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Our South Africa Fellow, Eve Fairbanks, has published the following article in The New Republic on race relations in post-Apartheid South Africa, focusing on the black South African Jonathan Jansen, appointed as leader of the University of the Free State last year with a mission to integrate the divided campus. The Healer: Can Jonathan Jansen succeed where Mandela failed? Trustee and Former Fellow Pramila Jayapal has published an Op-Ed jointly with Gloria Steinem on immigration with the Women’s Media Center: Immigration is a Woman’s Issue Honoring and Remembering Edwin S. Munger Honoring and Remembering Albert Ravenholt The Wheel of Life Turns at Rajprasong Former Fellow, Nicholas Schmidle has published two articles in The New Republic discussing recent events in Pakistan. Also, on May 8 Nicholas took calls from the public on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Flop House www.tnr.com/article/world/flop-house In a Ditch www.tnr.com/article/world/ditch The Graffiti Prophet of Bois Verna Our Haiti Fellow, Pooja Bhatia, has written an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times on the graffiti artist Jerry: www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/opinion/12bhatia.html You can read her earlier Institute of Current World Affairs Newsletter on Jerry by clicking here: PAB-6 “Jerry’s World” |
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Opinion: Hello, NATO, goodbye
Despite predictions of a "global NATO," the alliance’s days of growth are numbered.
By David Binder — Special to GlobalPost
April 7, 2010
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100404/NATO
David Binder was a member of the Washington Bureau of The New York Times from June 1973 until his retirement in 1996. He continues to work, specializing in coverage of Central and Eastern European affairs, while also reporting on events involving United States foreign policy. He was a fellow of Institute of Current World Affairs in Germany from 1957-1959.
Environmental Threat to Lake Baikal
Elena Agarkova, our Fellow in Russia, has published the following article about the environmental threat to Lake Baikal.
www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/07/91779/putin-about-face-on-paper-mill.html
The Answer Is Not Blowing In the Wind
By Dr. Donald Perry
www.prudentbear.com/index.php/guestcommentaryview?art_id=10350
The environment everywhere is under threat, even in New York by a business thought to be green.
Dr. Perry is a biologist, author and inventor. He was an ICWA Fellow in Costa Rica (1986-88). Read Donald’s ICWA Newsletters
Ex-Guatemala President to Be Tried in U.S.
By Ezra Fieser
Ezra Fieser is a freelance reporter in Central America and a recent former fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Guatemala (2008-2010).
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