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Reimagining U.S. Asia Policy for a Peaceful Afghanistan

This policy paper by Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow at CIC examines how the Afghan peace process provides the United States with an opportunity to pivot to a strategy that frees it from dependence on military bases in the landlocked backyard of Russia and China, and how that can provide it with an entry point to an expanded and more effective Asia policy focused on some of the most vital threats confronting humanity.

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Jan 06, 2021
Barnett Rubin
Central Asia, East Asia, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
Afghanistan, South Asia
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Annual Report 2019-2020

The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University is pleased to share our Annual Report 2019-2020. The report covers the activities and achievements of CIC and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies from October 2019 through September 2020. It describes a year in which COVID-19 has reshaped the landscape of our daily lives and working environments, while deepening our commitment to our core values of peace, justice, and inclusion and our mission of supporting evidence-based policymaking and multilateral engagement.

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Dec 21, 2020
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Congo Research Group, Humanitarian Crises, Multilateral Reform, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies , Prevention and Peacebuilding

From the Global to the Local: Leveraging International Engagement to Advance Justice at Home

This policy paper sets out how the former U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice leveraged international activity and mechanisms, including the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to advance its domestic priorities. The strategy resulted in noteable accomplishments and even protected a number of them after the office was closed in 2018. The brief recommends that the incoming Biden-Harris Administration reestablish the Office for Access to Justice, revitalize the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable charged with implementing Goal 16 for the United States, link U.S. domestic priorities to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and prioritize the United States’ role as a leader in the global movement for equal justice for all.

 

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Dec 18, 2020
Maha Jweied
United States
Global Governance

Technology and the Future of Work

Recent decades have seen rapid increases in the use of robots and rapid advances in artificial intelligence, driven particularly by improvements in machine learning. From games like chess and Go to speech recognition and image recognition, machines have come to outperform humans in an expanding range of activities. This development has motivated many attempts to gauge the impact on the future of work for humans.

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Dec 18, 2020
Ian Goldin
East Asia, Europe, United States, South Asia, India
International Security, Transnational Threats
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

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Dec 18, 2020
Ian Goldin
China, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Crises, International Security
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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