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The Blog: On The Edge - toward public policy that is visionary, effective, courageous and compassionate

Welcome to my blog on public policy, a place for exploring ideas on the policy problems that test our times. This space is for discussion, co-learning, collaboration and—I hope—organizing actions. Some of my own views come from fifteen years in the US Foreign Service, most of them spent way off the beaten track. Some come from my career since then as an activist, coach and mentor to activists, and President of the Giraffe Heroes Project, moving people to stick their necks out for the common good. —John Graham

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Afghanistan—Winning Lessons from Vietnam

There are many differences between our wars in Vietnam and in Afghanistan. There are also similarities we can’t ignore, including the vital need for an indigenous government that commands broad-based popular support.

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How Do We Be Safe?

I saw the possibility of a just and peaceful world last week--at a conference on a mountain in Switzerland. The (second annual) Caux Forum on Human Security was no Davos nor G-8 Summit. No media were invited. While the 300 invitees included some global VIPS, the key criterion for being there was not celebrity, but a personal history of creativity and courage in addressing public problems. The guests were people like:

The Health Care We Deserve

The givens: our country over decades has jerry-built a health care “system” that is unfair and inefficient. We pay far more for far less care than any other industrialized nation. And we have forty million people uninsured for whom a major illness can mean mortgaging a home, not sending a kid to college, or worse.

Now the country is finally beginning to address health care reform in a meaningful way, in what could well be the most important domestic policy debate since the New Deal.

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