Author: Ben Wallace
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Carnegie Council
The Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs hosted a discussion on what Fighting for Darfur tells us about the benefits and challenges of citizen engagement in foreign policy.
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Partial understanding, partial solutions?
Today’s question, co-hosted by Texas in Africa:
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What is the best role for citizen voices in foreign policy?
A View From The Cave will be co-hosting today’s question so feel free to check out the discussion over there as well. Here goes:
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Would reforming the UN Security Council improve its ability to respond to mass atrocities?
The conversation around UN Security Council reform had a lot of momentum in 2006, and has continued to be pushed by some states who do not have permanent seats on the council. What difference might proposed reforms make to the council’s response to situations like …
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What about the responsibilities of policymakers?
Fighting for Darfur spends a lot of time looking at successes and failings of activists. But what about the policymakers they were targeting? The next set of questions tries to get at the intersection of citizen engagement and policy formulation from the perspective of those …
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What role for the U.S. in the battle to stop genocide and mass atrocities?
As I continue to post draft questions from the teaching guide over the coming month, I’m grateful to a few bloggers out there who have agreed to co-host some questions to help get a mix of reader feedback. (If you have a site with readers …
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