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Ascending From the Ashes: Are We Turning the Corner?

14 years ago14 years ago10 mins

Once I was in Heliopolis, the “sun city,” or at least the place where the ancient city once stood. This was in the late 1960s, a few months after the seven-day war between Israel and Egypt. A tentative peace was apparent (which has now lasted more than four decades) and birds were back in the public squares.

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Safe & Humane

15 years ago15 years ago13 mins

Many of my recent articles have chronicled a worldwide decline in prison population. Today, however, I want to present why this current trend is not a universal characteristic.

On the wall in one of our conference rooms is a map of the world prepared by The Interdisciplinary Research Programme on Causes of Human Rights Violations, located at Leiden University in the Netherlands. I often stare at that map during internal meetings because the conflict areas in the globe are noted in red.

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Trendspotting: To the Higher Ground

16 years ago16 years ago10 mins

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Most of us were at our day job (and glad to have one) in mid-October when cable TV channels devoted up to 50 percent of their broadcast to tracking a helium-filled balloon across