Preventing Peacekeeper Abuse Through Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping

” … If the UN is serious about change, it should consider adopting an equal opportunity peacekeeping model, a model that focuses on larger gender inequalities in missions as a way to ensure that the overall quality of peacekeeping missions improve,” writes political scientist Kyle Beardsley. “Only then might the reduction of sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping missions be possible.”

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CFOs To Trump: Stop Tweeting, Lose Border Tax

Chief financial officers in the United States are concerned about how President Donald Trump’s off-the-cuff Twitter posts and public comments affect business, a new Fuqua School survey finds. Results also show that CFOs are feeling the most confident about economic growth than they’ve been in more than a dozen years, and they strongly support several of the president’s initiatives. “(CFOs) don’t like the fluctuations and uncertainty that result from how President Trump communicates to the public, but they say many of his ideas will be good for business, even some of the more controversial ones,” says finance professor John Graham, director of the survey.

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What’s Next For The Prison At Guantánamo?

The Trump administration is contemplating plans to expand detention at the site, and possibly extend the scope of military justice to terrorist suspects in the United States. Whether courts might uphold such a plan is another question. “The correct answer to that is, no, because the Constitution’s Treason Clause makes clear that citizens who act as an enemy are to be treated under criminal law,” says professor Madeline Morris, a former State Department adviser on international and counterterrorism law who now directs the Guantanamo Defense Clinic at Duke Law School.

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Why A Russia Probe May Make The Left Squirm, Too, Not Just The Right

“If conducted thoroughly and impartially, the Russia probe could generate not just answers to troubling questions, but also thoughtful and even cathartic discussion. However, everyone should be prepared — regardless of where they may be on the political spectrum — for moments of real discomfort. But maybe that’s exactly the right prescription these days for America’s profoundly distressed political environment,” writes law professor Charlie Dunlap.

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Trump’s Streamlined Travel Ban Still Faces Headwinds

“Even though this order is calmer, more professionally executed, and less likely to cause mass chaos that its predecessor,” says professor David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security,  the order “symbolizes that America fears engagement with the outside world and believes national security is advanced by building barriers that isolate America.”

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Trump’s Claim About Terrorism Convictions Since 9/11

If terrorism includes any act of violence motivated by politics, then you would include both the ideologies of al-Qaida and ISIS, as well as the ideologies of white supremacism, says Sanford School professor David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. “If you look at the phenomenon of terrorism as a whole, then there are a lot of citizens committing terrorism, whether connected with foreign organizations or ideologies or domestic ones,” Schanzer says.

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The Case for Welcoming Immigrant Families

Research shows Hispanic children in the U.S. worry a lot more than their non-Hispanic peers. Some told researchers they feared their parents would be taken from them and sent away. Given that more than one in four U.S. children live in a family with at least one immigrant parent, associate professor Anna Gassman-Pines argues we should work toward helping parents and their children feel integrated into U.S. society rather than isolated.

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