Recent Articles
JUN 18, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Of Moonshots and Slingshots
Only if policy people and technologists work together better will we change the world in ways that are congruent with our most critical human needs ...
JUN 16, 2014 • Article
Do Global Networks Require "Cruise Directors"?
On April 30, 2014, Carnegie Council and the Melton Foundation convened a group of representatives of leading global networks to investigate and share best practices. Read about ...
JUN 16, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Now They're Cooking: SolSource Harnesses the Himalayan Sun
With a solar cooker designed through community consultation, two young innovators are delivering clean energy to remote mountain villages, as well as your backyard BBQ.
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Why Human Rights Are Called Human Rights
No one can engage in commerce when deprived of liberty or autonomy. No one can create or imagine or love when consumed by fear. We ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Drones and the Question of "The Human"
In our headlong embrace of drone technology, we are forgetting to ask two basic questions: What is a drone? And what does it mean that ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
The Future of the Human Rights Movement
More than twenty years have passed since the end of the cold war, and the time when people spoke in triumphal terms of the global ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Against a World Court for Human Rights
A World Court is not just an idea whose time has not yet come. The very idea fundamentally misconceives the nature of the challenges confronting ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
What Future for Human Rights?
The field of human rights covers many different beliefs, norms, institutions, and activities, and these may well have different futures. Some may flourish while others ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
State Sovereignty and International Human Rights
An increasingly robust international politics of human rights will provide valuable support to domestic advocates, help to impede backsliding, and in at least a few ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
The Future of Human Rights: A View from the United Nations
It is with respect to human rights that the UN has experienced some of its greatest shortcomings. The new "Rights up Front" plan may help ...