Our Research

The Pardee Center convenes symposia and conducts interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, and future-oriented research that contributes to long-term improvements in the human condition. The center’s focus is defined by its longer-range vision and is not confined to any particular set of issues. Our work seeks to identify, anticipate, and enhance the long-term potential for human progress—in all its myriad dimensions.

Current and Ongoing Projects and Programs

Climate Games 2Task Force Meeting and Gaming Session | Games for a New Climate
An all day participatory game session aimed at linking action with knowledge in the context of growing climate risks. The event is sponsored by the Pardee Center in collaboration with by the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Center.

DevelopmentConference | Development That Works
An all-day conference, organized by the Pardee Center and BU Global Development, will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss ideas that have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective development.

Rockefeller SearchlightResearch Project | Searchlight: Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data Project
This project develops data analysis and visualization tools for futures foresight research and applies these to the Rockefeller Foundation’s ongoing “Searchlight” project.

Latin AmericaTask Force | Latin America 2060
What is the future of Latin America as a region: consolidation or crisis? This task force will include leading experts on and from the region.

GlobeConference & Book | South-South Economic Cooperation
How are economic relations among developing countries (South) changing? As globalization increases and new economic powers rise within the erstwhile developing world, how does this change the dynamic of economic relations amongst developing countries?

BUBook | South Asia 2060
The South Asia 2060 project will support dialogue among leading thinkers  from within and beyond the region and from various disciplines and collect and publish the ideas generated by these thinkers on the future of the region in an anthology of essays.

migration-thConference & Book | Diasporas and Development
How do immigrant communities impact the “home” countries they left behind? This project is leading to an edited book based on papers presented at a Pardee Center conference.

trade_barcode -middleResearch Program | The Global Economic Governance Initiative
Advancing our empirical understanding of global economic governance, these research activities all seek to better understand the dimensions of global economic governance.

DSC_0385Summer Program | Graduate Summer Fellowship Program
The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics that are aligned with the broad research interests of the Pardee Center.

Graduate Summer Fellows ProgramResearch Archive
Find past and completed Pardee Center research projects here.

 

The Pardee Center also produces a number of publications, often directly related to our research initiatives.  Videos of most Pardee Center events, including our regular series of Pardee House Seminars, are available on our multimedia page.