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CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hleung/2108818972/">HKmPUA</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Greening of Islamic Politics

For centuries, Muslims considered Indonesia to be Islam's most distant outpost. Yet this diffuse country with multiple identities is leading the way in the greening ...

Former Nike Missile base, photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/telstar/49075174/" target=_blank>Telstar Logistics </a>

AUG 8, 2008 Article

The New MAD World

The current system may be Cold War Lite in which noncooperation is the new mutual assured destruction (MAD). Yet if we fail to cooperate, our ...

Detainees at Camp X-Ray. <br>DoD photo: Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy

AUG 6, 2008 Article

An American Detainee "Strategy"

Treatment of detainees has severely damaged America's reputation, yet there is still no true strategy for dealing with them as part of an overall counter-terrorism ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/riacale/1351747614/">Zack Lee</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 28, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly Could Drive Global Innovation

As a hinge between parliaments, civil society, the UN, and governments, a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly could become an important catalyst for the reform and ...

Icarus flew too close to the sun. Photo by <br><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/loriwright/185265674/">Lori Wright</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 23, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Fuel Costs Clip Airline Wings

The rising price of jet fuel has the global airline industry struggling to cut costs and stay aloft, but it also incentivizes the development of ...

Lost Celtic Tiger. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jaqian/308499768/">jaqian</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Is the Celtic Tiger Dead?

Nearly twenty-five years of Irish economic growth came to an end in June. Now policymakers must scramble to prevent a return to the hopeless, stagnant ...

Hotel Rwanda movie poster.

JUL 14, 2008 Article

Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Hotel Rwanda"

Based on the true story of a Rwandan hotel manager who saved the lives of over 1,200 refugees during the 1994 genocide, this film points blame at ...

An AIDS awareness poster in Zambia <br>encourages abstinence. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mvcorks/148239163/">Matt <br>Corks</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 8, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Preserving PEPFAR

President George W. Bush is fighting to preserve his controversial AIDS relief initiative, which has supported life-saving antiretroviral treatments for more than 1.7 million people since 2004.

Lots of natural light at the <br>New Belgium Brewery. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/smason/35596350/">Sean Mason</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 1, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Green Beer

Once reserved for St. Patrick's Day, green beer is now available year round in the form of more ecologically sound beers. Companies across the globe ...

"Interfaith," Design by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaxzine/492625997/" target=_blank>vaXzine</a>

JUL 1, 2008 Article

In Search of Common Ground: The Role of a Global Ethic in Inter-Religious Dialogue

Initiatives such as "A Common Word Between Us" and Hans Küng's Global Ethic may mark the beginning of constructive dialogue between the West and ...