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ARTICLES BY FORMER FELLOWS

Copenhagen's missing ingredient: water

Scientists stress water's profound link with climate change, yet delegates at next week's conference have deleted water from the working draft of a binding environmental treaty.

By James G. Workman (November 30, 2009)

Climate change conjures up factory smoke, corn ethanol, cap-and-trade, hybrid cars. It also evokes Al Gore, drowning polar bears, African famine and Hurricane Katrina. All these triggers and the issues they invoke, backed by mounting evidence of irreversible risks to humankind, will converge next week in Copenhagen.

The complete article can be viewed at: www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-workman30-2009nov30,0,1355625.story

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The sinister echoes of November 9

By David Binder (November 5, 2009)

GlobalPost – International News

Anniversaries are the times to remember where we were when something significant happened. For Germans, Nov. 9 recalls 1989 when the Berlin Wall suddenly opened a crack and swiftly  crumbled.

www.globalpost.com/dispatch/germany/091104/november-9-1989-berlin-wall-germany

 

Syria Clenches Its Fist

By Andrew J. Tabler (August 28, 2009)

FOREIGN POLICY.COM

Foreign Policy on the Obama Administration's seven-month engagement with Syria post last week's Iraq attacks.

www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/28/syria_clenches_its_fist

 

OTHER ARTICLES BY ANDREW TABLER

www.andrewtabler.com
www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=66
roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/talking-to-syria/?scp=1&sq=andrew%20tabler&st=cse

 

After Mehsud

By Nicholas Schmidle 

SLATE.COM

Earlier this summer, the Taliban released a DVD that suggested Baitullah Mehsud was losing his mojo. Unlike other propaganda videos, which show Taliban cadres conducting real ambushes in Afghanistan or firing rockets in the…

www.slate.com/id/2224668

 

OTHER ARTICLES BY NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE

www.nicholasschmidle.com
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Africa-t.html?pagewanted=all

 

Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

By Andrew Rice

The New York Times

In a series of meetings, Saudi government officials, bankers and agribusiness executives told an institute delegation led by Zeigler that they intended to spend billions of dollars to establish plantations to produce rice and other staple crops in African nations like Mali, Senegal, Sudan and Ethiopia...

www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html

 

OTHER ARTICLES BY ANDREW RICE

Unwanted?, The New Republic, 26 Aug 2009
Magazine Preview: Mission From Africa, The New York Times, 8 Apr 2009
Key | Spring 2009: A Cold Season in the Hamptons, The New York Times,  14 Mar 2009

 

 

 

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From the Archive


Mayan men and women in Guatemala City await the government’s ‘Commission for Historical Clarity’ report on the slaying of more than 200,000 indigenous people, 1999


“I am thirty now,” Estella said. “I remember one day in the early eighties when there was a procession through the main plaza to celebrate Guatemala’s independence. Every year all the kids from the local schools joined in the procession. I was there with my younger siblings. Marimba music was playing. All of a sudden soldiers came into the area and opened fire on the crowd and everyone began to run, because we were all being fired at. Dead bodies were strewn everywhere, just blood and mangled corpses, and we had to jump over them and through them to get away.” [read newsletter]

—Chenoa Egawa

Guatemala

ICWA Fellow (1997-2000)