Recent Articles
JAN 22, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Right to Move
A collection of essays from our joint Sophia University-Carnegie Council conference exploring the ethics of an international right to migration.
JAN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Cosmopolitanism as Virtue
Without high levels of migration, and a related ethical commitment to cosmopolitanism, nation-states will fail to develop the individual and collective virtues suitable to "living ...
JAN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Capabilities Approach and Collective Ownership of the Earth
If people of a particular country are using more than their proportionate share of the collectively owned planet, they should allow for immigration.
JAN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Precarious Lives
If existing refugee protection and international humanitarian regimes are already under serious strain, how can global cooperation be extended for the protection of vulnerable persons ...
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 ...