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...euro zone is now 15 members large and has a combined population of about 320 million. However, many more people are directly affected by the currency, from would-be members whose money is already pegged to it, to countries like Montenegro and Kosovo, whose effective national currency is the euro. France's former African colonies also peg their common currency to Europe's. That means about 500 million people rely on the euro or euro-pegged currencies...
...Goldstone said. He said that, partly because of the 1948 convention, there is a new ability to anticipate genocide in advance, as a result of technological progress, increased awareness, and historical perspective. Goldstone has served on many war crime commissions such as the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. He also served for nine years as a justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. After Goldstone’s keynote address, panelists, including various professors who are members of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, spoke on the same topic. One of the challenges that prevails is the language of the convention...
...effort to get other NATO countries to share the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) burden in Afghanistan, Merkel last week insisted she would not send German troops in the volatile southern region. And Sarkozy has already hinted that his forces are already stretched due to ongoing missions in Chad, Kosovo, Congo and Lebanon...
...Peacekeeping is tricky, no doubt. De Waal is among those who have questioned whether we might have set our sights too high, and whether, while peacekeeping might work in small countries like Sierra Leone or East Timor or Kosovo, there may not be the resources to make it work for vast nations like the D.R.C. or Sudan. Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister, is among those who believe that just because something is difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it." Says Evans: "In Congo, the problem is insufficient resources. Maybe MONUC has to be reinforced and upgraded. In Darfur...
...Johannesburg Bar for 17 years, including nine as a justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, established by Nelson Mandela to oversee the democratization of the country. He also helped establish another war crimes tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, chaired the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo from 1999 to 2001, and in 2004 was appointed to the UN’s Independent Inquiry Committee to investigate corruption in Iraq’s Oil for Food program. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the U.S.’s largest philanthropic organizations, with a $7 billion dollar endowment...