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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Tackling Tax Havens Article
G-8 leaders from left, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, and French President Francois Hollande attend a working session during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP/Jewel Samad, Pool)

Tackling Tax Havens

Wholesale tax evasion, particularly in the developing world, can have devastating effects.

Akinyi Ochieng

Atrocities Prevention Board Report
A skull lies near the bottom of a recently excavated mass grave at the site of the 1994 Nyamata, Rwanda, Roman Catholic Church massacre, Wednesday, August 6, 1997. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Atrocities Prevention Board

With the Atrocities Prevention Board having just completed its first anniversary, it's time to take a look at its accomplishments, challenges, and potential for growth.

John Norris, Annie Malknecht

John Podesta on the U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda Video

John Podesta on the U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda

In this video, Center for American Progress Chair John Podesta, who served on the U.N. High-Level Panel, discusses the panel's recommendations to eradicate poverty and transform world economies through sustainable development.

John Podesta

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

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