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Lessons Learned 100 Years After the Assassination that Triggered World War I

A picture taken on August 1,2013 shows graves at Notre Dame de Lorette's necropolis at the World War One military cemetery in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, northern France.
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Kosovars wave Albanian flags while celebrating after declaring their independence from Serbia in Pristina, Kosovo, on Feb. 17 2008. As of early 2009, only 58 out of the 192 United Nations sovereign member states recognize Kosovo's independence, and the UN Security Council remains divided on the issue.

(Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)

The imprint remains of a Kosovar Albanian burned by Serbian forces in Drenica, Kosovo, June 29, 1999.

(Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)

A policeman on the Peace bridge that divides the Kosovar Albanian side from the Kosovar Serbian side. In addition to KFOR troops the bridge is manned by police from the Albanian and Serbian side.

(Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)

Serbian residents of North Mitrovica protest the new independence of Kosovo in 2008.

(Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)

A copy shot of the Latin Bridge where the assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand took place on June 28th,1914.

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The Latin Bridge where the assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand took place on June 28th 1914.
The Latin Bridge where the assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand took place on June 28th 1914. (Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)
The Latin Bridge where the assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand took place on June 28th 1914.
The Latin Bridge where the assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand took place on June 28th 1914. (Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)
(Emily Judem/The GroundTruth Project)

Soldiers and Paramilitaries - Bosnian soldiers smoke and take a break on the frontline next to a sign that says 'welcome to Sarajevo' in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in the fall of 1994.  Trench warfare was fought all around the city of Sarajevo.

(Ron Haviv/VII/The GroundTruth Project)
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