Tackling the Global Unemployment Crisis in the Interests of Peace

Widespread unemployment, especially among young men, creates conditions that are ripe for social unrest, radicalization, and crime. This was the case in Europe and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, and is the case in the Middle East and elsewhere now. How can the U.S. government and private sector investors accelerate economic development in countries with high unemployment and rising violence? Participants include: Robert Johnson - President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Robert Hormats - Former Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy & the Environment Pavlina Tcherneva - Associate Professor & Chair of the Department of Economics at Bard College Daniel Alpert - Founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital, LLC David Bank - CEO & Editor of ImpactAlpha Visit our website: http://bit.ly/RvtWeb Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/RvtTwr Like us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/RvtFb Add us on Google+: http://bit.ly/RvtGplus About this series: Should we fundamentally reorient how America relates to the rest of the world in an era when most of our biggest challenges are global in nature and planetary in scale? The Reinvent Foreign Policy Series will ask the questions that frequently don’t get asked among American policymakers and try to propose new kinds of solutions. It will begin with no preconceptions, except that America has made a lot of costly mistakes and needs to learn how to do better. About Reinvent: Reinvent gathers top innovators in video conversations to fundamentally reinvent our world.