OSI's Cooperative Global Engagement Project, in collaboration with the United Nations Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, funded a Council on Foreign Relations study that examines the current national security strategy as well as alternative ways to address the threats facing the United States.
The paper, one in a series of Council Policy Initiatives, offers three approaches to national security policy in the form of presidential speeches. The study is being used as the basis for debates over the 2003 summer in Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston. OSI-Washington, D.C. and the report's other two funders have adapted the material for use by college students in holding their own debates on national security policy.
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National Security and Human Rights
Rebuilding and Resilience: 20 Years Since 9/11
![A woman who lost a relative in the 9/11 attacks pauses at the National September 11 Memorial during a commemoration ceremony on September 11, 2019, in New York City. Photo credit: © Spencer Platt/Getty A woman standing at the September 11 memorial](https://opensocietyfoundations.imgix.net/uploads/e7f1a3d1-3e63-4c9b-af96-6694b146040a/20210910-platt-september-11-memorial-3000.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=200&q=80&rect=0%2C125%2C3000%2C1875)
On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Open Society shares reflections from partners on the road traveled since—and the hard work still ahead.
19 Shameful Years
Torture’s Terrible Toll
![Protesters hold banners in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 2016. Photo credit: © Erkan Avci/Anadolu/Getty A large banner in front of the White House that says “Shut Down Guantanamo”](https://opensocietyfoundations.imgix.net/uploads/a0fd556c-d855-43b0-98cc-65a3d74a9b1a/20200111-avci-washington-dc-guatanamo-3000.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=200&q=80&rect=0%2C125%2C3000%2C1875)
The horror stories emanating from Guantanamo Bay shock the conscience. It is long past time to close the prison.
Standing Up to Big Brother
Q&A: A Big Step for Global Privacy Rights
![The chair of the Society for Freedom Rights (right) and the managing director of Reporters Without Borders (left) stand with a symbolic octopus that is meant to represent one of Germany’s intelligence agencies, at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, on January 14, 2020. Photo credit: © Ronald Wittek/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Two people stand with a grey octopus cutout balancing mobile phones](https://opensocietyfoundations.imgix.net/uploads/58b4b73a-93e3-49ae-a0e6-c8faca2e7134/20200716-wittek-germany-bnd-surveillance-3000.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=200&q=80&rect=0%2C63%2C3000%2C1875)
By ruling against a government intelligence agency, one of the most powerful courts in Germany has struck a blow for data privacy and free expression.