The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Knowledge Network (SDKP) will host a side-event at the 18th meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The Pardee Center side-event at the CSD will meet from 1.15PM […]
The Times of India published an op-ed by the Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam and Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf on the long-standing Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan on May 2, 2010. The op-ed titled “Kashmir: Ripe for Resolution” had earlier been also published in Pakistan’s largest English newspaper, The News. The […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future published two new papers in its Issues in Brief series. The first – No. 014 in the series (April, 2010) – is written by Amb. Paul Hare and focused on the future prospects for the G20 in global diplomacy (here). The […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines met at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 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 […]
Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam and Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf published an op-ed titled “Kashmir: Ripe for Resolution” in The News, Pakistan’s largest selling English newspaper, on April 29, 2010. The op-ed was based on a larger research paper by the same title that Najam and Yusuf published in the journal Third […]
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, Boston University, and Harvard University, hosted a conference on the future of global health featuring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Congressman Michael Capuano (D-MA), Boston University President Robert Brown, as well as top academics, industry leaders and student activists from the Boston […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published two related op-ed’s on the choices before the United Nations Secretary General for the position of the new UN Climate Chief (Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC)). The two […]
Six graduate students from across Boston University have been named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows for 2010. They will spend the summer conducting research at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and participate in a cross-disciplinary program of research on longer-range challenges related to human well-being. Selected from a pool […]
The Boston University Provosts office and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a Boston Univeristy Dialogue on “The University’s Role in Dealing with Disasters and Complex Human Emergencies” on Monday, May 3, 2010. The Dialogue – hosted by University Provost David Campbell, Vice President and Associate Provost […]
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, Boston University, and Harvard University, will host a conference on the future of global health featuring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Boston University President Robert Brown, as well as top academics and student activists from the Boston area. The Frederick S. Pardee […]