Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke on multiple panels at an India-Pakistan Peace Conference held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. The Indo-Pak Peace Conference, which took place at McGill University in Montreal, Canada on the 27th and 28th of March 2009, was a joint effort of the Pakistani Students’ Association and the Indian Student’s […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was one of the panelists at a discussion forum on U.S-Muslim World relations held at the Harvard law School. The Panel was organized by the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School and moderated by […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke to the World Affairs Council of Rhode Island on the great challenges facing Afghanistan and Pakistan in the context of the Global War on Terror. The talk was part of the Distinguished Lecture and Dinner Program of […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, presented a keynote address to the 94th Annual Conference of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), held at Boston. UCEA members include public and private accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities, international universities, and nonprofit organizations […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf made two paper presentations on South Asian politics and strategy at the recently concluded Midwest Political Science Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago. The first paper titled Pakistan’s Failure at Democratic Consolidation is part of Yusuf’’s PhD dissertation and was presented as part of a panel on Democracy and Autocracy. […]
On April 2, 2009 Henrik Selin, Pardee Faculty Fellow, gave a presentation together with Stacy VanDeveer at University of New Hampshire. Their lecture, part of The Spring Sustainability Lecture Series, was titled "Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policy Making and Multilevel Governance". They discussed the past, present and future of North American climate […]
Pablo Suarez, a visiting fellow at the Pardee Center, made a presentation on climate risk insurance and development during the meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Bonn. Speaking on behalf of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Dr. Suarez discussed how risk transfer instruments can help the most […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Cutler Cleveland participated in a plenary panel at the Inaugural National Symposium on Food Systems and Sustainability at the University of California, Davis on March 24. The Symposium was sponsored by the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis with major funding from the W.K Kellogg Foundation. Professor Cleveland, an energy expert […]
A new paper called Beyond GDP: The Need for New Measures of Progress was published this month by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and is now available electronically and in hard copy. This is the fourth paper in The Pardee Papers series. The paper was co-authored by Robert […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher was quoted in a New York Times article on March 24 that reviews the effects that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had on Mexico in the 15 years since the trade pact was signed. Prof. Gallagher’s comments in the article were related to the treaty’s impacts […]