Our country’s global war on terror has failed to reduce terrorism. Congress needs to fully invest in conflict prevention. This is the conclusion of a taskforce on extremism in fragile states which released an interim report early in September.
During my fellowship at FCNL, I learned about the importance of advocating for U.S. policies that promote peace building and the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict. Now I am on the ground in Rwanda to learn how they are working to rebuild and reconcile communities following the 1994 genocide, which killed between 500,000 and 1 million people.
Prisoners conducted a national strike to call attention to the conditions in prisons from Aug. 21 to Sept. 9.
The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any other country in the world. Increasingly, women are making up the fastest growing demographic behind bars.
This year we have seen some of the most extreme and disastrous weather events in recent memory. Wildfires ravaged large stretches of land near my hometown in northern California and burned thousands of structures in Santa Barbara last year. In 2018 things have gotten worse.
In May, the administration started systematically separating children from their parents as families sought safety and asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, as the administration scrambles to reunite all children with their parents, they are moving toward a new policy: jail families together, indefinitely.
Amid a Washington frenzied these past weeks over hurricanes, high-level convictions, tell-all books, and high-stakes nomination hearings, you might not have heard that Congress has just reached a final deal for a massive $717 billion Pentagon spending measure.
Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Adam Smith (WA-09) announced that they will soon be introducing legislation to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen which has plunged it into the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
Standing up against torture shouldn’t be a cause for celebration; it should be a baseline. But in the post-9/11 United States, John McCain’s moral clarity that torture is wrong, always, was critical to creating a broader public conversation and consensus.
The Senate took an important step forward in support of conflict prevention with introduction of the Global Fragility and Violence Reduction (GFVR) Act, S.3368, on August 22.
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