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FEB 15, 2012 • Article
North Korea: The World's Principal Violator of Responsibility to Protect
The 2005 UN World Summit made a landmark commitment to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. Has North Korea violated ...
FEB 14, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: U.S. Free Trade Agreement Won't Benefit Colombia
The now-official U.S.–Colombia Free Trade Agreement will dampen growth and make it harder for Colombia to put in place policies for innovation and ...
FEB 13, 2012 • Article
Why Are We Surprised at Egypt's Backlash against Foreign NGOs?
The outrage over Egypt's arrest of 43 NGO workers, at least 16 of whom are American, is understandable and well deserved. But it also speaks to a ...
FEB 8, 2012 • Article
The Varieties of Protest Experience: How Accountability Gaps Link the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street
Can the recent eruption of protests be interpreted as a single phenomenon, even though spread out across great distances and separated by barriers of language ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
2nd Prize Postgraduate and Teacher Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
We've developed an understanding of "sustainability" that indicates that we can "switch" to something else and be okay, but the hard truth that no politician ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
Honorable Mention,Undergraduate Category, "Making A Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
Third world countries pose a unique challenge; how to keep up with the world's environmental changes while still taking care of people living below the ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
Honorable Mention, High School Category, "Making A Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
Sustainability is often associated with exclusively material concepts. Yet it's crucial to note that sustainability plays a critical role in relationships. The actual subject in ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
3rd Prize Undergraduate Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
"What is an ecologically sustainable community? How do we facilitate the evolution of such communities? Can we bring the mass of our consumer culture-driven population ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
1st Prize Undergraduate Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
Our conventional understanding of sustainability usually puts human needs first. What is needed is a balancing test that will consider a wider range of factors, ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
1st Prize Postgraduate and Teacher Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
My students are always shocked to realize that the global environment is one interconnected system. We have only one ocean mass, one land, and one ...