
Published in the Globe and Mail, July 1, 2013 The trip to East Africa with an attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro was a check off my bucket list. But the professional lessons I learned from that trip were also an important addition to my list of insights. Everyone we encountered was fatalistic about the depth
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Last week, White House officials announced that the U.S. and the Taliban would start peace talks in the reopened Doha office of the Taliban. The announcement made headlines around the world, nurturing hopes that the protracted conflict in Afghanistan may finally move a bit closer to a peaceful solution. In the meantime, the war in
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The G8 Summit took place quietly in Northern Ireland on June 17-18. UK Prime Minister Cameron was in the chair, with his bold TTT (Taxes, Trade and Transparency) theme. None of the actors around the conference table brought rosy economic news. Europe struggled to not slip back into recession. The UK was in austerity-induced doldrums.
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Published in the e-zine openGlobalRights, June 25, 2013 The following piece is a contribution to the Global Rights forum on Open Democracy. Over the next year, this forum will provide a venue for discussion and debate on a number of human rights issues. The piece is a reply to earlier contributions by the Secretary-General of
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