Global Solutions Quarterly Summer 2007
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Darfur and Indiana
may seem worlds away from each other, but they have one very important fact in
common: Both are home to Darfurians. Fort Wayne, Indiana is
home to one of the largest populations of Darfurians ? approximately 300 ? in
the United States. They also live throughout the state in South Bend, Indianapolis
and Elkhart. People from Darfur began to settle in Indiana in the 1990s bu...
By Charles J. Brown
Eighteen
months to go. That?s the mantra you hear
these days: Only 18 more months before
the end of arguably the worst presidency in American history. On January 20, 2009, our long nightmare will
be over, and a new era of sanity and sweetness, measured action and
multilateral diplomacy, will commence.
I don?t think
so.
First of all,
we can?t wait 18 months: Pr...
Citizens for Global Solutions? Herbert Scoville
Peace Fellow, Julia Fitzpatrick, recently spoke with Suliman Giddo, the
co-founder and president of the Darfur Peace and Development Organization
(DPADO), based in Fort Wayne,
Indiana. Founded in 2002, DPADO?s mission is to
provide humanitarian relief to victims of the genocide in Darfur,
to facilitate just governance and to enable Darfurians to e...
In the 1990s, the world witnessed the slaughter of
800,000 people in the Rwandan genocide and the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian men in
the Srebrenica region of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 1999, the targeted NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo ? controversial
due to a lack of U.N. Security Council approval ? raised questions about the
legality of humanitarian intervention and military force. Today, the wor...
Citizens
for Global Solutions? energy initiative seeks to build support for a more
comprehensive, more cooperative U.S.
energy policy. We are seeking to enact
three key pieces of legislation that are equipped to handle the multiple
challenges posed by the current global energy system.
The
first is Senate Resolution 30 (S.Res.30), the Biden-Lugar resolution on
international climate change a...
Over the last six months,
Citizens for Global Solutions has been working on a campaign to end torture in
response to the ?enhanced interrogation? strategies employed by the Bush
administration that directly violate the Geneva Conventions. These officially sanctioned policies have
enabled the CIA to act with impunity in the kidnapping and rendering of
suspected enemy combatants to foreign regime...
Global Solutions Quarterly Spring 2007
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By Charles J. Brown
From the Oscars to the president?s State of the Union
address, everyone is talking about the need for America to reduce its dependence on
foreign oil and other fossil fuels. More often than not, the solution proposed
is something called energy independence.
But what exactly does that term
mean? What are we declaring independence from? And why? Such questions aren?t
often a...
Raj Purohit, Senior
Fellow at Citizens for Global Solutions, is a specialist in International Law
and Justice. Prior to joining our staff in 2005, he was Legislative Director
for Human Rights First, where he represented them in a
range of coalitions, including the Washington Working Group on the
International Criminal Court, and was a media spokesperson. He also has served
as Legislative Director...
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