#aidanddevelopment — Public Fediverse posts

Folks, I want to share this here, as we approach the fall semester. Because of my background, I got asked a couple years ago to partner with the Director of this program to help guide it.

During that time, as you might imagine, I've been asked a lot what the future looks like for this discipline when the nazis are running the U.S. military and decimating the Intelligence Community because it watched their #Trumpenfuhrer sell us all out to the Kremlin (and bcause we keep presenting him with inconvenient facts that contradict the #narrative he's peddling to abduct or murder a foreign head of state, or flatten (or threaten to steal) their country.

What I've been telling them is that now more than ever WE NEED educated professionals in this discipline--not to rebuild the old, U.S. dominated "free world" when (in sha' Allah) we get our democracy back, but precisely to help us build SOMETHING NEW AND BETTER: a federated (guess where I got THAT idea 😉) system of GLOBAL resilience in which NO superpower can dominate; in which colonialism's VICTIMS stand forward and make themselves heard, while its rich PERPETRATORS sit down, shut up for a while, and largely just help out where we're asked.

And we need those professionals OUTSIDE traditional governments and state-based institutions, too: ya think @amnesty needs intelligence analysts or folks who can navigate complex global security issues? Ya think @DoctorsWithoutBorders does? Maybe @oxfam? Sure they do--and we need TO HEAR THEIR VOICES in those conversations if what comes next is gonna BE BETTER THAN what went before, in the ways it needs to be.

So if that sounds intriguing, go ahead--snap that QR code and give us a look. This fall, I'm going to be personally teaching an #ethics for national security and intelligence professionals course built around my wife's #metamodernist framework for DECISION-MAKING ethics AS DESIGN, explored through case studies on issues like data rights & #privacy, trustWORTHY #ArtificialIntelligence, #AutonomousSystems, #SurveillanceCapitalism, ethics in the #Humanitarian and #AidAndDevelopment sectors, and the ethics of intelligence & security #accountability in democratic societies. I'd love for some of you to join us, and broaden our frame of reference!