No Man’s Land: Women Plan Peace March Across Korea’s DMZ
Ope-Ed by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate — The Mark News — On May 24, 2015, which is International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, 30 women peacemakers from 15 countries plan to walk...
View ArticleInternational —An Easy Target: Homophobia For Political Ends
Op-Ed by Graeme Reid —The Mark News— Nigeria’s lively civil society is not known for consensus. So it is striking that every organization, interviewed by Human Rights Watch seems to agree on this:...
View ArticleAnd Justice For All: Should The I.C.C. Intervene With U.S. Torture Abroad?
Op-Ed by Jennifer Trahan — The Mark News — The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report released in December contains a number of accounts of “enhanced interrogation techniques” used as part of the...
View ArticleA Leap Of Faith: Islam’s Growing Popularity and Global Population
Op-Ed by David Voas — The Mark News — Christianity is currently the world’s largest religion, but the global Muslim population is growing rapidly. Within the lifetimes of most children now living,...
View ArticleFull Auto Pilot: Is It Really Necessary to Have a Human In The Cockpit?
Op-Ed by Mary Cummings and Alexander Stimpson — The Mark News — The recent Germanwings disaster has once again reminded us that human pilots are not always failsafe. One only has to look back as far as...
View ArticleReading, Writing and Reproduction: Danish Sex Education Includes Lessons on...
Op-Ed by Josephine Obel —The Mark News— It has gained global attention that sex education in Denmark will now focus on fertility as well as avoiding unwanted pregnancies. The background for this change...
View ArticleThe French initiative on Palestine: posturing, or trying to break the deadlock?
Op-Ed by Joseph Bahout — The Mark News — Of all contemporary conflicts, the Israeli–Palestinian one is probably the most enduring and resistant to any resolution attempt. The conflict, more than a...
View ArticleKiller Robots and the Laws of Man: Who’s to Blame for Mission Malfunction?
Op-Ed by Bonnie Docherty — The Mark News — What would happen if countries took a step beyond remote-controlled drones and used weapons that targeted and killed people on their own, without any human...
View ArticleMeasuring Morality: A New Index Ranks Countries by the “Good” They Create
Op-Ed by Simon Anholt — The Mark News— In the age of globalization, everything’s connected, and that’s wonderful. But so far, we’ve been more effective at globalizing problems than solutions. Consider...
View ArticleProcedural Change: Lessons from Abroad Craft A New Abortion Care Model in the...
Op-Ed by Christopher Purdy and Melissa Grant — The Mark News — One of every three women in the United States will have an abortion in her lifetime. Despite the fact that abortions are a common...
View ArticleA Smooth Transition: Our Hairy Obsession with De-fuzzing
Op-Ed by Rebecca Herzig — The Mark News — Not long ago, a 20-year-old woman was admitted to an emergency room in Australia with a high fever, rapid pulse rate, low blood pressure, and badly swollen...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? Somalia ‘s Al Shabab Memo Jeopardizes Journalists
Op-Ed by Hassan Gesey — The Mark News — More than 50 journalists have been killed in Somalia since the civil war started in 1990. It is the most dangerous place for journalists to operate in Africa....
View ArticleCairo To Cape Town: New Free Trade ‘Super Bloc’
Op-Ed by Calestous Juma and Francis Mangeni — The Mark News — A major trade deal signed in June 2015 is about to remake Africa. Dubbed the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), the 26-nation market...
View ArticleThe Cycle of Dependency: When Helping Does More Harm Than Good
Ope-Ed by Leah Pauline — The Mark News — Ever since colonization, the people of Uganda have become accustomed to foreigners coming in with a savior mentality, pushing initiatives that, despite good...
View ArticleA National Balancing Act: Security Of A Country And Privacy Of The Individual
Op-Ed by GIOVANNI BUTTARELLI — The Mark News — In 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”...
View ArticleRodrigo Duterte: The Rise of Philippines’ Death Squad Mayor
Op-Ed by Phelim Kine — The Mark News — For Rodrigo Duterte, the brutal death squads that have claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people during his tenure as mayor of Davao City in the Philippines’...
View ArticleThe New Brand Power: Mobilizing Global Solution Networks
Op-Ed by Don Tapscott — The Mark News — Using an emerging model of problem solving that relies on creating and connecting networks, brands are helping to carve out a new and powerful way to affect...
View ArticleTHE ISRAELI-TURKISH THAW: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE NOT LOVE
By JAMES F. JEFFREY — The Mark News — The rapprochement between Turkey and Israel, while not yet complete with an exchange of ambassadors, is already a reality in a Middle East that is changing before...
View ArticlePresident Obama shows lessons of history still relevant in anti-slavery struggle
By Dr. Aidan McQuade — The Mark News — In 1938 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt effectively ended child labor in the United States by prohibiting its use in interstate commerce. He couldn’t outlaw...
View ArticleEnd the War on Drugs
By Professor Michael Cox and Dr John Collins — The Mark News — Few question that the ‘war on drugs’ has been costly and ineffective. Inappropriate policies resulting from the war have destroyed...
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