The recent Pardee Center Task Force Report on ‘Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy’ was presented at a special workshop held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on March 23, 2011. Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Workshop and one of the […]
The International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2011 took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from March 16-19, under the topic: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN TRANSITION. Several Pardee Center Fellows presented their work at the Convention. A forthcoming Global Environmental Politics Special Issue (August 2011) on climate change bandwagoning, co-edited by Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Global Public Policy, participated in a three day conference of authors and experts on diplomacy involved in producing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy. The meeting, held in Ottawa, Canada, at the […]
Pardee Fellow Pablo Suarez contributed to “Making Social Protection Work for Pro-Poor Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation”, an international workshop held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on March 14-17, 2011. Organized by the World Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the Institute of Development Studies, this […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Cutler Cleveland, shared his views with BU Today on the current nuclear crisis in Japan. The recent earthquake and tusnami in Japan has triggered a nuclear crisis after reactors at one nuclear power plant were affected by the natural disaster. The crisis in Japan has reignited an international debate on nuclear […]
The Pardee Center is delighted to welcome six Graduate Research Assistants who will work with the Center’s staff on the upcoming conference, “Development That Works”. The Research Assistants will write sections of the conference report and help with logistical details at the March 31 event. The six graduate assistants are: Neil Borland, Master of Arts […]
The Pardee Center hosted an experts workshop on Thursday, March 10 to review the Center’s ongoing work on the “Searchlight: Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data” project for the Rockefeller Foundation. Ten experts (see list below) from various disciplines met with the Pardee Center’s project team members and Claudia Juech, Managing Director of the Rockefeller […]
Pardee Fellow Pablo Suarez made a presentation at a workshop in the West African city of Mopti (Mali), in the context of a new 5-year, 9-country program called “Partners for Resilience”. In his capacity as associate director of programs of the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, Dr. Suarez has joined forces with colleagues from Wetlands International, CARE, Cordaid […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology in Washington DC. There were over 7,500 registered participants for the meeting, held from March 6 to March 10, 2011. Prof. Selin’s presentation was titled “The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants” and was part of the session […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University co-hosted a special high-level brainstorming session on “Accountability and Implementation: The Keys to Sustainable Development” at the United Nations in New York on March 8, 2011, as a side-event at the second PrepCom meeting for the forthcoming 2012 Rio+20 conference […]