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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: Dec 23, 2009
by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Afghanistan is the sort of country which humanitarian-minded people understandably want to "fix." It has become a target of aggressive pro-war activists ranging from neoconservatives who believe in remaking other societies at gunpoint to feminists who believe in waging war to improve the status of women.The latter group belies the common assumption that the Left opposes war. While the Right traditionally resisted imperialistic social engi...
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Posted On: Nov 05, 2009
The National Security Network (NSN), the political voice of the progressive national security community, is filling two positions for its policy team. Our policy unit comprises 3-4 individuals who report to the Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer and who work as a team to advance progressive national security policies with Administration policy makers, Members of Congress and their aides, political campaigns, the think tank and advocacy communities, and the media. Team members will ...
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Posted On: Oct 15, 2009
The two-decade-old conflict in Somalia has entered a new phase, which presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the United States. To best encourage peace in the devastated country, Washington needs a new strategy that takes into account hard-learned lessons from multiple failed U.S. interventions.In a new study, author David Axe argues that Washington should err on the side of nonintervention, and recommends:The Obama administration should work to build a regional framework for reconc...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Posted On: Sep 30, 2009
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP) is a global network established by civil society organizations to promote and implement the RtoP norm. The ICRtoP Secretariat is hosted by WFM - Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP). For more information on the Coalition and WFM-IGP, please go our websites: www.responsibilitytoprotect.org and www.wfm-igp.org. Location: New ...
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Posted On: Sep 28, 2009
This op-ed originally appeared on Huffington Post on September 28, 2009.By Colin Thomas-JensenHow do you defeat a dangerous insurgent group that has embedded itself within a civilian population? This vexing question is at the center of the ongoing debate over the counterinsurgency approach in Afghanistan--a conversation that plays itself out at the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department, on Capital Hill, and through a seemingly endless herd of pundits on cable news shows, op-ed p...
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Posted On: Sep 18, 2009
In the fall issue of World Policy Journal, from inside the Iranian power elite, Kayhan Barzegar, a senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, offers the unique perspective of the determination of Iran's leadership to develop a "nuclear capability." In a Q&A with the editors, Hans Blix, the veteran International Atomic Energy Agency monitor and strategic thinker, answers some hard questions about whether a move toward a world without nuclear weapons...
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Posted On: Sep 18, 2009
The State Department compiled this list of priority treaties that are currently pending on the calendar of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source:
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Posted On: Jul 23, 2009
Citizens for Global Solutions is seeking an Outreach Director to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The successful candidate must have a bachelor's degree and a demonstrated interest in international issues, politics, and nonprofit organizations. We are looking for candidates who possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, the ability to work collaboratively, experience working with nonprofits or lawmakers, and enthusiasm for our organization's goals. Candidates w...
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Posted On: Jul 16, 2009
July 16, 2009By John Prendergast and Noel AtamaThe world’s deadliest war and most pronounced use of rape as a weapon continue to rage in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. For 13 years, the people of eastern Congo have been ensnared in a tangled web of armed groups—from foreign rebels to the Congo’s own army—who prey on Congolese civilians and, with collaboration from governments and multinational corporations, strip the country of its immense natural wealth. This conflict ...
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Posted On: Jul 13, 2009
The Summer 2009 World Policy Journal is available online for free for the month of July. Challenges to human security do not often make it to the front pages, but quiet and often unreported injustices and deprivations rob societies of opportunity, drive families to flee their homes, and push nations into war. If you enjoy the articles, please support WPJ by subscribing at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/wopj
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Posted On: Jun 16, 2009
By Doug BandowThe United Nations and human rights do not belong in the same sentence. Last Wednesday the UN Human Rights Council praised Cuba's human rights achievements. The Council was far more concerned about the U.S. embargo against Cuba than the Cuban government's brutality towards its own people.The UN long has claimed to represent the greatest aspirations of humanity, running back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was approved more than six decades ago. But the UN's C...
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Posted On: Jun 03, 2009
Doug Bandow authored an op-ed on America, Islam and religious persecution: "Obama's interfaith dialogue: Let's talk persecution"
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Posted On: Jun 03, 2009
by Ian Vasquez"We don't want Venezuela to become a totalitarian communist state," declared Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa yesterday in Caracas at the opening of a major conference organized by the market-liberal think tank, CEDICE. I'm in Venezuela this week with my Cato colleagues Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Gabriela Calderon to participate in the event and to run a seminar for 60 students and young leaders from Venezuela, which took place earlier this week.Vargas Llosa's concern is not ab...
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Posted On: May 28, 2009
U.S. Program Director Atlas Service Corps Washington, DC Atlas Corps is seeking a U.S. Program Director to help manage its training program for nonprofit leaders from the global south. Atlas Corps is an international fellowship program that trains leaders, strengthens organizations, and promotes innovation in the nonprofit sector through an international network of mid-career professionals addressing critical global issues. The U.S. Program Director has primary responsibility for the logisti...
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Posted On: May 13, 2009
Free Professional and Academic Networking Site in Conflict Resolution, Peace Studies, Human Rights, International Development, Gender, Civil Society Development, and more This is an invitation to join Peace and Collaborative Development Network (http://internationalpeaceandconflict.org) , an online initiative to bring together professionals, academics and students involved in Conflict Res...
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Posted On: May 13, 2009
THE PEACE MEDIA CLEARINGHOUSE - visit http://peacemedia.usip.org and - Find documentaries, films, shows, podcasts, songs, video games, and other multimedia about peace and conflict management. - Use them in your work as educators, trainers, practitioners, policy makers, or students. - Explore a wide range of topics, such as conflict prevention, nonviolence, post-conflict reconstruction, refugees, child soldiers, rule ...
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Posted On: May 12, 2009
May 12, 2009By Julia Spiegel and Noel Atama1 Operation Lightning Thunder did not end the threat of the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, and it sparked harsh reprisals by the LRA against civilians in Congo. Yet, it would be an even greater tragedy for civilians if key states in the region and the international community lost their collective will to end the threat of the LRA once and for all. What is needed now is a second Ugandan-led operation against the LRA. This new operation must place civ...