Will Schanbacher holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Claremont Graduate University. His research and teaching interests include social ethics, globalization and poverty, religious ethics, and liberation theologies. His recent book, The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty offers an ethical examination of the current global food system and […]
Wednesday, a Liberian-flagged tanker sailed out of Libya’s northeastern port of Marsa al-Hariga carrying one million barrels of oil. At spot prices, this means the cargo is worth $100 million. This represents a significant milestone for the anti-Khadafy forces based in and around Benghazi in the east (formerly known as Cyrenaica). Symbolically, this provides greater […]
Tamara Tunie, plays Dr. Warner, the medical examiner on the hit show Law & Order: SVU (Special Victims Unit), and while the SVU team on TV investigates fictitious crimes of abuse, the dramatized cases give a window into the trauma and horror that faces many children across the country. While Dr. Warner may not be […]
I am a fiction reader, and it’s rare when a non-fiction story grabs me in the same way as a good novel. Well, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is such a book. Lemon was an accomplished journalist, in business school in 2005, who was assigned to write a story on women entrepreneurs […]
The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely. Nearly 14 million Americans are jobless and the outlook for many of them is grim.
On friday Richard Goldstone walked back his important and controversial 2009 Goldstone Report on potential war crimes resulting from the Israeli incursion into Gaza earlier that year in a Washington Post Op-Ed. He held that while Palestinian crimes were ‘of course’ intentional, he did not want to second guess difficult decisions made by Israeli commanders […]
It was supposed to be the final stage of a nearly decade long peace process. It was supposed to finally put to rest the civil war that tore the country apart in the 1990s. It was supposed to be the start to a new chapter in Cote d’Ivoire’s history, one not marked by geographic and […]
First, I want to welcome Julia Robinson to Global Health. Julia joins us with a diverse background in health advocacy and development work – most recently in South Africa working at mothers2mothers and previously in Sierra Leone at the West Africa Fistula Foundation. As a passionate advocate for women’s health rights and with a lens of […]
Last week, the Carnegie Endowment held its yearly Nuclear Power Conference. As happens annually, the conference brought together hundreds of experts to discuss both civilian nuclear power and nuclear security concerns. Naturally, this year was a bit different due to the Fukushima affair. Despite the news from Japan, the consensus among the conference panelists appeared […]
Today, Tuesday, April 5, 2011, is SAAM Day of Action (formerly A Day to End Sexual Violence. Every year one day is designated as day for supporters to rally and take viable action to bring awareness too and prevent sexual assault. The day was set for to nationally to create increased awareness on sexual violence […]
UN Security Council Resolution 1973 (which you can download here) authorizes a no-fly zone in Libya, as well as some other things. The scope of those other things, though, is the source of much contention. The no-fly zone, as far as I can tell, is pretty straight forward. Paragraph 8 authorizes member states “to take […]
Food is in short supply in the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), where factions are fighting over the disputed presidential election of November, 2010. Incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step down even though the United Nations, the African Union, the United States and the European Union have have recognized Alassane Ouattara as the winner. […]
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