The Coalition to Protect Against Misinformation: an answer to a wholly global issue
3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 “Peanut butter cups can cause cancer!” proclaimed conspiracy theorist David Wolfe on Facebook in 2017. The claim is ob...
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Coming to Consensus: Ensuring Privacy at the Global Level
2nd Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 From 1999 to 2019, the world underwent a 1125% increase in the percent of the global population using the internet[1]....
Ensuring Cooperation for Central Asia’s Water Woes
1st Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 On April 28, 2021, border personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan fired on each other, marking the beginning of a bor...
Japanese Culture and Government: How Culture Influences Politics, Governance, and Priorities
3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 臭い物に蓋 — Put a lid on what smells bad. This Japanese saying reflects the nation’s culture of desiring to melt...
Once Again with the Church and the State: Russian Orthodox Faith in Characterizing Contemporary National Politics
Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 “The conversion of Prince Vladimir and the whole of Rus to Orthodoxy were of truly historic significance and played a f...
Upholding French Secularism at the expense of the French Muslim Identity
Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 On March 30th, 2021, The French Senate voted in favor of adding an amendment to the “Separatism Bill” that seeks to ban...
Hope In a Whirlwind of Adversity: Rio De Janeiro’s Favelas
1st Place High School Essay Contest 2021 Along the alleys and narrow streets that line Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, the informal settlements whose distinctive red ...
Differing Conceptions of Citizenship: Nehru, Gandhi and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
In December 2019, the Parliament of India passed a law entitled the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The CAA, endorsed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata...
Citizenship: The Right to Rights and Duties
“To celebrate citizenship is one way for society to show that it is something valuable which strengthens the community.” ~Jens Orback, 2006 The concept of cit...
The Social Contract of Citizenship
Current political discourse has brought the nuances of citizenship to the forefront of the nation’s psyche. News outlets are rife with reports of injustices per...