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May 1, 2008
| Author: | Gene B. Sperling, Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center for Universal Education |
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Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
Gene B. Sperling explains why “we need to provide more food aid and we need to make sure it is delivered in a way that continues to strengthen school-feeding programs.”
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April 8, 2008
| Speakers: | Angelina Jolie, Co-Chair, Jolie-Pitt Foundation; Co-Chair, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict Safaa El-Kogali, Senior Economist, Human Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank George E. Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee; Member, International Rescue Committee's Commission on Iraqi Refugees |
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| Presider: | Gene B. Sperling, Director, Center for Universal Education, Council on Foreign Relations; Co-Chair, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict |
Audio
Listen to experts discuss issues surrounding the education of children of conflict, specifically with regard to the current situation in Iraq.
April 8, 2008
| Speakers: | Angelina Jolie, Co-Chair, Jolie-Pitt Foundation; Co-Chair, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict Safaa El-Kogali, Senior Economist, Human Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank George E. Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee; Member, International Rescue Committee's Commission on Iraqi Refugees |
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| Presider: | Gene B. Sperling, Director, Center for Universal Education, Council on Foreign Relations; Co-Chair, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict |
Video
Watch experts discuss issues surrounding the education of children of conflict, specifically with regard to the current situation in Iraq.
April 8, 2008
| Speakers: | Angelina Jolie, Co-Chair, Jolie-Pitt Foundation, Co-Chair, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict Safaa El-Kogali, Senior Economist, Human Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank George E. Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee |
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| Presider: | Gene B. Sperling, Director, Center for Universal Education, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
Speakers discuss the plight of refugee children.
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January 23, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has propelled its citizens into South Africa and Botswana. Both countries are feeling the strain.
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September 2007
Essential Documents
Report
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December 6, 2007
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Daily Analysis
The volatile mixture of government troops, rebels, and lawlessness in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province threatens to draw in neighboring states and destabilize the region.
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December 4, 2007
Lieutenant General Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Botswana interviewed by Stephanie Hanson, News Editor
Interview
Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe, Botswana’s minister of foreign affairs, discusses his country’s policy toward Zimbabwe and China.
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November 20, 2007
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Daily Analysis
Iraqi refugees are returning home after years of war, leading Iraqi and U.S. officials to talk of a corner turned. But millions more remain abroad and unconvinced.
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November 16, 2007
Podcast
Robert Schrire, head of the political science department at the University of Cape Town, discusses South Africa's foreign policy under President Thabo Mbeki.
See more in Southern Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Democracy and Human Rights, Elections, International Organizations, International Peace and Security
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Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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