How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And Each Other

Jennifer Percy Against all odds, Iraq’s religious tourism infrastructure has endured. Thirty-five miles north of Mosul, Iraq, about an hour’s drive from Islamic State territory, was the Garden of Eden. I stood with my interpreter, Salar, a local Iraqi journalist. “See that smoke between the mountain…
Against all odds: using the SDGs to overcome fragility

Gary Milante and Kate Sullivan As evidence demonstrating the relationship between conflict and underdevelopment mounts, the task of building and sustaining global peace seems almost unattainable. This relationship is particularly precarious in countries experiencing high levels of fragility, where a…