--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 14 description: Turkey's turn, the end of the summer job, our paramilitary hometown police forces, surveying sexual assault on campus, and the power of peacekeeping. canonical: https://time.com/3111402/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-14/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-14T16:06:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:13.405Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are the Five Best Ideas of the Day og:description: Learn about: Turkey's chance to lead in the Middle East, our militarized police forces, and a new plan to get hard data on campus sexual assault. og:url: https://time.com/3111402/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-14/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are the Five Best Ideas of the Day twitter:description: Learn about: Turkey's chance to lead in the Middle East, our militarized police forces, and a new plan to get hard data on campus sexual assault. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 14 > Sponsored content. 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So will the work ethic and skills training that summer jobs once ensured.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/summer-jobs-are-slowly-disappearing/) By Ben Cassleman in FiveThirtyEight **5\.** [**It may seem like the world is tearing itself apart, but when peacekeepers can be deployed to troublespots, their track record is very good.**](http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2014/08/12/peacekeeping-works-better-than-you-may-think/) By Roland Paris in Political Violence at a Glance  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3111402/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-14/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3111402/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-14/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 14","datePublished":"2014-08-14T16:06:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:13.405Z","description":"Turkey's turn, the end of the summer job, our paramilitary hometown police forces, surveying sexual assault on campus, and the power of peacekeeping.","url":"https://time.com/3111402/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-14/","keywords":["Innovation","Sexual Assault","Iraq","police","Turkey","Civil Rights","development","Ferguson"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3111402/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-14/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 14"}}]}] ```