December 2009
Freeman Commons Lectures Live!
on December 31, 09http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/freeman/index.html Go to above link to see excellent presentations held this semester as part of the Freeman Global Policy Workshop series. If...
J. Brian Atwood and E. Thomas Sullivan: Obama and the Afghan War
on December 31, 09Most of the coverage of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize award focused on the irony of it all. Here was a man with a brief record of accomplishment in his first year of office, a President of the United States, inheriting and now commanding two wars, receiving a prize for peace. Yet, Barack Obama's acceptance speech summoned up the wisdom of the ages to address mankind's struggle to rationalize the worst manifestation of human behavior: war.
J. Brian Atwood: The Afghanistan Decision
on December 8, 09The Afghanistan Decision By J. Brian Atwood, Dean, Humphrey Institute Originally posted: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-brian-atwood/the-afghanistan-decision_b_382527.html Conservative critics have observed a lack of passion in...
Give Afghan farmers an option to opium
on December 3, 09Cotton would be a perfect fit, but our own domestic politics would stand in the way.
NPR: New Wave of Violence Against Women in Guinea
on December 3, 09http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113966999 During a recent, peaceful, pro-democracy rally in Guinea, soldiers turned against women with unprecedented waves of sexual violence. Although soldiers have...