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CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/4349639498/">Julien Harneis</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

Haiti Earthquake<br>Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37913760@N03/4275395512" target="_blank">United Nations Development Program</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target=_blank">CC</a>)

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 ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/4097699785/" target="_blank">U.S. Army</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>)

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 ...

Migration. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15388497@N02/3333084735/" target="_blank">Ariel Kaplan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>)

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 ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeacefinland/4172061502/">Greenpeace Finland</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aktivioslo/4174350023/">aktivioslo</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

DEC 16, 2009 Article

U.S-Russia Relations and the Arctic

This set of two papers, one by a Canadian and one by a Russian, focuses on U.S.-Russian competition and cooperation in the Arctic ...

DEC 16, 2009 Article

The Arctic: The Next "Hot Spot" of International Relations or a Region of Cooperation?

Dr. Morozov identifies several key points regarding both the existing problems and challenges of the Arctic region, as well as possible ways to overcome them ...