Pardee Fellow Pablo Suarez was invited to give the keynote speech in Guadalajara, Mexico during an award ceremony at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente. On November 5th Dr. Suarez addressed the role of university students in the future of humanitarian work, and then joined the provost and other university authorities in […]
Over a hundred people from across the Boston area gathered at Boston University on November 4, 2010, at a discussion on on the current situation with the devastating floods in Pakistan and the ongoing impacts of Haiti’s earthquake earlier this year, and in particular on the lessons that can be learnt from these two experiences […]
The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke at a special event at Oberlin College on the devastation caused by the recent floods in Pakistan and on its developmental consequences for the country. The event, held on the evening of November 3, 2010, was […]
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, published an op-ed on the future of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in The National, Abu Dhabi’s largest English newspaper, on November 1, […]
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, was invited to present at a special panel event before the Second Committee (on Economics and Finance) of the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly […]
Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam and Pardee Fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz published respective op eds on the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Climate Change negotiations in Cancún. Professor Najam’s op ed, titled Renewing the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has been published in the blog Triple Crisis, and can be accessed here. In […]
Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam chaired a session on “Foreign Policy in World War II, the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement” at a Boston University conference on African Americans and U.S. Foreign Policy held on October 27-28, 2010. The conference was organized by Boston University’s African American Studies Program in conjunction with […]
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year was the result of a system of “complacency, collusion and neglect” – the same factors that were responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Alaska’s Prince William Sound 21 years ago, according to Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, was interviewed on the BBC/PRI radio show The World on the impacts of the recent floods in Pakistan, including the coping strategies of those affected and […]
Who: Zygmunt Plater, School of Law, Boston College Where: Room STO 453, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University When: Tuesday, October 26, 12:30 PM As a White House staffer once said, “A disaster is a terrible thing to waste.” The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout will be a doubly disastrous calamity if it doesn’t produce systemic changes for […]