Review: Inside the Asylum–Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse Than You Think
4.0 out of 5 stars Sensible Insights Against the United Nations, January 27, 2005
Review: Leadership and the New Science–Discovering Order in a Chaotic World Revised
5.0 out of 5 stars “Tipping Point” Book Vital to Government, Not Just Business, January 22, 2005
Review DVD: Tibet – Cry of the Snow Lion (2003)
5.0 out of 5 stars Liberation through Knowledge: Absorbing, January 15, 2005
2004 Gill (US) Open Wireless Spectrum and Democracy
Jock Gill served President Bill Clinton as a communications specialist, and has gone on to reflect deeply on public communications as the inherent foundation of democracy. As part of that process he has recognized–and taught us and others–that open spectrum as championed by David Weinberger is an inherent “need” for full and open public communications. …
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2004 Palmer (US) Achieving Universal Democracy by Eliminating All Dictators within the Decade
Ambassador Mark Palmer is one of the most thoughtful, focused, practical, and hence impressive professional diplomats we have ever encountered. His book, Defeating the Real Axis of Evil, made a profound impression on all of us thinking about how to create a prosperous world at peace, and was the final nail in the coffin of …
2004 Defense Science Board Report on Transitions to and from Hostilities
This report has two bottom-lines, neither of which has been operatiionalized despite lip-service to making peace operations co-equal to war operations: 1. Non-Governmental Organizations are the majority players now 2. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the common language
2004 Tongeren (NL) A Need for a Global Alliance for Human Security
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Mr. Paul van Tongeren OSS ’04: To Mr. Paul van Tongeren, leader, educator, advocate, and pioneer in the prevention and resolution of conflict. As Executive Director of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention, his is a critical voice in facilitating peace through hinter-disciplinary study, cross-cultural communication, and the creation of Open Source …
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