This timely new program to advance North American cooperation through working with local communities has great potential. We established a trinational Advisory Committee, and a Steering Committee which will work closely with project manager Shalie Gasper in the Santa Fe office. It encourages traditional building techniques and works to retain cultural heritage and foster civic pride through historic preservation.
Cornerstones maintains a large, loyal volunteer base.
The Center for North American Studies at Duke University is Duke's newest interdisciplinary international center and focuses on the political, social, and cultural consequences of regionalization, and attempts to place them within the long history of the interaction of Canada and Mexico with the United States.