ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, …
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) crisis stems from a series of post-colonial battles from power, which began after the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960. Decades of conflict have been fuelled by ethnic tensions, political rivalries, corruption and fighting for control of valuable natural resources. DRC’s current conflict has been ongoing since the …
Hoover fellow Chester Finn describes new efforts to produce educated citizens. Chris Herhalt: Reading the latest work by Hoover researcher Jed Ngalande into states’ requirements for civics education, I was struck by the different requirements across the country. I know education is said to be thirteen thousand fiefdoms, but could we benefit from some sort of standardization …
Sizing up and getting ready for the profound—and still unknown—ways our adversaries might use artificial intelligence. Jonathan Movroydis: Defense against the AI Dark Arts: Threat Assessment and Coalition Defense is a report that springs from a new initiative, the Hoover Workshops on Urgent Security Choices. The workshops engage veteran crisis managers and strategic thinkers to offer deep, practical analysis. Professor …
The scene for one of the worst-ever civil wars in African history, the Democratic Republic of Congo has moved from the national conflict of the late 1990s to a series of smaller, localized conflicts focused in specific regions and centered on land, resources, and power. On a continent that has the most displaced people in the world, …
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) crisis stems from a series of post-colonial battles from power, which began after the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960. Decades of conflict have been fuelled by ethnic tensions, political rivalries, corruption and fighting for control of valuable natural resources. DRC’s current conflict has been ongoing since the …
Abstract: The adoption of the Paris Agreement is a milestone in international climate politics and brings years of near deadlock negotiations to a conclusion. The Agreement creates a global process of engagement, follow-up, regular stock-take exercises and cooperative action. On the one hand, it represents a step forward, overcoming the many divisions that had marked …
Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will sweep back into power promising a new American approach to the world. As he was in 2017, Trump has been harshly critical of his predecessor’s foreign policy and pledged major differences in priorities and style. His supporters cheer the return to an “America first” attitude, one that emphasizes toughness, …
Populism is seen as both bad and good because people disagree about what it represents and intends. In the present age, there are two di!erent sorts of populism. Both strains originated in classical times and persist today. In antiquity, one type was known by elite writers of that time to be the “bad” populism. It …
7 Pillars to Defend Democracy—The Case of the U.S. This third edition of the Democracy Playbook updates its predecessor 20191 and 20212 publications of evidence-based best practices for reversing democratic backsliding. We have added the research and developments of the eventful past three years—and have done so with an eye toward what is likely to be a …