Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Sustainable Peace for Sustainable Development: Scrutinizing the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 16 in Question
My name is Ajarat Bada and I am the Director for The Missing Millennium Development Goal Initiative. We are grateful for the opportunity to contribute to these efforts. Transformative shift number 4 in the High Level panel’s report particularly inspires us. We agree that freedom from conflict and violence is the “essential foundation...
Stepping Over the Border in Divided Cyprus
On the 11th of March, a group of artists gathered on the northern side of Nicosia, the last divided capital city in the world. They were all there to take part in a European Union-funded residency, aiming to bridge the border between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities. The island of Cyprus has long been a contested area, its...
The World Is Changing Before Our Very Eyes
Today the familiar contours of the post Cold War era (1991-2015) are changing before our very eyes. A new set of rising powers — Russia, China and Iran — are challenging the post-Cold War status quo dominated by the United States and Europe. The Russians in the last seven years in Europe and the Caucasus have seized South Ossetia and...
Ancient Battle On UN Security Council ‘Trigger’ Bogs Down Iran Nuclear Talks
By Louis Charbonneau LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 1 (Reuters) – It is one of those concepts that is particularly odious to Russia — an automatic trigger mechanism under which the U.N. Security Council would be forced to do something. Now a dispute over that issue threatens to wreck marathon negotiations on a preliminary political...
Obama’s Foreign Policy: Continuity Rather Than Contradictions
Analysts of foreign policy often dream or fantasize more than they analyze. Every single ideological stripe or every single political Internet site produces its analyses in accordance with preconceived notions or preferred frames of references. It is often difficult to know if analysts from different backgrounds are talking about the same events...
Germanwings Co-Pilot Lubitz Told Flight School Of Depressive Episode: Lufthansa
BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa knew six years ago that the co-pilot of the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps last week had suffered from a “serious depressive episode,” the German airline said Tuesday. The airline said that as part of its internal research it found emails that Andreas Lubitz sent to the Lufthansa flight school...
Russia-Ukraine Conflict 101
Ukraine Majority Language Map If it’s possible to condense the incomprehensibly complex Russia/Ukraine conflict into one coherent hour, Matthew Rojansky can do it. Rojansky, Director of the Kennan Institute, and an expert on the region, proved that in a recent presentation at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club. A listener who blinked...
If Obama Can Embrace the Saudi Monarch, Why Can’t Putin Greet the North Korean Ruler?
VLADIVOSTOK — Kim Jong-un is scheduled to visit Moscow this May as one of the Kremlin’s numerous guests of honor for the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. This will be his first visit abroad since he succeeded his father Kim Jong-il as the ruler of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in December 2011. Kim...
Ten Reasons Why Obama Should Travel to Armenia on April 24
Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan has invited several world leaders to Yerevan on April 24 to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The Presidents of France, Russia, Poland, Cyprus and Belarus have already accepted Pres. Sargsyan’s invitation. The White House has yet to make a public statement on whether Pres. Obama...
Vice Aims To Produce Daily HBO Show Without Being ‘Slaves To The News Cycle’
NEW YORK — When Vice News launched in March 2014, masked pro-Russian separatists were seizing government buildings in Crimea, and the upstart news organization posted some of the first ground-level reports of the nascent conflict. Though U.S. coverage of Crimea has waxed and waned in the past year, Vice News Editor-in-Chief Jason Mojica...
