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Collage of Julian Assange, by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artensoft/5305386172/" target=_blank">Artensoft</a>

FEB 28, 2011 Article

WikiLeaks: An Overview, Part II

Did WikiLeaks really spark the unrest in Tunisia, as Assange and many pundits claim? No, writes Erik Schechter; but it has certainly influenced politics in ...

FEB 24, 2011 Article

WAMC Radio's Alan Chartock Interviews Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal

Transcript of interview with Alan Chartock, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, first broadcast on February 24, 2011.  

FEB 23, 2011 Journal Online Exclusive

Interview with John Tessitore, Editor of Ethics & International Affairs

Julia Taylor Kennedy interviews editor John Tessitore on the occasion of the Carnegie Council's upcoming 25th-anniversary edition of its Ethics & International Affairs journal.

Images from left to right:<br><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Otpor.png" target="_blank">Otpor</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:April_6_Youth_Movement.jpg" target="_blank">April 6 Movement</a>; <a href="http://upload.

FEB 18, 2011 Article

From Resistance to Revolution and Back Again: What Egyptian Youth Can Learn From Otpor When Its Activists Leave Tahrir Square

Joksic and Spoerri discuss Otpor, the Serbian youth movement that influenced Egypt's youths. In analyzing the sources of Otpor's ultimate collapse after Milosevic's fall, they ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/toniluca/2351455570/">Toni Lucatorto</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 17, 2011 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Innovating Sovereign Wealth Funds

As we struggle to tackle financial and ecological sustainability, sovereign wealth funds such as in Alaska deserve far greater attention for positive adoption.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciat/5367322642/">International Center for Tropical Agriculture</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 15, 2011 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Is Famine the New Norm?

If we truly consider world hunger an abomination, and not merely an investment opportunity, big changes need to be made in food policy.

William Lord

FEB 10, 2011 Article

2nd Prize Undergraduate Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011

Sustainability is more complex than just green policy, says William Lord. It is "a state of being in a society where the protection of the ...

GMC's Outdoor Classroom. Credit: Ashley Staron

FEB 9, 2011 Article

2nd Prize, Teacher Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2010

Professor Jacob Park and student Ashley Staron of Green Mountain College, Vermont, declare that to mainstream sustainability in higher educational institutions, the U.S. needs ...

Anthony Itodo Samuel

FEB 9, 2011 Article

1st Prize, Teacher Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2010

By forming an environmental club in Marymount College, Agbor, Nigeria, Anthony Itodo Samuel intends to address the challenges of environmental sustainability: a lack of awareness ...

McGill University. Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirsasha/3869487834/" target="_blank">mirsasha</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>)

FEB 9, 2011 Article

2nd Prize, Post Secondary Education Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2010

To have a meaningful impact, Lisa Blake proposes that McGill University focuses on developing two programs--one focused towards the overall McGill and Montreal community, and ...