Violence Breeds Violence: “Afghanistan without bombs and burqas”

by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - Today Afghanistan finds itself in a state of collapse and at the center of a powerful network of global terrorism. Kabul is a city filled with anxiety, insecurity, instability, trauma, and uncertainty; lost souls...

Posted by Wazhmah Osman on March 1, 2010 12:00 AM

Empowerment for Peace: Afghanistan’s Unlikely Presidential Candidate

by Abigail Wendle - USA - When Hamid Karzai became Afghanistan’s first democratically elected president in 2004, the new government established a constitution that proclaimed equality for men and women, promising to enforce international standards of human rights. But throughout...

Posted by Abigail Wendle on April 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Will NATO Agree to Stabilize Afghanistan?

by Patricia DeGennaro - USA - This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 60th birthday. President Obama will take his first European trip since the presidential campaign to meet NATO’s twenty-six members. While there, he’ll have to pinch...

Posted by Patricia DeGennaro on March 25, 2009 12:00 AM

Former UFW Organizer Dolores Huerta Weighs in on Leadership, Immigration and Society

by Diane Solomon - USA - Like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. before them, when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez organized California’s exploited and marginalized farm workers into the United Farmworkers of America (UFW) in the 1960s...

Posted by Diane Solomon on July 16, 2008 12:00 AM

US Leadership Expert Michael Maccoby Discusses Which Candidate Is Best Suited for the Presidency

by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - What kind of leader does tomorrow’s America need? And who among the presidential candidates is best suited to meet the challenges that the next leader of the world’s superpower will face? These are some...

Posted by Eva Sohlman on March 31, 2008 12:00 AM