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October 28, 2022[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Green Minerals: Justice and Opportunity in the Renewable Energy Transition [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“We as communities, contributed land for mining, which harbors large deposits of materials, a lot of precious metals... but we are still finding ourselves as small partners. Even key decisions are taken without meaningful participation of those communities.” -Elton Thobejane, Chairperson, Sekhukhune Combined Mining-Affected Communities
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Avoiding Economic Security Fragmentation when Europe and America Don’t See Eye to Eye Ukraine Understandably in Focus, But Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict is World’s Largest
“Decreasing critical dependencies has become a priority objective in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris. But there is a different flavor between tackling critical dependencies—in minerals, energy, or specific technologies—and what may look like an agenda of keeping China’s overall technological ability arrested.” Read more from Tobias Gehrke. “Since Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict began in November 2020, an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 combatants have taken up arms, and as many as 600,000 civilians have died in the violence,” writes Ambassador Mark Green. “With the destruction of hospitals and emergency clinics, and rampant food insecurity fueling the staggering civilian death toll, this conflict has led to several compounding humanitarian crises.”
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[link removed] [[link removed]] PublicationBuilding Up Competitiveness and the G7’s Infrastructure Ambitions
In this new collection of essays, Wilson Center’s Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific Enterprise Initiative explores how the G7 can more effectively invest in infrastructure while confronting the challenges to the Indo-Pacific regional order posed by China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
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The Impact of Misinformation on Brazil’s Elections Climate Change, Population, and the Shape of the Future
“In 2018 we had mainly memes and manipulated images circulating in WhatsApp, and this year we had more video circulating, links inside embedded video in WhatsApp as well. This makes things more complicated because they are much harder to fact check.” -Clara Becker, journalist and cofounder of the media literacy non-profit Redes Cordiais. “In 1968 when Paul Erlich wrote The Population Bomb , out of the 200 and some odd countries we have today, 125 of them had high fertility where women and girls had on average five children. Today that number is eight [countries]… efforts at family planning reproductive health education yield tremendous social and economic dividends that can help make communities more resilient in the face of environmental change.” -Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Uyghur Human Rights and the Fashion Industry
“This act said, look, we know that forced labor is a problem in Xinjiang, it is so enmeshed in the supply chain, especially cotton and tomatoes, that we can make a safe assumption that anything coming out of this region is probably tainted by forced labor.... Suddenly all of these shipments were coming in and they’re scrambling to prove that they had nothing to do with forced labor.” Fashion sustainability reporter Alden Wicker in conversation with Wilson Quarterly editor Stephanie Bowen and NOW host John Milewski about the Fall 2022 issue of the WQ, “ As Strong as Our Weakest Link [[link removed]] ,” an examination of supply chain challenges and innovations.
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Upcoming Events
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US-Mexico Security Cooperation: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary Todd Robinson [[link removed]]Monday, Oct. 31 // 10­–10:45 a.m. (ET)
No Dia Seguinte: Brazil’s Election and the Future of U.S.-Brazil Relations [[link removed]]Monday, Oct. 31 // 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)
The World Viewed from the States – A Conversation with Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson [[link removed]]Wednesday, Nov. 2 // 2–3:30 p.m. (ET)
“Ukraine: Music in Wartime” with Hobart Earle, Music Director and Principal Conductor, Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra [[link removed]]Thursday, Nov. 3 // 4­–5:30 p.m. (ET)
US Policy on Lebanon: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State for NEA Ambassador Barbara Leaf [[link removed]]Friday, Nov. 4 // 3­–4:00 p.m. (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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North Korea Raises the Nuclear Stakes (Foreign Affairs) [[link removed]]
“South Koreans are increasingly debating how their country can strengthen its deterrence. They may press Washington for the rotation of more nuclear-capable U.S. weapons systems...They could ask for the introduction of NATO-style sharing of nuclear weapons... And then there is the most radical option of all: namely, South Korea itself could go nuclear.” -Sue Mi Terry
Another Revolution in Iran? (CNN) [[link removed]]
“Today, we don’t see an organization, a leader, a manifesto, an idea. These are people of very diverse political and social positions who have come together because they want private freedoms, personal freedoms. They have not yet given us a vision.” -Robin Wright on GPS with Fareed Zakaria
Brittney Griner’s Sentencing Appeal Denied (CBS) [[link removed]]
“The idea that somehow that a diplomatic solution is at hand, or can be readily achieved, is very hard to see... I think there is a possibility of a prisoner swap... but it is by no means clear that Russia will only want a prisoner swap.” -Will Pomeranz
An Iranian American Scholar Talks About Her Time in a Notorious Tehran Prison (NPR) [[link removed]]
“It was such a horrible noise, that it would stay with me forever and ever... I was not physically tortured but mentally all the time. You know, I was threatened that they will keep me as long as it is necessary—maybe years and years in Evin [prison]—until I confess. I didn't have anything to confess, you see. So, I mean, it's worse than what you hear.” Haleh Esfandiari on Morning Edition .


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