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Global JusticeSupply-Chain Slavery: What You May Not Know About the Products You Consume
Do you know where the coffee used in your Venti Iced Caramel Macchiato you drink religiously comes from? How about the chocolate...
Global CooperationNPT 2015: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas
As Winston Churchill once quipped, “God so loved the world that he did not send a committee.” The Drafting Committee of the...
Human RightsBurma’s Ethnic-Based Violence Must End for Democracy to Thrive
Democracy is a process of becoming, of trying to create the more perfect union, and this is definitely true for Burma (also...
Global JusticeCorporate Power and Labor Rights: Why We Have to Watch out for the TPP
On May 21, 2015, the urban streets of Chicago were engulfed in the cries of thousands, as workers, community supporters, and other...
Climate JusticeA Seventy-Year Solution: More Energy, Less Climate Change
This is the first of three planned blogs to focus on three crucial levers to a sustainable and ample life for our...
Global CooperationNPT: New Opportunities and Obsolete Perceptions
In my last blog, I outlined the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the role of...
Climate JusticeA Time of Mitzrayim
We live in narrow times—a time of Mitzrayim.* On one side, violence spreads like cancer. ISIL, Ukraine, Sudan, DRC, and too much...
Peace & DisarmamentNuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Order
The Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) started at the United Nations in New York on...
The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis Isn’t Merely Europe’s Problem to Solve
As many as one million desperate refugees and migrants will brave the Mediterranean Sea to flee conflict, oppression, and instability in Africa...
Global CooperationCluster Bombs: Saudi Use, US Sales, and the Review Conference on Their Prohibition
The Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has on at least two separate occasions used cluster bombs to attack villages in Yemen's northern Saada...
Global JusticeThe TPP: What It Could Mean for Trade, Human Rights, and The Environment
Every year the second Saturday in May is recognized as World Fair Trade Day. This day highlights the importance of Fair Trade...