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Healing our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission

This event will explore current research on race in the US, fifty years after the Kerner Report, and will be followed by the launch of a new publication by the Eisenhower Foundation.

Threatened Peoples Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy

 
This 1994 Assembly was convened in the wake of disturbing international emergencies in Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda, and other nations.  The report advocated identifying instruments of U.S. foreign policy that can reduce unwanted migration, promote human rights, and work to achieve democracy.  A book by the same title was published by The American Assembly the following year.

 

Threatened Peoples Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy

1994

This report from a 1994 Assembly was written in the wake of disturbing international emergencies in Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda, and other nations.  The report advocated identifying instruments of U.S. foreign policy that can reduce unwanted migration, with promotion of human rights and achievement of democracy at the top of the list.  A book by the same title was published by The American Assembly the following year.

Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders

1995. Michael S. Teitelbaum (ed.), Myron Weiner (ed.)

This 1995 book came in the wake of tragic developments in Bosnia, Haiti, and Rwanda, revealing just how urgent these issues are--as experts in the field show in these timely and thought-provoking essays.

Prisoners in America

This 1972 Assembly examined mass incarceration in America and its disportionate impact on minority groups.

Prisoners in America

1972. The American Assembly
This report from a 1972 Assembly of the same name discussed the chronic problems of the criminal justice system in America.  The resulting report focused on the need to address the wider social and economic inequalities that contribute to crime and condemned the disproportionate imprisonment of minorities.
 

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