Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University, spoke at a special panel on Global Governance for Environment and Sustainable Development held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on 8 […]
(A news report of the conference is available here). Registration is now open for the 2010 Pardee Center Conference on “Africa 2060: Good News from Africa” to be held on Friday, April 16, 2010. The all-day conference will feature four panels (on Social Development, on Markets and Economy, on Politics and Institutions, and on Society and […]
Sustainability@BU and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a panel discussion on Monday, April 5, 2010, to offer an inside look at the roads leading to and from Copenhagen, featuring Boston University faculty and students who attended the UN Climate Change Conference. Speakers from the Pardee Center included […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf has been appointed South Asia Advisor at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a Congressionally created think tank that teaches and supports peacemaking efforts around the world. Moeed Yusuf, who is completing his Political Science PhD at Boston University has been a Pardee Center Fellow since late 2007 […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University was honored by the Houston-based Alliance for Multicultural Community Services (AMCS) at their Annual “Stars Among Us” Gala event celebrating the 25th Anniversary of […]
Prof. Adil Najam’s paper on Globalization and Environment (co-authored with Mark Halle and David Runnals) has been included in the new edition of the popular college textbook “Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics” edited by Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. The paper is a review of the key trends that are […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines will meet at Boston University on April 29 – 30, 2010, to discuss the current best practice modalities for preventing and treating a host of communicable and non-communicable diseases and what explains variation in the implementation of the bio-medical knowledge. The workshop is sponsored by The Clinton Global Initiative […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environemnt at Boston University was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (the Star of Excellence Medal)- one of the highest civil awards of his native country, Pakistan – by the President of […]
From 31st May to 11 June the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold a meeting of its Subsidiary Bodies, including the 32nd Sessions of the SBSTA and SBI, the 12th Session of the AWG-KP and the 10th Session of the AWG-LCA. As an Observer Organization, the Pardee Center is Boston University’s […]
Prof. Henrik Selin, Pardee Center Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, spoke to science journalists from across the United States and Canada on issues related to the global management of hazardous wastes. The Seminar, held on March 31, 2010, was organized for science journalists by the Metcalf Institute for Marine […]