It’s hard to throw a virtual rock nowadays at any foreign affairs publication and not find statements of the demise or fall of American power. In many ways, these are accurate statements as American economic power is falling in proportion to some of the rising economies around the world (although it is still top dog […]
Today, UNICEF launched its flagship annual publication, The State of the World’s Children 2011 Report, entitled Adolescence – An Age of Opportunity. The annual report examines the factors and lives of some 1.2 billion youth aged 10 to 19 years-old around the globe, the majority, 88 percent, of which live in developing countries and are […]
Rising oil & food prices, unrest in the Middle East, declining house prices and a slew of other variables threaten to hamper a fragile US economic recovery.
What if the U.S. decided to create a think tank dedicated to peace and then invited scholars and practitioners to conduct research and start projects aimed at promoting peace and conflict resolution? That would be a good thing, right? Born out of the dark times of the Cold War, the U.S. Institute of Peace has […]
A newly launched initiative by the World Food Programme (WFP), called WeFeedback, uses a social media platform to make it easier to feed hungry children around the globe and share your efforts with others. How does it work? WeFeedback invites the public to join a social network to fight hunger using only a few easy […]
Though the ultimate outcome of Egypt’s revolution remains uncertain (it’s still possible that it might wind up not being a revolution at all), it is worth asking: what factors make security forces more likely to decide to side with protesters? Michael Auslin flirts with this question in relation to China at the National Review. He […]
Today the United Nations officially launched UN Women, an agency designed to help promote gender equality across the globe. The new branch has been highly publicized and long awaited, thus there was much excitement as it finally became a reality earlier today. UN Women was unanimously voted on by the 192-member General Assembly following years […]
News of Iran’s intensified global search for uranium supplies has hit the wires, underscoring the need for the IAEA to get its nuclear fuel bank up and running. The Agency received the final green light it needed when its Board of Governors approved a proposal by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to establish a bank […]
This is my maiden post for the Foreign Policy Association, so I thought I’d briefly introduce myself and share some thoughts about what I hope to accomplish with my blog posts for FPA. I have served in various capacities in and around the Washington, D.C. policy community over the last twenty years or so, where […]
These fellas took home first prize in the 1 minute to save the world film competition. Kudos to GOOD, where I picked this up.
Women soon to play greater role in UN peacekeeping The United Nations is expected to increase its number of all-female peacekeeping forces from some 3% today to 20% by 2014. “We are already in Bangladesh and India as specifically women forces, but we need to expand that capacity because we believe that’s important; female forces […]
Egypt: Rise to Freedom is a video and music tribute to the people of Egypt by Basha Beats and Natacha Atlas Via Six Degrees Records blog, Globalnoize
by Cordelia Rizzo In 2010, more than 465 women were murdered in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, most of them after being raped and severely tortured. They were the latest victims of the nearly 18 years of systematic killings of women in the city, which have claimed more than 1,052 lives. In the past two months, two […]
Gender-based violence can be directed against young girls and females from all cultures and socioeconomic classes—although the poor and dispossessed are more readily targeted. Women and young female children are targeted because they are the most vulnerable and powerless generally—especially in underdeveloped and conflict-ridden countries. In desperate situations of survival, female child soldiers may be […]
The 50th anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps will be marked with activities throughout 2011, but the organization has chosen food security as a signature issue around which many local anniversary activities should be organized. The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is helping members of the Peace Corps community to organize Global House Parties on […]