Could training young women how to stay safe on their mobiles have helped us find the kidnapped Nigerian girls?
It's easy to take a wrong turn in Beirut After a couple of beers in the tourist district of Hamra in Beirut last November, I felt like taking a walk across town to Gemaizeh, a vibrant street lined with cozy bars and good music. Detoured by a checkpoint in the dark, I lost my sense of direction and found myself in an area that felt just ‘different’. Instead of people chatting in the street there were men, only men, smoking shisha pipes in silence and eyeing me critically. I’d not noticed the black flags surrounding this little enclave and had walked into a very dangerous part of town, and it felt like it. But what can we actually DO? Unexpectedly stepping into danger zones can happen anywhere, and the sudden sense of vulnerability can rapidly induce panic. In Beirut there's an under-current of tension because you know it's not safe, and it must have been the same for the girls in Northern Nigeria who ended up being kidnapped by Boko Haram and tagged #Brin...
