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- No Place for Eritreans
03/22/2017
Eritreans are fleeing their repressive homeland at the rate of 5,000 a month. Yet once they manage to leave, new dangers await these hapless refugees, from extortion to violence and death. How can the world turn its back?
03/22/17 - Freedom of Expression in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Beyond
02/03/2017
Freelance journalist Ismail Einashe sees a dangerous backsliding of democracy and free media in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside an increase in Internet access and the influence of foreign media organizations. Two weeks into the new administration, are there parallels in the United States?
02/03/17 - Virtual Citizenship for Refugees: A Proposal
01/20/2017
At last, a practical, humane, and cost-effective proposal to help cope with the nearly 20 million refugees and asylum seekers worldwide, from philosophers Christian Barry and Philip Gerrans.
01/20/17 - The Needs of Refugee Women and Children in the Global Humanitarian Crisis
06/24/2016
In this powerful talk, executive director Sarah Costa explains the work of the Women's Refugee Commission, and discusses the current crisis. The numbers are staggering: one in 122 people across the world have been forced to flee, and the majority are women and children. The average length of displacement is 20 years. What can be done to help?
06/24/16 - Can Human-Centered Design "Fix" Humanitarian Aid?
09/29/2015
Design thinking has emerged as a new tool in humanitarianism. Proponents of the trend believe it can solve the problem long plaguing the aid community: that great ideas fail to be adopted in poor communities because they don't always take context into account. But are design's more inclusive methods still a kind of neo-imperialism? Is there a different way?
09/29/15 - "Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics" by David Bosco
09/10/2015
There is a growing awareness that the greatest threat to democracy may no longer derive from human agency, but from new forms of technology.
09/10/15 - Migrant Deaths Worldwide
06/08/2015
There is no going back to a world in which migration can be prevented. The only solution to the global crisis of migrant deaths is to merge humanitarian efforts to aid and rescue migrants with coordinated, cooperative efforts to open safe, long-term migration channels throughout regions, and even the world.
06/08/15 - Tourism, Farmers, & Technology in Africa: Eddie Mandhry from NYU Africa House
03/04/2015
"What's been amazing is that across Africa there is a movement where people are adopting technologies and leapfrogging some of the developmental stages that you'd have to go through," says Eddie Mandhry.
03/04/15 - Security Threats in Africa: A Critical Perspective
10/10/2014
The U.S. is still seeing Africa from a Cold War perspective rooted in political realist thought, writes Africa security expert Metelits. But characterizing non-Western institutions as having a lack of governance and generalizing about political violence can lead to grave errors in assessing the threat environment.
10/10/14 - "Watchers of the Sky": Film Screening & Conversation with Luis Moreno-Ocampo
04/02/2014
What are the challenges facing the International Criminal Court? How can it be more effective? Former ICC prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo explains.
04/02/14 - Citizenship Within and Across Nations
11/12/2013
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores the role of civic honor, and its negative counterpart, shame, in shaping the political behavior of individuals and of nations, and in particular, in shaping the moral dimensions of political behavior.
11/12/13 - The Story of Maria's Libraries
08/05/2013
Maria's Libraries is redefining what libraries can do for community development through a connected network of libraries across Kenya.
08/05/13 - Sir Adam Roberts on "Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror"
06/25/2013
Roberts discusses his book on Sri Lankan statesman Lakshman Kadirgamar, who fought against the terrorism of the Tamil Tigers and was assassinated by them in 2005. Roberts also answers questions about the legacy of colonialism and about his work and thoughts on civil resistance and nonviolence.
06/25/13 - Social Covenants Must Precede Social Contracts
04/09/2013
Fragile states that do not first forge a social covenant will later find it difficult to codify justice in a social contract.
04/09/13 - Innovation to the Rescue: New Ideas and Tech for Helping Refugees
03/21/2013
The UN refugee agency is adopting an innovation-centered approach in pursuit of better services, products, and outcomes for displaced populations.
03/21/13 - Thought Leader: Andrew Nathan
03/12/2013
"Each of us can do a little bit, and we have to pick a piece where we feel an interest and think we have a comparative advantage and try to work on that piece."
03/12/13 - Thought Leader: Ethan Zuckerman
02/22/2013
"I'd really like to see us get globalization right. For me, getting globalization right wouldn't mean that we have stuff from every corner of the world, but would mean that we have people and ideas and opportunities and solutions from every corner of the world."
02/22/13 - Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal
12/06/2012
We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy sector?
12/06/12 - Losing the Violence Monopoly
11/28/2012
The poisonous cocktail of widespread police and military brutality, increasingly lethal inter-communal ethnic violence in several regions, the anxious countdown to the March 2013 presidential elections, and uncertainty over the implementation of major constitutional reforms has transformed Kenya's security situation from precarious to explosive.
11/28/12 - 3D Printing Can Unlock Development Potential
11/01/2012
3D printing is the new frontier in manufacturing, with potentially radical effects on patterns of global trade and development.
11/01/12