View from the Ground challenges Georgetown University's talented, cosmopolitan and well-traveled student body to produce insightful articles about ahead-of-the-curve issues they have observed first-hand through internships, jobs or study abroad. The articles they contribute to the Journal allow both undergraduate and graduate students to fuse coursework with real-world experience and, most importantly, participate in the foreign affairs debate that the Journal endeavors to promote.

Guinea:
An Island of Stability?

By Sarah Birgitta Kanafani

“It takes three days to solve problems here, no matter what the problem. On the first day, the crisis hits; on the second there is chaos, riots, turmoil; and on the third day, everyone loses interest and things settle down.” more...

The Seeds of Social Inclusion:
Reforming Education in Costa Rica

By Alejandro J. Ganimian

Incipient social exclusion threatens to undermine a 106-year old tradition of peace and democracy in Costa Rica. Failure of the government to address growing xenophobia and prejudice in the country has left Nicaraguan, Dominican, and—on a lesser scale—Colombian economic migrants with no other option but to endure discrimination and seclusion from Tico ingroups. more...