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Hospital-Based Newborn Hearing Screening Across The Globe: A Systematic Review & Preliminary Report On Guatemala’s Program
(2019-05)Background: An average of 3 out of every 1000 children are born with a hearing loss. Both hearing screening and intervention services have a significant positive impact on these children. The current study focused on ... -
Humanitarian Aid under Stress: Assessing the Role of NGOs
(2019)Humanitarian NGOs currently face many challenges that inhibit their ability to deliver aid and place the humanitarian principles under stress. The politicization of aid by both donor and host governments has influenced the ... -
Opportunities and Challenges in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region
(2019)This Task Force focuses on three key areas that U.S. policies have to address in order to capitalize on opportunities and meet challenges in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region: 1. Political issues that require the U.S. to increase ... -
The Future of U.S. Foreign Aid: Comparisons and Recommendations
(2018)Foreign assistance constitutes a key instrument in the United States’ foreign policy, and how the U.S. government provides aid significantly impacts both other donor and recipient countries. The donor countries of primary ... -
BREXIT: How to Shape Britain’s New Rela-tionship with the European Union
(2018)On June 23, 2016 Britain voted to leave the EU, since then the public and government have struggled to understand the implications and formulate a plan for the future. With the formal exit date fast approaching, how the ... -
Positioning Washington State in the NewSpace Race
(2018)This report highlights the central role Washington state can play in fostering the next generation of space startups as a renowned space hub. The NewSpace industry is estimated to become a trillion-dollar industry by 2030, ... -
The New State of the News: Confronting Misinformation in the Digital Age
(2018)The circulation of misinformation is nothing new; it has been around for centuries in the form of information manipulation, rumor-spreading, and state-sponsored propaganda. So why now, in the digital age, have we just ... -
The End of Democracy? Global Trends of Democratic Erosion and Cases of Persistence
(2019)Democracy is not as stable as it once was. Confidence in the democratic system was established in the post-1989 world following the fall of the Soviet Union. However, studies indicate that this confidence has withered over ... -
The Global Implications of Populism on Democracy
(2018)The election of Donald J. Trump as the U.S. President in 2016, Brexit, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France—these are just a few of the recent events that ... -
Energy and climate change: Nonpartisan policies for the next U.S. President
(2019)The world currently stands at a crossroads in terms of its energy future. The two choices laid before us could not be more stark. Either mankind can continue to burn fossil fuels at an astonishing rate and suffer the ... -
North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Understanding the Threat, Avoiding War5, Crafting Future Options
(2018)Since its first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has progressed rapidly and defiantly toward its goal of becoming a nuclear weapons state able to reach the continental US with its warheads. Despite many attempts at ... -
NATO: Building resiliency and integrity against Russian hybrid warfare threats
(2019)Hybrid threats are not a new concept. However, the resurgence of an aggressive Russia has led to an increase in dangerous activity and the practice of new techniques. Hybrid threats put NATO in a complicated position as ... -
Making trans-Atlantic relations work for Europeans
(2019)For more than six decades, the transatlantic alliance has provided security and prosperity to the people of Europe and the United States. The United States and European Union’s shared commitment to the most fundamental ... -
NATO and Russia: Strengthening the Alliance and Improving Resilience
(2018)The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Russian Federation, which will be re-ferred to in this paper as Russia, have a long history of contention that stems from the Cold War and is present to this day. After ... -
Germany and the Baltic Sea Region: Proposals for the New Federal Government
(2018)The Baltic Sea Region (BSR), consisting of Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, has increasingly become a theater for confrontation between Russia and the West. As the largest ... -
Reconstructing Syria: Resettling Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
(2019)This report examines the key issues impacting the resettlement of Syrian refugees and IDPs. Many indicators point to the civil war in Syria reaching an end with Bashar al-Assad’s regime still in power. As of December 2018, ... -
Removing the rose-colored glasses: Resetting U.S. - Turkey relations
(2019)In the midst of a shifting global landscape, the U.S.-Turkey relationship is in a volatile state. Although historically allies, Turkey and the U.S. have begun to drift apart as a result of Turkey’s rising selfconfidence ... -
The Future of U.S. Migration Policy: Addressing and Improving the Current System
(2018)The United States has historically acted as a beacon for international migrants, many seeking the ideological “American Dream” that has been preserved within the foundation of the United States’ national identity. Despite ... -
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deports tens of thousands of people each year through a system in which abuse is endemic and oversight is nonexistent. By failing to either regulate ICE or hold it accountable for abuse, the U.S. Federal Government is violating the human rights of deportees. This report focuses on the final link in the deportation process: ICE Air Operations deportation flights. We begin with an analysis of ICE Air data released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from FY 2011-2018. In conjunction with analysis of this data, investigation into federal agency policy demonstrates that ICE Air Operations procedure is inconsistent, ambiguous, and unregulated. Secondly, we describe human rights abuses that have occurred aboard flights and analyze the efficacy of external accountability mechanisms, finding that while such abuses likely violate numerous U.S. statutes and international human rights agreements, privatized chains of contracting and subcontracting relationships mean there is virtually no accessible channel for oversight or remedy. The opacity of these private business relationships is demonstrated through the case study of King County, an immigrant-friendly jurisdiction that is nonetheless complicit in deportation flights, with an average of 300 deportees picked up from King County International Airport each month.Flight risk: ICE Air’s secrecy and systemic abuse in King County and beyond
(2019)U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deports tens of thousands of people each year through a system in which abuse is endemic and oversight is nonexistent. By failing to either regulate ICE or hold it accountable ... -
A Review of Hemp as a Sustainable Agricultural Commodity: Tools and Recommendations for Winona LaDuke’s Hemp Farm and Sovereign Native American Tribes
(2018)This Task Force researched options for integrating economic and ecological sustainability into any society, focusing on the feasibility of creating a private hemp business that is led by Winona LaDuke in Minnesota. Hemp ...
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