Sustainable Security

Sustainable security redefines how we think about national security in today's shifting, globalized world. Instead of focusing solely on traditional threats, we also need to help spur greater prosperity, encourage effective international development, and work to protect innocent civilians. Such an approach is good for us and good for others. In short, sustainable security is thinking long term about America and the world.
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Sustainable Security Project and the Post-2015 Development Agenda Article

Sustainable Security Project and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

The Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative is broadly engaging with many actors regarding the work of the U.N. High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, and conducting targeted research and analysis to help advance progress in creating a more prosperous, connected, and resilient world.

The Turning Point in Spending for Combating HIV/AIDS Article
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi after attending a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, Transition Signing, Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at the Delft South Clinic in Delft South, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Turning Point in Spending for Combating HIV/AIDS

Developing countries are now outspending international investments in combating HIV/AIDS, and the United States should do more to bolster this encouraging trend.

Casey Dunning, John Norris

Engagement Amid Austerity Report
America’s investments in diplomacy, development, and international trade  are extremely valuable and any cuts should not undermine our strategic  priorities or values. (AP/ B.K. Bangash)

Engagement Amid Austerity

John Norris and Connie Veillette offer a bipartisan report trying to determine how we can make the most efficient and effective use of scarce resources, reform our foreign affairs institutions, and defend our core national interests amid major budget uncertainty.

John Norris, Connie Veillette

It All Starts with Training Report
Conflict prevention training for our foreign affairs personnel would better serve our foreign affairs agencies, and it would make it so our military personnel are less likely over time to be deployed in direct conflict. That will save both lives and treasure in the long run. (AP/Marko Drobnjakovic)

It All Starts with Training

John Norris, Abigail Long, Sarah Margon, and David Abramowitz explain why the United States should invest more in conflict prevention training.

John Norris, Abigail Long, Sarah Margon, 1 More Sarah Margon

Unintended Roadblocks Report
People walk through the Afghan enclave of Katchi Abadi near Islamabad, Pakistan. One aid group working in the region only accepts small U.S. government grants instead of larger, multiyear ones because doing so means they can avert the need to collect personnel information, which can undermine relationships with local communities. These programs, however, can have less of an impact because they reach less people and run for a shorter time period. (AP/Laura Rauch)

Unintended Roadblocks

Report from Sarah Margon identifies the legislative and policy hurdles that make it difficult for aid groups to do their jobs and how these can be dealt with.

Sarah Margon

Twenty Years of Collapse and Counting Report
Somali's demonstrate against high food prices earlier this year in the capital Mogadishu. Troops opened fire and killed at least two people among tens of thousands of people rioting. (AP/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Twenty Years of Collapse and Counting

John Norris and Bronwyn Bruton look at the case of Somalia to explore the high cost crisis response rather than prevention.

John Norris, Bronwyn Bruton

The Limits of U.S. Assistance to Pakistan Report
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. (AP/ Kevin Lamarque)

The Limits of U.S. Assistance to Pakistan

Colin Cookman, Brian Katulis, Sarah Margon, and Caroline Wadhams look at ways to streamline aid to Pakistan while making it more effective.

Colin Cookman, Brian Katulis, Sarah Margon, 1 More Caroline Wadhams

International War Crimes and Justice Interactive

International War Crimes and Justice

A slideshow from John Norris and Sarah Margon shows how many senior war criminals have been held accountable for their actions.

John Norris, Sarah Margon

After Turkey’s June Elections Report

After Turkey’s June Elections

Michael Werz, Caroline Wadhams, Matthew Duss, and Sarah Margon on what Turkey's June elections mean for for U.S. foreign policy in the region.

Michael Werz, Caroline Wadhams, Matthew Duss, 1 More Sarah Margon

Afghan Aid Under the Microscope Article
Former President George W. Bush, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrive for a joint press conference after their meetings, Monday, August 6, 2007, at Camp David, Maryland. Bush was eager to give Karzai a pass for much of his misbehavior because he viewed him as a key strategic ally, but the weakness and rot of many Afghan institutions have made it all that much harder to achieve both our development and security objectives. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Afghan Aid Under the Microscope

Spending all the development funds in the world will not substitute for an actual functioning Afghan government, writes John Norris.

John Norris

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