A presentation on the Pardee Center research project on developing data analysis and visualization tools for futures foresight was made at a meeting organized by the Rockefeller Foundation in Bangkok, Thailand on December 15-16, 2010. The project is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and is led at the Pardee Center by Prof. Adil Najam and […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, participated in and presented at a two-day international workshop on non-traditional security challenges in South Asia’s Future. The workshop was attended by leading experts from across […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to develop data analysis and visualization tools for futures foresight research and to apply these to the Rockefeller Foundation’s ongoing ‘Searchlight’ project that focuses on horizon scanning to identify early signals that […]
Dr. Pablo Suarez, Pardee Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, was featured in AlertNet for his work on games as learning tools for climate science. Saurez has just returned from facilitating two game-based climate change sessions yesterday at the UN conference in Cancun (one on linking forecasts with humanitarian decisions and another on insurance for risk reduction). The […]
The Report of the Pardee Center’s ‘Africa 2060: Good News from Africa’ conference was launched at a special Pardee House Seminar held on December 6, 2010. Panelists included Amb. Charles Stith, Director of the BU African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC); Prof. Timothy Longman, Director of the BU African Studies Center (ASC), and Dr. […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, has been invited to join the Advisory Panel for the 2011 Human Development Report, produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Human Development Report […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has been highlighted as one of the feature stories in the 2010 edition of the Research at Boston University 2010 magazine. The Pardee Center has also featured in the magazine in earlier years, including most recently in the 2008 edition. The write-up, titled […]
On Friday, December 3, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the last Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions of the fall semester. The session, entitled The Business of Energy, featured Joseph Pratt, Martha Amram, and Paul McManus. Joseph Pratt, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, joined Prof. Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn-i-Khuldun Chair at American University and one of the leading experts on Islam in America as well as on Pakistan’s founding […]
On November 30, 2010, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, Prof. Adil Najam, was interviewed by Boston’s Fox25 Television Channel on the global implications of the release of some 250,000 classified diplomatic documents by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Prof. Najam suggested that more important […]