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Ending The Cycle of Violence

Voters in the Central African Republic are electing their next president today, hoping their votes will be part of a peaceful transition of power, for one of the first times in the country's conflict-plagued history. Louisa Lombard is a professor at Yale who has spent among the armed groups who fought out the civil war of recent years.

(Photo: A worker holds voter registration cards ahead the country's presidential elections. Credit: ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

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