• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

    TAKE A LOOK

    A Trove of Resources for Navigating Our Angry World

    by  • February 6, 2018 • Governance, Journalists, Peace and Security, Take a Look • 

    In the dark shadows of rising populism and hypernationalistic leaders, attempts to intimidate reporters and curb the exchange of information are taking on less visibly crude but still dangerous forms. The menace, highlighted in the United States by Donald Trump’s contemptuous accusations against the press, television and social media, has global echoes. There is...

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    GEOPOLITICS

    David Miliband on Our Duty to the Strangers in Our Midst: Refugees

    by  • December 19, 2017 • Geopolitics, Poverty, Refugees • 

    David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, has been president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee since 2013, overseeing both the agency’s humanitarian relief operations and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in several American cities. The son of European refugees from Nazi Germany, he just published his first book, “Rescue: Refugees and...

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    BOOKS

    Have You Read the Koran? An Invitation to Non-Muslims

    by  • October 21, 2017 • BOOKS • 

    Early in October, as director of Public Affairs Programs for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, I interviewed Gary Wills, the prize-winning historian and religious scholar, to discuss his latest book, titled “What the Qur’an Meant: And Why It Matters.” The book is an invitation to all non-Muslims to engage in a...

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    Raising the Climate Change Battle to Geoengineer the Earth

    by  • March 9, 2017 • Climate and Environment • 1 Comment

    The 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which came into force in 2016, commits nearly every nation in the world to lowering greenhouse gas emissions, a first major step toward global consensus and cooperation on combating climate change after years of United Nations-led negotiations. But environmental scientists have moved on, asking this question: What...

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    Peter Sutherland, UN Migration Envoy, Says: Do Not Shirk the Refugee Crisis

    by  • September 14, 2016 • General Assembly, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees, UN Special Envoys • 

    As the special envoy to the United Nations secretary-general on international migration since 2006, Peter Sutherland, an Irishman, has minced few words on the topic of people leaving their homes in search of better lives. In his role at the UN, he advises the secretary-general on issues related to international migration and development and promotes...

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