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Stopping Killer Robots Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control.
"This report shows how 97 countries have responded to the challenge of "Killer Robots" and elaborated their views on lethal autonomous weapons systems since the matter was first discussed at the Human Rights Council in 2013.[5] It surveys where these countries stand on calls to ban fully autonomous weapons and retain meaningful human control over the use of force." (Human Rights Watch, 2020)
Transitional Justice And Social Cohesion (Re)Construction In African Countries During The Covid-19 Pandemic
A new report, ‘Global Democracy and COVID-19: Upgrading International Support’, was published on 15 July and highlights how some governments are using the public health crisis to further curtail democratic activities and provides recommendations for policymakers and civil society to counteract the negative impacts of COVID-19 on democracy. (IDEA, 2020).
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights In Constitutions Assessment Tool
The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Constitutions Assessment Tool helps users analyze a constitution from the perspective of indigenous peoples’ rights. Using a series of questions, explanations and examples from other global constitutions, the Assessment Tool guides its users through the text of a constitution and allows for systematic analysis of the language and provisions in it. (Cats-Baril, 2020).
Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
"Applying MGI’s micro-to-macro methodology, this report considers the issues and investment choices facing individual companies as well as the implications for global value chains, trade, and national economies. . It builds on a large multiyear body of MGI research on topics such as global value chains and flows, manufacturing, digitization, and climate risk" (McKinsey & Company, 2020).
American Views 2020: Trust, Media And Democracy
"At a time when factual, trustworthy information is especially critical to public health and the future of our democracy, the striking trends documented here are cause for concern. American Views offers new insights into how the public is responding to these challenges in their own media consumption and their thoughts about how to address them" (Knight Foundation, 2020).
Measuring Progress Toward Downtown Revitalization
"Knight commissioned Community Science to conduct a review of existing research on downtown revitalization, equitable economic development and public space activation to investigate these questions. The purpose of this report is to share learnings about what to measure in order to support similar efforts, post-COVID-19 recovery and steps to eliminate racial inequities in United States cities" (Knight Foundation, 2020).
Engaging Public Spaces: A Review And Toolkit
This report reviews “existing research on downtown revitalization, equitable economic development and public space activation to investigate” the question “As communities across the country work to revitalize downtowns and neighborhoods, which metrics indicate progress or success?” (Knight Foundation, 2020).
American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy
“The low levels of public trust in the nation's polarized media environment have left open the possibility for dangerous false narratives to take root” and…”the striking trends documented in these pages are cause for concern” (American Academy of Art & Sciences, 2020).
"The Whole of Liberal Democracy is In Grave Danger..."
“In other words, there is one more item to add to the constantly growing list of factors driving polarization in America: Those on the left and right appear to use substantially different cognitive processes to interpret events in the world around them, large and small” (Thomas B. Edsall, 2020).
Global Democracy & Covid-19
This report considers the implications that COVID-19 has had on international democracy. The use of practice policies efforts needs to ensure that current democratic norms are altered including emergency and recovery aid and efforts to explore growth in new types of democracies that have come out of the pandemic. (IDEA, 2020).
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