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Gregory Holyoke

Caught in the crossfire of war, a community in Ethiopia keeps preaching peace

This tiny utopian community in Ethiopia's Amhara region has spent decades championing equality, peace, and pacifism. Today, it lives under the shadow of civil war in the area.

The Arwa Amba is a pacifist pocket of around 500-600 people nestled in the northern mountains of Amhara, over 550 kilometres from the capital, Addis Ababa.

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