Tom Palmer & the Atlas Global Initiative

Atlas has entered into a friendly transaction with the Cato Institute, to bring to Atlas Tom Palmer and the team he has built to advance the ideas of liberty in a dozen different languages.   These projects – which involve Web sites, student seminars, translations and other print publications, viral video, and student essay contests – are now organized as the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity. (Follow the link for a full description of this work, and links to the Web sites that it has sponsored.)

Tom Palmer is now vice president for International Programs at Atlas, and the general director of the Atlas Global Initiative. He remains a Senior Fellow with the Cato Institute.

The transaction creates a number of exciting synergies that will expand Atlas’s outreach in parts of the world that have too little activity devoted to the ideas of liberty; at the same time, those who are exposed to products of the Atlas Global Initiative will now be linked into the Atlas network and the portfolio of training, networking and grant/prize programs that Atlas administers.

Atlas is deeply grateful to Ed Crane and its other friends at Cato who have entrusted these important projects to us.  We expect to be busily reporting, over coming weeks and months, the accomplishments that will be achieved as we capitalize on having the Atlas Global Initiative team in-house at Atlas.

In addition to Tom, this team includes the following individuals as staff or regular contributors:

• Nadine Abdallah, PR Manager,Minbaralhurriyya.org
• David Archer, Program Writer and Development Assistant
• Jude Blanchette, Program Officer, Asia
• Patrick Boylan, Information and Measurement Coordinator
• Diogo Costa, Editor, OrdemLivre.org
• Kristina Crane, Operations Manager
• Peshwaz Faizulla, Editor, Chiraiazadi.org and Managing Editor, Cheragheazadi.org
  
• Bruno Garschagen, Institutional Relations Manager, OrdemLivre.org
• Nouh el Harmouzi, Editor, Minbaralhurriyya.org
• Diqing Jiang, Editor, Tiandaocn.org
• Anna Krasinskaya, Editor, InLiberty.ru
• Youcef Maouchi, Contributor, Unmondelibre.org
• Emmanual Martin, Editor, Unmondelibre.org
• Hicham El Moussaoui, Contributor, Unmondelibre.org
• Eric Mawudeki, Webmaster, Africanliberty.org
• Mohammad Jahan Parvar, Editor, Cheragheazadi.org
• Pedro Sette Camara e Silva, Operations Associate, OrdemLivre.org
• Adedayo Thomas, Publisher, Africanliberty.org
• Haitham Kamil al-Zubbaidi, Senior Editor and Translator, Minbaralhurriyya.org

The Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace and Prosperity also works with other long time Atlas partners, such as Free Minds Association (Azerbaijan), Alternate Solutions Institute (Pakistan), Malaysia Think Tank, and Center for Civil Society (India) to produce internet platforms in Azerbaijani, Urdu, Bahasa Melayu/Indonesian and Hindi.