From Rhetoric to Reality: Advancing Women’s Participation in Peace Processes
January 15, 2021
This post is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on women’s leadership in peacebuilding and non-violent movements, in…
[The Independent]: International communities should work together in the fight against life-threatening cyberattacks
September 25, 2020
Cybercriminals are now encrypting healthcare systems for ransom payments. Virtual threats can kill, but who will hold the perpetrators to…
How COVID-19 Has Forced the Overdue Adoption of Virtual Diplomacy
July 24, 2020
When Estonia held the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council in May, it hosted the largest high-level gathering of…
Executive Director Transition Announcement
May 29, 2020
Sixteen years after Carne Ross founded Independent Diplomat (ID), the world’s first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Carne has decided to…
[Politico]: Morning Cybersecurity
September 19, 2019
It’s the first substantial discussion of the U.N. cyber group created at the initiative of Russia. Any country can participate in…
[Reuters]: The arc of history can bend towards justice for the Rohingya
July 19, 2019
What happened to the Rohingya is a stain on the history of humanity. But the arc of history has a…
[The Independent]: From conflict to compromise: Lessons in creating a state
June 27, 2019
This article first appeared in The Independent. Click here to read the original article. by Carne Ross A few days…
[Chronicle of Philanthropy]: Preventing War Should Get More of Philanthropy’s Attention
March 21, 2019
War has cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars in the 21st century. Yet philanthropic grants for peace and security accounted for just…
[Financial Times]: Give refugees a voice and let us shape our own futures
June 26, 2018
This article first appeared in the Financial Times, click here to read the original article. by Mohammed Badran Sometimes, while…
ID Executive Director Carne Ross Speaks on the Consequences of the Firing of the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Al Jazeera
March 20, 2018
What are the consequences of the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson? It will cause considerable alarm in the…