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 Summer Schedule
Carnegie Council's new program of events begins in September.
However, our online magazine Policy Innovations will be updated weekly as usual, and the main Carnegie Council site will also continue to post materials. In addition to ad hoc features, regular postings are as follows:
Tuesdays: Advocates for Ethics in Business Interview Series (online and audio podcast)
Wednesdays: Global Ethics Forum: Video shows from some of our events (online and video podcast)
Fridays: Global Ethics Corner: 90-second multimedia series (online and video and audio podcast)
 Policy Innovations Online Magazine
Setting the Bar at 350
Evan O'Neil talks with Phil Aroneanu of 350.org, an international campaign to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Information Gaps Hinder CSR Achievement
Jeff Hittner discusses IBM's second annual survey of senior executives from around the world on the importance of green and sustainability issues to their corporate strategies.
Our Biology Makes Us All Truly Equal
"Race" is a persistent example of our imagination, write Robert Pollack and Amy Pollack.
Carnegie Ethics Online
On the 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen: Human Rights Needs for a New China
Elizabeth E. Cole, Madeleine Lynn
What do Chinese want most from their government today? Health and safety issues are paramount for many, especially for their children.
 A Human Rights Analysis of the G20 Communique
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Margot E. Salomon
The recession's impact on developing nations is not just a question of charity or enlightened self-interest for rich nations. It is an issue of international human rights law.
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
 Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our first-ever fund drive, which took place in May. In these difficult times, your ongoing support is more important than ever.
Because of the summer break, our next Insider e-newsletter will appear in October. We wish all our readers a pleasant summer!
WHAT'S NEW
ADVOCATES FOR ETHICS IN BUSINESS:
NEW INTERVIEW SERIES
How do global businesses deal successfully with ethical dilemmas? To find out, listen to Julia Kennedy talk with business, civil society, and academic leaders. Launched on June 16, these audio interviews will run every Tuesday through the summer. Listen to them on our site or as podcasts.
 JUST OUT: ETHICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, SUMMER ISSUE
This issue features a special section entitled "Postwar Justice and the Responsibility to Rebuild," with guest editors Alexandra Gheciu and Jennifer Welsh and contributions from Alexandra Gheciu and Jennifer Welsh, Mark Evans, Stefano Recchia, and Dominik Zaum. It also includes an essay on ethical competence in international relations by Mervyn Frost and one on the "global war on terror" by Amy Zalman and Jonathan Clarke.
SEPTEMBER IS SUSTAINABILITY MONTH
Watch our web calendar for events on the theme of sustainability during the month of September.
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
- U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS AFTER THE IRANIAN ELECTION
Acclaimed diplomat Ambassador Thomas Pickering discusses the turbulent situation in Iran and how the U.S. should proceed.
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NORTH KOREA: WHAT NEXT?
There are no good options in negotiations with North Korea, says Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs, Victor Cha. It's always a choice between a bad option and a worse one.
- THE AMERICAN FUTURE:
A HISTORY
In a dazzling display of learning and verbal virtuosity, Simon Schama takes us from Arlington Cemetery to the contrasts between the Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian worldview; to China and Afghanistan; and to many points in between.
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FORCED TO LABOR: THE COST OF COERCION
Today millions of people are trapped in forced labor, often tricked into paying huge fees for visas and transport. This panel features trafficking and forced labor experts from the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the ILO, as well as a personal account from a former slave.
- THE GLOBAL DEAL: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CREATION OF A NEW ERA OF PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY
Renowned economist Lord Nicholas Stern estimates that it will cost only about 2 percent of global GDP to control climate change at manageable levels by 2050. But we cannot afford to wait. The cost of inaction is far greater and more dangerous.
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