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APR 25, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Killer Robots: Toward the Loss of Humanity

Robots should not be allowed to make life and death decisions. These should stay firmly within the human purview.

People celebrating "Raahgiri Day," a car-free and pollution-free day in the streets of New Delhi, India.<br> CREDIT: Nidhi Gulati and Manisha Balani from <a href="http://bit.ly/1Qgn5IK" target="_blank">Project for Public Spaces</a>.

APR 22, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: What Makes a City Great? It's not the Liveability but the Loveability

A conversation about cities, suburbs, and the consequences of exporting the "Western" city model to the world with Ethan Kent, senior vice president of Project ...

APR 15, 2015 Journal

Ebola, Liberia, and the "Cult of Bankable Projects"

SHEFA SIEGEL Instead of addressing core issues of state failure, development aid continues pushing narrowly focused agendas that have little meaning in places where institutions ...

APR 14, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Ethics and the Iran Talks

Have the participants negotiated in good faith, with an intent to execute faithfully any and all obligations undertaken?

Emergency support to the Victorian flood relief effort (Australia). CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aus_defence_force/5391005835">Australian Department of Defense</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">CC</a>).

APR 8, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Smartification of Humanitarian Response

The "data revolution" is underway, ushering a smart era of humanitarian and development work.

CREDIT: Michael Wick via <a href="http://shutr.bz/1Gld3mG">Shutterstock</a>

APR 7, 2015 Article

ISIS is the Product of Muslim Humiliation and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East

Since the end of the Cold War, a third wave of geopolitics is starting to take hold in the Middle East, one that will be ...

Dove-origami consisting of the word "Peace" in different languages. CREDIT: <a href="http://shutr.bz/1PcsCzy" target="_blank">Azin V/Shutterstock</a>

APR 7, 2015 Article

Rethinking the Prevention Mandate of Peace NGOs: An EastWest Route

How can peace NGOs be more effective, both at preventing conflict and maintaining peace? Greg Austin of the EastWest Institute looks at the record of ...

APR 1, 2015 Journal

Spring 2015 (29.1)

This issue includes an essay by Shefa Siegel on “Liberia, Ebola, and the ‘Cult of Bankable Projects’”; a symposium on imagining a “Drone Accountability Regime,” ...

Campaign tent at a Jerusalam voting station, March 17, 2015. Text: "It's us or them. Just Likud. Just Netanyahu." <br>CREDIT: Gali Estrange via <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qdjvf4a">Shutterstock</a>

MAR 27, 2015 Article

It's the Fears not the Fear Mongering that We Should Focus On

"Instead of focusing on Netanyahu's fear mongering, let's focus on trying to assuage Israeli fears. Only then will Israelis vote for someone who really supports ...

MAR 25, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

EIA Podcast: Introducing the Spring 2015 Issue

In this podcast, EIA Senior Editor Zach Dorfman speaks with Carnegie Council Communications Director Madeleine Lynn on the spring 2015 issue of the journal.