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Educational Exchanges and the Promotion of Human Rights
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- March 9, 2012
On Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared her story of fighting against early marriage of young girls by bringing divorce applications in
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The KONY2012 Campaign and Its Critics
- Analysis
- March 8, 2012
Guest contributor: REX BRYNEN Professor of Political Science, McGill University In recent days, a social media-based campaign called KONY2012 has gone viral with worldwide calls for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is responsible for 25 years of violence, child abduction, and forced sexual slavery, first
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Exploring Global Governance Networks
- Analysis
- March 7, 2012
How is global governance organized? For many complicated issues, governance is being pursued at multiple sites, by different actors, at different levels and, in many cases, across space in a messy transnational fashion. What, then, are fruitful ways of understanding these processes (for example, the patterns we see in certain sorts of governance operating in
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Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?
- Analysis
- March 5, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.16, March 2012. By STEVE COLL, New America Foundation. The NATO transition plan for Afghanistan is based on faulty assumptions and must be rethought before time runs out. The international community must invest in a successful political transition in 2014, lest fraudulent elections lead to renewed civil conflict in Afghanistan. Canada and
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