Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was interviewed in a feature video for the World Food Programme (WFP), headquartered in Rome, Italy. The video focussed on the issue of food security and climate change. The video can be viewed here. […]
Prof. Saleem H. Ali, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, discussed his new book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future, at the Pardee House Seminar on 23 October, 2009. The talk was moderated by Professor Adil Najam, Director of the […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf presented at a seminar on Pakistan-US relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University on October 23, 2009. The seminar titled, “Pakistan-US Relations: Militancy, Nuclear Weapons, and a Faltering Economy” featured, besides Moeed, the former Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan, Aziz Ahmed Khan, and prominent Pakistani international […]
Boston University has been designated an observer non-governmental organization (NGO) by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future serving as Designated Contact Point. This designation allows Boston University and Pardee Center affiliated researchers (including students) to gain official accreditation to […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was one of the panelists at a seminar organized by the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on “Pakistan-US Economic Relations.” The seminar was hosted by the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington DC and […]
U.S. Senator John Kerry and U.S. Congressman Bill Delahunt will be amongst the speakers at a Boston University conference on “Whither U.S Cuba Policy? A Dialogue Among Policy Makers and Scholars” to be held on Friday, November 6, 2009, at 1.30pm. The conference is co-sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Climate Change, Security and Human Development at the National Museum of Iceland at a special lecture organized by the Nordic House, the Iceland Ministry of Environment and the Institute for Sustainability Studies at the University of Iceland. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold its next Pardee House Seminar on ‘Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future’ featuring Prof. Saleem H. Ali from University of Vermont who will talk about his book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future . Saleem H. Ali […]
Pardee Research Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin was invited to be a Resource Person at a week-long meeting on Asian e-waste governance organized by the Asian Productivity Organization in Taipei this week. He first presented on Oct 12, Monday, on European Union E-Waste Management. On Oct 15, he presented on Strategies for Regulating and Managing E-waste. […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy published an Op-Ed in The News (October 10, 2009), Pakistan’s largest English newspaper on the state of U.S.-Pakistan relations, in the context of the recently passed Kerry-Lugar […]