Global Aging: Emerging Challenges By Alexandra Crampton August 2009 (25 pages) Download PDF version. Aging policy frameworks were devised during a demographic and economic context in which population aging seemed confined to wealthy nations. These countries could afford retirement policies that supported older workers, decreased unemployment among younger workers, and decreased family pressure to provide […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke on how global climate change can become a major threat to global human well being and security at a major conference on The Day Before: A Conference on the National Security Implications of Climate Change, […]
Learning From the Past: The Future of Malaria in Africa By Melissa Graboyes June 2009 (8 pages) Download PDF version. In April 2009, Boston University’s African Studies Center organized a two-day event titled “Africa 2060 A.D.: What We Don’t Know About Malaria, and When Didn’t We Know It,” with the Pardee Center as one of […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf’s paper on “Promoting Cross-LoC Trade in Kashmir” has just been published by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as a Special Report (Download Full Paper Here). The paper was commissioned by USIP’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution to understand prospects of economic collaboration in the territory of Jammu […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines and from around the world will meet at Pardee House on Friday, September 25, 2009, to present at a conference on How Migrants Impact their Homelands. The authors’ conference is part of a research project of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, […]
Dr. Athar Osama, a BU Pardee Center Visiting Fellow , and Dr. Adil Najam, the Director of the Pardee Center are amongst the co-authors of a review of Pakistan’s higher education policy reform published in this week’s Nature magazine. The article is the result of a review of Pakistan’s higher education reform process and is […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University, has been awarded one of Pakistan’s highest civilian decoration, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence), by the President of Pakistan. Prof. Najam was recognized for […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was featured in a special write-up about MIT Alumni in the MIT magazine, Technology Review. Prof. Najam, who is also a Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University, holds three degrees […]
At the Pardee House Seminar on July 23 titled “Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development,” a panel of experts said that the key to creating international scientific cooperation amongst developing countries with conflictual relationships will be the creation of well-developed and lasting personal relationships among international groups of dedicated professionals working on common and pressing […]
A meeting of some of the members of the Sustainable Development Knowledge Network being established by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) was hosted by the Pardee Center to discuss options for activities and actions by the network. The informal meeting took advantage of the presence of a number of […]