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AUG 15, 2014 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rose Niu: Conservation on the Tipping Point

Conservation in China is a long-term struggle that has only intensified with rapid economic growth. To bring degraded ecosystems back, the country needs ambitious plans ...

AUG 13, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Yazidis, Airstrikes and the Ethics of Limited Action

More Yazidis may survive than if the U.S. had done nothing at all, but beyond airstrikes, the U.S. does not appear prepared to ...

Enisa, a multiple-rape survivor from the Bosnian war, left, with Majda Prljaca, communications officer for the UN Population Fund in Sarajevo.  © Armin Smailović

AUG 7, 2014 Article

Helpless Bosnia and Its Women, 20 Years After Ethnic War

Carnegie Council Trustee Barbara Crossette looks at courageous women who have gone from victims of the Bosnian War (1992-1995) to heroines. Yet many foresee a ...

Decision. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/8275165638">Thomas Hawk</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 4, 2014 Article

Toward Understanding Our World's Moral Landscape: Carnegie Council's Centennial Projects on a "Global Ethic"

As part of its Centennial activities, Carnegie Council launched several projects, including the Global Ethical Dialogues and Thought Leaders Forum, to explore the concept of ...

Roma Community, Romania. CREDIT: <a href="http://bit.ly/1xLVcfD"> World Bank </a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 2, 2014 Article

Modern Europe's Roma: Still Denied Social Justice

Despite sustained EU efforts to develop a vigorous Roma inclusion policy, the vast majority of the 10–12 million strong European Roma remain severely marginalized, frequent targets ...

JUL 31, 2014 Article

Carnegie’s Vision for Peace: WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Interviews Joel Rosenthal

Transcript of an interview on The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC.  “A little over 100 years ago, in February of 1914, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie started an organization ...

JUL 23, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Upcoming Conferences of Interest: Fall & Winter 2014

These are some upcoming conferences the editors believe readers of the journal may interested in attending.

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JUL 22, 2014 Article

Japan’s "'76ers" Gain Global Attention: New Liberal Elite Can Change Japan

In this "Nikkei Business" interview, Carnegie Council Senior Fellow discusses his research on Japan's generation known as "76ers"--i.e. those born around 1976. He talked ...

JUL 22, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of Weapons Transfers: Ukraine and the Fate of MH-17

The tragic destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in the skies over Eastern Ukraine has once again raised the question about the degree of responsibility the ...

JUL 16, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

July 1914: Sean McMeekin on the Outbreak of World War I

Prior to WWI, says McMeekin, no one in Europe or elsewhere in the world—except the perpetrators—had any inkling that an avoidable act of ...