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Jeb Sharp

I joined the staff of The World in 1998 and have done almost every job in the newsroom since: reporter, producer, podcaster, backup host, show runner, special correspondent and now editor. Clearly I can't get enough of the place. I have reported for the show from Belgium, Bosnia, Canada, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Haiti, Gaza, Israel, Kosovo, the Netherlands, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, the UK and across the US. I’ve received some nice honors along the way: a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, two Overseas Press Club awards for “History of Iraq” and “How Wars End,” a Dart Award for “Rape as a Weapon of War, ” and a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for “Rwanda: Trying to Move On.”  
End of War, Part 5: The Bosnian War
End of War, Part 4: The Gulf War
End of war, part 3: World War I 
The end of war, Part II: America’s Civil War
The end of war, Part 1: The Iraq War
man in a helicopter
Conflict
How wars end: Revisiting our series about one of the most difficult aspects of war
A crew chief completes a post flight inspection of a Predator drone on Sept. 15, 2004 at Balad Air Base, Iraq.
Conflict
How drones and robotics may shape the future of conflict under President Trump
Site of drone strike
Justice
How the Obama administration’s drone program normalized targeted killing
Maisam Hosseini and his teacher
Education
What it’s like to learn a second language when you can’t read and write in your first
A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits in a hanger at Creech Air Force Base May 19, 2016. The base in Nevada is the hub for the military’s unmanned aircraft operations in the United States.
Conflict
For Rosa Brooks, how drones turned from the abstract to the stuff of nightmares
hand holds up magazine with Barack Obama on cover, with Obama nearby
Global Politics
How Barack Obama convinced many African immigrants that their vote matters
Esu Alemseged and Daniel Aschale
Sports
These runners from Ethiopia take inspiration from Boston Marathon’s defending champion
Still image from film "Jahar"
Conflict
Two young filmmakers grapple with their high school memories of the Boston marathon bomber
Radovan Karadzic
Conflict
20 years later, a genocide conviction for architect of the war in Bosnia
Geraldine Henneghien
Conflict
‘It’s the whole family that is destroyed’
Ismaël Saidi
Conflict
‘We were just waiting for the storm to come’
Brussels
Conflict
Today, I’m mourning with Brussels
Ismaël Saidi
Conflict
‘For the non-Muslims, it was like I opened a door for them’
Youssef Kamand
Conflict
He’s just the kind of new citizen Europe wants — but Europe isn’t making it easy for him
VUB campus Etterbeek
Education
A Belgian campus puts out a welcome mat for refugees
Emi Mahmoud
Conflict
Emtithal Mahmoud and the poetry of resilience
The Stipanovic family
Conflict
They fled war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and found stability in Boston
Nidderdale
Culture
On ‘The Wind in the Willows’ and going home
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
Arts
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ new show explores Cuba’s sugar trade and her own exile
Alvaro DaSilva
Economics
Delivering newspapers is tough work, but it allows this immigrant to work two jobs and keep his kids in a good school district
Luna Acharya Mulder
Conflict
‘Nobody knows their story’ — A psychologist gives her refugee people a voice
Frances Esparza
Education
This champion of bilingualism remembers her mother’s stories of being paddled in school for speaking Spanish
Fatuma Ibrahim at her high school graduation in August 2015
Education
She survived hunger and homelessness. Then she had to figure out her identity.
Michaela Bauer and Richard Bishop and their sons
Conflict
One family’s decision to take in refugees: ‘We’re all in the same boat’
Imad Karkotli in his shop in Brussels
Conflict
He imports the most amazing product from Damascus, but worries ‘Syrian’ on his shopfront scares away customers
Habib, 57, and his daughter Rama, 12, live in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels.
Conflict
Terrorists in their midst: Residents of a Brussels neighborhood now know
Nasser Weddady in Brussels
Conflict
‘We’re in a generational fight…on a par with the struggle against communism or Nazism’
Children attend a candlelight vigil in the town square in Molenbeek, a neighborhood in Brussels with ties to the alleged perpetrators of the Paris attacks.
