Recent Articles
JAN 20, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reconciling an Ethical Immigration Policy with the Nation-state Myth
Don't we, as collective owners and stewards of the Earth, have a basic right to move? Indeed, the right to move is necessary to realize ...
JAN 20, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Ethics of Language Choice in Immigration
Should language rights be understood as collective rights or individual rights? Do language rights entail active endorsement of immigrant languages on the part of the ...
JAN 19, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Developing a Reconciliation Indicator
A composite indicator is needed to substantiate the impact of community-led reconciliation processes and to better target sustainable development aid in post-conflict zones.
JAN 19, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Immigration as a Source of Renewal in Japan
Despite the many potential benefits of more immigration in Japan -- economic, cultural, global -- the country is likely to do little more than tinker ...
JAN 19, 2010 • Article
Five Myths of Disaster Relief
As they rush to save lives in the wake of the Haiti earthquake, aid workers also must address myths about disaster relief among the American ...
JAN 19, 2010 • Article
Obama and God
As President Obama completes his first year in office, little attention has been given to a question that sparked raucous argument during the campaign. How ...
JAN 19, 2010 • Article
Obama and God
As President Obama completes his first year in office, little attention has been given to a question that sparked raucous argument during the campaign. How ...
JAN 6, 2010 • Article
Defining a Right to Move?
Beyond the ethical and practical arguments for immigration reform, the strongest case for an internationally recognized right to move may arise out of the "worst-case ...
DEC 17, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Changing the Tide for Small Island Nations
A Tobin Tax on financial transactions could generate significant funds for climate change adaptation in vulnerable island states while also helping to stabilize the global ...
DEC 17, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Ending War in Our Lifetimes?
President Obama will need to discard old foreign policy doctrines and steer with a more global moral compass to meet the vision of eradicating war ...