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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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends anniversary of Kievan Rus in Kiev, Ukraine.<br>CREDIT: <a href= "http://tinyurl.com/kclt6ff">Slavko Sereda via Shutterstock</a>

MAR 23, 2015 Article

Russia's Orthodox Soft Power

Russia's values are often overlooked, or treated simplistically as the antithesis of Western values. We should understand that the close relationship between the Orthodox Church ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitratzanos/4582405583">Dimitra Tzanos</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>).

MAR 23, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Africa's Rising GDP Numbers

African countries are recalculating their gross domestic products to include previously unaccounted economic activities. Is it a strategy of these countries to market themselves or ...

MAR 23, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Terminator Ethics: Should We Ban “Killer Robots”?

JEAN-BAPTISTE JEANGÈNE VILMER Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems are the subject of significant debate, and certain NGOs are demanding their preventive prohibition. But these systems ...

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MAR 16, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Shakespeare on the Shop Floor

A pioneering organization is using literature to enable other sorts of conversations at the workplace—the types of conversations that successful companies need to have.

Miriam, the diagnostic tool created by the <a href="http://miroculus.com/" target="_blank">Miroculus</a> team.

MAR 11, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Bye, Doctor, Hi, "Cloud"

A team of entrepreneurs based in San Francisco is turning the out-of-date diagnostic industry upside down.

MAR 11, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of the Senate Letter and Iran Talks

In the United States, executive agreements—that is, arrangements made with other states that are not treaties subject to Senate ratification—exist in a gray ...