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The Road to Rio: What Kind of World Do We Want to Live In?
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said recently that “Not only is it possible to grow and to include, protect, and conserve at the same time, but also truly sustainable development requires that we do...
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Another Climate Cost: More Poverty
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy reminds us once again of the destructive potential of extreme weather—even in a developed country such as the United States, and even with ample warning and...
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Bringing Art to a War Zone
With the help of more than 100 brave Afghan artists and activists, I gave away 10,000 pink balloons to people in Kabul as they commuted to work on Saturday, May 25th. Likely the biggest public art...
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The Road to Rio: What Kind of World Do We Want to Live In?
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said recently that “Not only is it possible to grow and to include, protect, and conserve at the same time, but also truly sustainable development requires that we do...
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Another Climate Cost: More Poverty
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy reminds us once again of the destructive potential of extreme weather—even in a developed country such as the United States, and even with ample warning and...
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Bringing Art to a War Zone
With the help of more than 100 brave Afghan artists and activists, I gave away 10,000 pink balloons to people in Kabul as they commuted to work on Saturday, May 25th. Likely the biggest public art...
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Déjà Vu in the Central African Republic as UN Looks to Intervene
In a December 1998 report to the United Nations Security Council, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan happily reflected on a crisis in Africa where the world body had done well. A UN peacekeeping...
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Ordinary Fears, Extraordinary Man: The Legacy of Nelson Mandela
If all the famous people gathered in a room, all attention would be on Nelson Mandela. He is, without a doubt, the most well-known and respected public figure in the world. And yet, as I personally...
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Nelson Mandela: Man and Awesome Phenomenon
The news only reached me this morning here at my Cape Town home. It was not a shock because it had been expected. But a grey, heavy, and deep sadness descended. It was mixed with uncertainty and...
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Mandela, Pan-African Prophet
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was one of the greatest moral figures of the twentieth century. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, he was a nation-builder par excellence who did the most to unite a...
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How Mandela’s Relentless Diplomacy Transformed South Africa
South African President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 1992. (credit: World Economic Forum) I was the US consul general in Johannesburg,...
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Despite Deal, Iran Still Needs Pressure (and UN Sanctions)
Most reporting on the nuclear agreement with Iran has tended to generalize about the types of sanctions and the impact of the deal on these various measures, so it would be easy to assume that United...
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Can Russia Reshape Ukraine Without Firing a Shot?
Unidentified gunmen on patrol at Simferopol Airport in Crimea, February 28, 2014. (Elizabeth Arrott/VOA) A few months ago, no one seemed to predict Russia’s grab of Crimea and the fast-moving events...
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