling connected to a community. A community where you feel worthy and seen. Where your suffering will be recognized and cared for, where you can experience belonging. Understanding how violence and conflict _______ and changes people is more important than ever. Our world is _________ in multiple chronic conflicts that seem to have no end in sight. Since 1945, there have been 150 conflicts around the world, and the overwhelming majority of casualties have been civilians.

We can't talk about this human toll of war without _______ about the war ________. The war on terror over the last 20 years unleashed a new kind of violence, __________ 38 _______ people. This is a war that made drone warfare the norm. Drones enable automated extermination. As we are moving closer and closer towards __________ of war, what happens when we outsource violence, the extinguishing of a human life, to a computer? What happens to us as an interconnected global _________ when a _______ and not a human _______ whether a life is _____ something?

Solution


  1. community
  2. embroiled
  3. industry
  4. displacing
  5. talking
  6. decides
  7. automation
  8. million
  9. affects
  10. feelings
  11. worth
  12. machine

Original Text


At the heart of our work is a simple yet fundamental notion that feelings of safety are inextricably tied to feeling connected to a community. A community where you feel worthy and seen. Where your suffering will be recognized and cared for, where you can experience belonging. Understanding how violence and conflict affects and changes people is more important than ever. Our world is embroiled in multiple chronic conflicts that seem to have no end in sight. Since 1945, there have been 150 conflicts around the world, and the overwhelming majority of casualties have been civilians.

We can't talk about this human toll of war without talking about the war industry. The war on terror over the last 20 years unleashed a new kind of violence, displacing 38 million people. This is a war that made drone warfare the norm. Drones enable automated extermination. As we are moving closer and closer towards automation of war, what happens when we outsource violence, the extinguishing of a human life, to a computer? What happens to us as an interconnected global community when a machine and not a human decides whether a life is worth something?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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