I’ve been off the blogging sphere for a while and consequently am playing catch up. Been training for a 25 bicycle race. Every Memorial Day weekend people come from all over the country to my small town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and race through the mountains against the train that was used in the […]
A new report on global water stress out last week from the British risk assessment firm Maplecroft highlights countries at “extreme risk” for water shortage, declaring, “current and future water availability as one of the foremost global challenges.” Nine of the top ten countries on the list are from the Middle East/North Africa region, with […]
If we are able to recognize that US foreign policy in respect to instability in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India is irrational due to the absence of a ‘necessary but not sufficient’ condition – bolstering of Pakistan’s strategic advantages over India – then the easy part is done. Crafting a foreign policy that addresses this contingent […]
Last month I attended a panel discussion called “Post Genocide Rwanda: Inventing Structures of Hope” at Brown University’s Arts in One World conference. One speaker in particular, Tim Gallimore, had much to say that I wanted to share with my Law and Security Strategy readers. So I interviewed him. With events relating to Rwanda making […]
Like many Americans I have a high regard for the British people, arising in part from our shared history and culture and also from a study abroad stint during my undergraduate years. Living in London was a great experience that left me with a fond nostalgia for all things British. So, naturally, I took special […]
THE ROAD TO DEAUVILLE, FRANCE 2011 G-8 SUMMIT: President Barack Obama arrives in Europe today beginning a six-day trip that seeks more resources to promote and support the pro-democracy movements in the Middle East’s Arab Spring, a trip to Ireland, an address before the British Parliament to “re-set’ US-European relations, and a G-* Summit in Deaville, Fr to discuss integrating Suub-Saharran Africa into the Global economic framework.
Switzerland’s government has decided to go nuclear-free in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Last week-end, 20,000 rallied against nuclear power. Earlier today, the cabinet decided to build no new fission plants while allowing those currently on line to operate through their designed lifespan. “Existing nuclear power plants will be closed at the end of […]
Ratko Mladic was arrested today in Lazarevo, Serbia ending a sixteen year long manhunt (as predicted in our Year In Review article). He was the Serbian military commander responsible for the Srebrenica massacre in which over 7,000 Muslims were murdered, and has been labeled Europe’s most wanted war criminal. The two most notorious fugitive war […]
Pennies add up for Wisconsin 8th-graders A so-called “penny war” begun by eighth-graders at West Salem Middle School, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, raised $610 in loose change from students — a portion of which was donated to a village in Rwanda to meet the water needs for a month. Students divided the remainder […]
Share Our Strength has enlisted Academy Award winning actor and child hunger activist Jeff Bridges to promote its “No Kid Hungry” campaign. The initiative aims to end child hunger in the United States by 2015 by building a community of supporters who commit to participating in programs and initiatives organized by Share Our Strength. Share […]
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, will speak about promoting nonproliferation at the Japan Society in New York on May 31st. Details below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011 Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General to the United Nations, to Speak on Promoting Nonproliferation NEW YORK— Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General, will speak on Tuesday at the conference: […]
I was talking to a fellow sustainability geek the other day. He was telling me about the new gadget, installed by his friendly, neighborhood electric utility, that very closely monitors his home energy use and gives vivid color readouts on just how much juice is being consumed. You won’t be surprised to learn that he […]
The World Economic Forum spoke to over 500 companies from around the world May 4-6, 2011 about Africa’s huge economic growth potential. The forum opened with a call for Africa to rethink its global role. “You can no longer talk about the old Africa,” said South African President Jacob G. Zuma. “We need to develop […]
Today 25 May is National Missing Children’s Day, a day setforth to strengthen the protection of all children and seek to ensure that we inciate whatever it takes to find missing children across the country. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children there are some 800,000 reported missing each day, NCMEC also reports […]
During the last couple of years we have seen some very significant developments around the world. First, a housing bubble in the U.S. caused a global financial crisis, then a sovereign debt crisis in Europe threatened the very viability of the EU, and now a string of people revolutions in North Africa and the Middle […]