Conflict
At a vigil in a Brussels neighborhood, residents proclaim ‘We are not all terrorists here’
Students march at Stellenbosch University earlier this year
Education
A South African university sheds the language of apartheid
Yamila Pastorino and Joana Dos Santos
Education
A community college that found a way not to charge these DREAMers extra for school
Ina Resnikoff, academic counsellor and learning specialist at North Shore Community College, with her student Osarumwense Agbonsalo, an immigrant from Nigeria
Education
Easy access to community college is a boon to immigrant students starting out in the US
Maria Jaakkola at a screening of her video about Boston's Emerald Necklace
Environment
A Finnish landscape architect tries to connect the broken pieces of Boston’s Emerald Necklace
Middle school teacher Jenny Chung was wounded by shrapnel in the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.
Health
Resilience: This Boston Marathon bombing survivor could teach a course on it
A magnetically levitating (maglev) train operated by Central Japan Railway
Economics
How to bring high-speed trains to the US
The 17th Street Canal breach in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Environment
Ten years later, the lessons of Hurricane Katrina apply to all of us
Atyia Martin
Environment
This woman’s job is to make Boston stronger
The contents of an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat)
Books
How combat rations got into your kid’s lunchbox
Betty Maynard (L) hugs her friend Cindy Atterton beside a growing memorial at the Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee July 17, 2015. Four U.S. Marines were killed on Thursday by a suspected gunman the FBI has confirmed as Mohammod Youssuf
Conflict
How Chattanooga and Charleston are the same
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty at the White House, on December 8 1987.
Conflict
Iran, arms control and a lesson from my mother
The full moon rises over the Swiss Alps
Lifestyle
A mother, a daughter, a song
Flag waves in front of Supreme Court Gay Marriage
Global Politics
Which countries will follow America in legalizing gay marriage?
Survivor Rebekah Gregory arrives before the formal sentencing of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts June 24, 2015.
Justice
Boston Marathon bomber apologizes at sentencing hearing
Neha Narula just finished her PhD at MIT. She says early mentoring was essential to her career in computer science.
Education
For women in computer science, a little mentoring goes a long way
Eighth grade teachers and students at the Putnam Avenue Upper School in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education
Here’s what eighth graders can teach us about perpetuating stereotypes
Nepali students at the University of Massachusetts Boston work on their fundraising plan for earthquake relief efforts
Development
Nepali students in Boston channel their grief into fundraising efforts for earthquake relief
Harout Bassmajian in the family store, Arax Market, in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Conflict
Even after a century, the Armenian genocide is a cornerstone of Armenian identity
Divest Harvard Co-Founder Chloe Maxmin became an activist at age 12
Environment
Activists go up against Drew Faust as Harvard refuses to divest carbon
Women hold up signs during an International Women's Day rally in Lahore, March 8, 2015. Reuters/Mohsin Raza
Global Politics
What should the world do next for equal rights for women?
University of Cape Town students.
Culture
Here’s how South African students talk about race and gender
Trader Nono Dawane greets customers at her shop selling cigarettes and cold drinks, in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township.
Culture
South Africa is a ‘less equal place’ now than under apartheid, author says
Nobom Ntsuntswana (right) supervises a sewing project at the skills training center where she works in Cape Town.
Development
Despite hardships, this South African woman won’t ‘let the devil steal my joy’
Nora Suselo (R) and her mother Gladys, domestic workers in Cape Town, South Africa.
Justice
South Africa’s tradition of domestic work continues post-apartheid
The Mraqisa family (L to R): father Lindela, son Bukho, daughter Ongeziwe and mother Nosicelo outside their home in Gugulethu Township.
Development
These South African men tackle violence against women — starting with themselves
Sheryl Ozinsky, one of the founders of the Oranjezicht City Farm in Cape Town, selling produce at the Saturday market.
Development
‘You can’t be a sissy to live in Africa’
Janap Masoet outside her sister Niesa Bosch’s house in Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap neighborhood.
Justice
In a beautiful part of Cape Town, these sisters still miss a home apartheid took away