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'No one leaves anymore'. How Ethiopia's restored drylands offer hope

Cathy Watson

August 03, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Mekelle

Environmental refugees in Ethiopia flee their country because there are no jobs without healthy land. A group of former refugees have returned to Ethiopia with a business venture in Gergera to improve the land by regreening efforts, foresting, and building water conservation systems. The new businesses demonstrated such positive effects that the region is now on the brink of resettlement due to improved environmental conditions.

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Barriers to Reforming Police Practices

Tina Rosenberg

August 02, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

With the police killings of Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, and other black lives across the country, the problem remains how to reform police departments and reduce excessive force on unarmed men and women. Procedural justice is a strategy that centers on legitimizing the law for at-risk communities by building trust, so that the environment of policing changes to one of respect and less crime results. Procedural justice has begun to be implemented across U.S. police departments with some measurable successes, although police accountability remains important and should be an extension of the strategy.

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How A Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away From ISIS

Hanna Rosin

July 15, 2016 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Denmark, Aarhus

Muslim youths in Denmark were leaving to join ISIS in Syria, feeling they were being persecuted in Europe. Then the police in Aarhus responded in a completely unexpected way: They apologized.

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The New Officer Friendly, Armed With Instagram, Tweets and Emojis

Katie Rogers

July 13, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, North Little Rock, Arkansas

With so much police brutality upon black men in the news, police departments across the country have been perceived with suspicion and fear. A police officer in North Little Rock has sought to change the perspective of the police through videos on social media and actions toward community policing.

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Designing an Active, Healthier City

Meera Senthilingam

July 12, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Obesity is at an all-time high in the United States, and is hard to combat. But urban obesity can be countered with inviting streets to stroll, dramatic staircases to climb, parks to exercise in - it’s called “active design.”

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‘Tough Love': Harlem Gang Expert Visiting Jackson

Maya Miller

July 06, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Dr. Kai Smith runs GRAAFICS, Gang Diversion, Reentry And Absent Fathers Intervention Centers, a program he founded to give young men and women an outlet to avoid criminal behavior. The program includes training courses in behavior modification and focuses especially on early prevention of violent behaviors in children through meaningful mentorship.

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Homeless soccer players will shoot for their goal in downtown SF

Kevin Fagan

July 06, 2016 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Homelessness can make an individual feel alienated and disconnected from society. Street Soccer USA is an annual tournament in which homeless and underprivileged people from the street are invited to participate. Some participants have been inspired to turn their lives around through the team relationships and support.

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Can You Make Bankers Behave Better?

Helena Merriman

July 05, 2016 |

BBC |

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Response Location: United States, Minnesota

What if you could figure out a way to nudge bankers into making decisions with more integrity, in order to avoid future financial woes? Can a sense of safety and ethics be forced into company culture? The Inquiry takes a look inside Goldman Sachs and meets with a regulator who is deploying psychologists in banks.

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Ugly Is the New Look for Cigarette Packs

Tina Rosenberg

July 05, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United Kingdom

During the twentieth century, imagery on cigarette packs communicated that smoking was cool and young, and it encouraged young people, as well as adults, to smoke. In 2012, Australia started “unbranding the pack,” which standardized cigarettes without a brand and showed the physically gruesome effects of smoking with health factoids on the packaging. Since then, the World Health Organization has recommended this new kind of packaging and the idea has spread to other countries to scale the success.

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Tiny Interventions Can Help Reverse Our Sky-High College Dropout Rate

Ben Paynter

June 30, 2016 |

FastCompany |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The rate of students dropping out of college or failing to complete their degree in the allotted time has soared in the United States, and experts are discovering that one of the causes is simply that students feel isolated, discouraged, and overwhelmed. A study by Ideas42 across a number of universities revealed that fairly simple behavioral "nudging" - or the process of providing tiny but regular interventions and encouragement through systems like text messages - can have a drastic impact on a student's likelihood of success.

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