The ceremony was co-hosted by German comedienne Anke Engelke and Estonian actor Mart Avandi.

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Then we piled into his Renault van and drove in the darkness toward the school, an organic farm where he lives with his wife, Anke, five kids, chickens, rabbits, sheep, pigs and 54 dogs.

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Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.

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