Prof. Adil Najam and Prof. Henrik Selin, both professors of International Relations at Boston University and researchers at the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an op-ed titled “A New Deal for Development” in The Express Tribune (May 15, 2010) and in New Strait Times (May 19, 2010). The […]
Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, and David Runnalls, President and Chief Executive Office of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) were invited to brief the committee of Environment Ministers from the Commonwealth countries on the forthcoming Rio+20 negotiations at a […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and a contributor to the TripleCrisis blog wrote an op-ed post on the forthcoming negotiations in preparation for the ‘United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,’ or the so-called Rio+20 Earth Summit. The Rio +20 summit is […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership (SDKP) hosted a seminar at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on “Governance for Sustainable Development: Institutional Challenges for Rio+20” on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Nearly 60 people attended in a packed conference room […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations, Geography and Environment at Boston University, was one of the plenary keynote speakers at the Third International Conference on Sustainable Development on “The Art of Farming,” in Brussels, Belgium, on May 11, […]
Prof. Kevin P. Gallagher, Faculty Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Associate Professor of International Relations, wrote an Op-Ed for The Financial Times on the effects of US trade agreements on emerging markets. Titled “US trade agreements threaten emerging markets’ financial stability”, Prof. Gallagher […]
The Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Bernd Sommer, from Germany in May 2010. Bernd Sommer is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany, and Research Analyst to the German Advisory Council on Global Change, which advises the Federal Government on climate change and other […]
The Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, presented the annual lecture at the Bernstein Forum of the World Affairs Council of Maine, held on May 6, 2010, at the Ludke Auditorium of the University of New England in Portland, Maine. Prof. Najam’s […]
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 was interviewed and quoted in various international media outlets on the failed bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square. These included an op-ed published in The Express Tribune (adapted from Prof. […]
Some thirty faculty members and researchers from all across Boston University – including the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, School of Engineering, College of Communication, School of Social Work, and the Metropolitan College – attended the Dialogue on “The University’s Role in Dealing with Disasters and Complex Human […]