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Posted On: Mar 09, 2010
www.natowatch.orgJournalists and researchers writing about NATO need to be able to quickly find accurate and reliable information at their fingertips. Congressmen and women and members of the public need to keep up to date with developments in an Alliance that impacts on over 890 million citizens within the 28 Member States - a number that increases to 20 per cent of the global population when Partner ...
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Posted On: Feb 24, 2010
by COHA Research Fellow Alexandra DeprezThis Council on Hemispheric Affairs research paper, by COHA Research Fellow Alexandra Deprez, has been under preparation for a year. In it, she brilliantly synthesizes current developments regarding environmentally-driven human migration -and more specifically, migration caused by the environmental manifestations of anthropogenic climate change- which are capable of exposing their potential harmful effects in Central and South America, as well as ...
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Posted On: Feb 24, 2010
Background Reporting to the UNDP Administrator in her capacity as UNDG Chair, the Director has the overall responsibility to lead and manage the global UN Millennium Campaign in realizing its mandate from 2010-15. The UN Millennium Campaign is an inter-agency initiative created by the UN Secretary-General in 2002. The mandate of the Campaign is to create the political will required for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, within the broader remit of the Millennium De...
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Posted On: Feb 22, 2010
Position Summary The Development Department of the World Resources Institute (WRI) is seeking a dynamic, energetic, highly motivated person to fill the position of Development Coordinator. This position will provide programmatic and administrative support to staff managing government sector partnerships and funding (including U.S. government, foreign aid agencies, and multilateral organizations). This position provides a valuable growth opportunity to learn about environment and devel...
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Posted On: Jan 28, 2010
Michael Edwards, who many community members may recognize from his work with the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program, has published a book refuting the notion that a market approach will fix social problems. In Small Change: Why Buisness Won't Save the World, Edwards argues that the "operating values" of business are inadquate to address the root causes of major social ills. See the attached flyer for more details.
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Posted On: Jan 21, 2010
A briefing memo from the Project on Defense Alternatives. The United States faces Reagan-level deficit spending and greatly increased debt. Can the president's program of high defense spending and increased non-defense spending survive? This brief report puts recent and planned defense spending into the context of emerging fiscal constraints and President Obama's broader program of change. 11 charts and tables.
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Posted On: Jan 21, 2010
This Project on Defense Alternatives report analyzes the unprecedented post-1998 rise in defense spending and the return to Cold War budget levels. The causes include overly ambitious US military strategy and goals; weakness of reform and transformation efforts; failure to make hard choices in acquisition; and conduct of wars ill-suited to the US military. Also examined: the surge in military construction and the expanded role of private contractors. 75 pages with Executive Summary and 21 cha...
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Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
Senior Advocacy Strategist - Washington DCHuman Rights First (HRF), an organization that builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and works to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence, seeks a new Senior Advocacy Strategist.For more than 30 years, HRF has worked in the United States and abroad to create a more secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law.HRF protects people at ris...
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Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
Supervisor: The Executive Director is hired and supervised by the Jubilee USA Board of Directors. Location: Washington, D.C. Summary of Responsibilities: This is a key leadership position overseeing an organization of six staff. The organization is an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, international-development, environmental, labor, and community groups, and more than 20,000 individuals, working for the definitive cancellation of crushi...
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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010
The world's great conflicts of the future will revolve around what is now and will increasingly become the most valuable and vital commodity to the preservation and sustainability of life on earth--not oil or gas, neither gold nor diamonds, but water. From the arid reaches of the Middle East to African rivers being dammed by a generation of ill-considered moves by larcenous potentates to the rapidly melting Arctic icecap, World Policy Journal provides answers to the critical question of how...
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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010
Monthly newsletter focusing on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
Overspent and OverextendedWritten by Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Why is Washington spending so much on the military?The U.S. dominates the globe militarily. America's reach exceeds that of the Roman and British Empires at their respective heights. The threats facing the U.S. pale compared to its capabilities. So why is Washington spending so much on the military?The military budget is the price we pay for the nation's foreign policy. The U.S. currently is spending ne...
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
written by Robert A. LevyRobert A. Levy is chairman of the Cato Institute.Added to cato.org on January 7, 2010This article appeared in the on January 7, 2010. New York Daily NewsFollowing bitter defeats in California, Maine, and New York, the gay and lesbian community has a New Year's victory to celebrate. New Hampshire joins four other states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont — in legalizing gay marriage. And the nation's capital is also onboard. Washington Mayor Adrian Fen...
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
Posted by Daniel J. MitchellEven though I’ve been in Washington for almost 25 years, I still get shocked by the deceit and double-talk that characterizes this town. A perfect example can be found in today’s Wall Street Journal, which features a column by Karl Rove attacking President Obama for fiscal incontinence. I’m a big fan of condemning Obama’s big-government schemes, but Rove is the last person in the world who should be complaining about too much wasteful spending. After all, h...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN: Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy. As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style. Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent. You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did. But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit. And Nancy would anticipate that. You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement. So...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
Posted by Christopher PrebleThat is the question posed at the National Journal’s National Security experts blog.My response:We shouldn’t even be contemplating war in Yemen, but we should also understand that the proposed expansion of security assistance to the government there is likely to pay only meager dividends.Steven Metz gets at the nub of this problem in his two thoughtful posts (here and here). We have an unreliable ally. We have minimal capacity for making them more reliable....
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Untitled documentGlobal Washington announces a position opening for Communications and Administrative Coordinator.Organizational DescriptionGlobal Washington is a membership organization serving the global development sector. Global Washington has become a catalyst for strengthening the global development sector and its member organizations by leveraging resources, increasing visibility, sharing best practices, convening the sector by country, issue and organization type, and advocating...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
A December 2009 report from the Charity and Security Network describes how U.S. nonprofits are hindered from being an ally against violent extremism due to burdensome CTMs.
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Afghan civil society peacebuilding efforts are robust: a wide range of individuals and organizations are working to build bridges across social divides, to teach people peaceful ways of addressing conflicts, to promote rule of law and participatory governance, and to create democratic decision-making forums for addressing the root causes of conflicts.During her December 2009 visit to Afghanistan, 3D Director Lisa Schirch filmed 11 videos highlighting these efforts. Watch the videos and read...