After fleeing Paris for the French Alps, our writer explains why, even in fearful times, life goes on Janine di Giovanni is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
Her latest book, “The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches From Syria” has been translated into 30 languages. Follow her on Twitter @janinedigi In 2012, I gave a TED talk about how wars start.
I described the velocity of the moments when the normality of life suddenly rearranges itself. One minute, your life is your own.
It is normal. You are free. And then a war is at your doorstep. And nothing is ever the same again. I gave the example of a Bosnian friend, on her way to work at a bank, in her pretty miniskirt.