JUN 29, 2006 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Human Rights Must Be a Consideration for Economic Development Organizations
It is often argued that organizations that deal with economic development should avoid human rights issues because the two topics are distinct. This argument holds ...
!["No human being, whether in solitude or in mass assembled, should be entirely trusted."](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/MichaelNovak_2023-04-10-055726_aklv.jpg?v=1721237252)
JUL 30, 1977 • Article
An Underpraised and Undervalued System
Novak invokes what he calls the creed of democratic capitalism: "(a) individual freedom and the methods of trial-and-error; (b) the innate selfishness and corruptibility of ...
![Tottenham Court Road, London, 1927. Via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tottenham_Court_road_in_London_1927.jpg">Wikimedia</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Tottenham_Court_road_in_London_1927_2023-04-10-055736_joed.jpg?v=1721244144)
JUL 15, 1974 • Article
Reinhold Niebuhr's Personal Reflections on Britain, 1920s-1940s
In this piece, unpublished during his lifetime, the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reminisces about significant British personalities he knew well, in particular Sir Stafford Cripps, ...
![Desmond Tutu, 2011. CREDIT: Jmquez via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oyw_desmond.JPG">Wikipedia</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC</a>)](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/15597/DesmondTutu_2023-04-10-055709_uvfx.jpg?v=1721237237)
DEC 3, 1984 • Article
The Bishop and South Africa: An Interview with Desmond Tutu
"I am glad I'm not a Westerner; I am glad I'm not white; I am glad I'm not civilized, if civilized means doing the kind ...
![Carrie Chapman Catt. Carnegie Council archives.](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Carrie-Chapman-Catt_featurebox_2023-03-03-053122_wuyd.jpg?v=1721240908)
JAN 4, 1970 • Article
Fighting for a Lasting Peace
In the mid-1920s the Church Peace Union and international organization it created, the World Alliance for International Friendship, campaigned hard for a lasting peace.
![Sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C., February 2, 1960. </br> CREDIT: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.08095/">Library of Congress</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/lunchcountersitin_2023-03-03-053114_lvhr.jpg?v=1721240888)
JAN 7, 1970 • Article
America's Minority Problems
In 1960, the editors of WORLDVIEW Magazine argued that the freedom and democracy that United States leaders were espousing abroad during the Cold War were not ...
![Pearl Harbor, 1941. <a href="http://bit.ly/1tZ16dX">U.S. National Archives & Records</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Attack-PearlHarbor_2023-04-10-055814_eier.jpg?v=1721240901)
JAN 5, 1970 • Article
The Churches, The War and The Peace
This statement was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Church Peace Union (now Carnegie Council) on January 15, 1942. It was also published in the World ...
MAY 20, 2005 • News
Council to Host Fellows Presentations in Mid-June
Carnegie Council hosts presentations by 2004-2005 fellows on the findings of their year-long research projects.