The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has been invited by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to be a founding member of the ‘Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership’ (SDKP). The SDKP is a United Nations Public-Private partnership, with the UN Division of Sustainable Development as […]
Muhammad Hamid Zaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine from Boston University, was named as a Faculty Fellow of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. In October 2009, Prof. Zaman will be leading a research meeting at the Pardee Center on complexity of higher education in […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines and from around the world met at Pardee House on Friday, September 25, 2009, to present at a conference on How Migrants Impact their Homelands. The authors’ conference was part of a research project of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, being […]
Pardee Center welcomes two new additions to the Pardee House family. Dr. Heran Sereke-Brhan joins the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a Post-doctoral Fellow from September 2009 to January 2010. Dr. Sereke-Brhan holds a PhD in African History from Michigan State University, working with Harold Marcus, a distinguished professor in […]
The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, was amongst the speakers at an international conference on The Global Institutional Architecture and the Financial Crisis: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development, organized in Berlin, Germany, by the EcoLogic Institute. The conference, held on 14-15 September 2009, […]
Global Aging: Emerging Challenges By Alexandra Crampton August 2009 (25 pages) Download PDF version. Aging policy frameworks were devised during a demographic and economic context in which population aging seemed confined to wealthy nations. These countries could afford retirement policies that supported older workers, decreased unemployment among younger workers, and decreased family pressure to provide […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke on how global climate change can become a major threat to global human well being and security at a major conference on The Day Before: A Conference on the National Security Implications of Climate Change, […]
Learning From the Past: The Future of Malaria in Africa By Melissa Graboyes June 2009 (8 pages) Download PDF version. In April 2009, Boston University’s African Studies Center organized a two-day event titled “Africa 2060 A.D.: What We Don’t Know About Malaria, and When Didn’t We Know It,” with the Pardee Center as one of […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf’s paper on “Promoting Cross-LoC Trade in Kashmir” has just been published by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as a Special Report (Download Full Paper Here). The paper was commissioned by USIP’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution to understand prospects of economic collaboration in the territory of Jammu […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines and from around the world will meet at Pardee House on Friday, September 25, 2009, to present at a conference on How Migrants Impact their Homelands. The authors’ conference is part of a research project of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, […]