The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is co-sponsoring its first “Pardee Seminar” to be held abroad. The seminar, on “Future Challenges: Food and Development”, will be hosted in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan’s leading think tank. It will take place on Monday, December 22, 2008 at […]
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke to the student delegates from all over Europe at a special Model United Nations moot held at The Hague in the Netherlands. Organized by The European International Model United Nations (TEIMUN) this special event was held to mark the fact that in 2009, the Netherlands will be chairing […]
Pardee Center Visiting Fellow Pablo Suarez contributed to the climate change deliberations at the Unitied Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in Poznan, Poland in early December. At a session on climate risk insurance on December 8, Dr. Suarez was part of a panel with representatives of reinsurance giants SwissRe […]
As the keynote speaker at the December 8 conference, “Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?”, former U.S. Ambassador to China Stapleton Roy said that 2009 will be a “defining moment in world affairs.” Although the global economic crisis is demanding a great deal of attention of the incoming administration of President-elect […]
Denver University’s Pardee Center for International Futures, a partner institution of the Boston University Pardee Center, has just published the first in a series of reports on “Patterns of Potential Human Progress” (PPHP). The first volume in the series, focussing on Reducing Global Poverty, has been jointly published by Paradigm Publishers and Oxford University Press […]
Moeed Yusuf, a graduate Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, has been inducted as a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Nuclear Scholars Initiative (NSI) after a competitive selection process. Part of the Project on Nuclear Issues, NSI aims to […]
Moeed Yusuf, Graduate Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future participated in an international development conference in Pakistan on December 1-3, 2008. The conference titled Peace and Sustainable Development in South Asia: Issues and Challenges of Globalization was organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future releases the second monograph in its Pardee Papers Series. The paper, titled “Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future?” is written by Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf. Moeed Yusuf argues that although nuclear energy optimists suggest that a nuclear renaissance is under way, […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Pablo Suarez has joined the editorial board of a new journal called Climate and Development, published by Earthscan Publishers. According to its website, “Climate and Development is the first academic journal dedicated to the range of issues that arise when climate variability, climate change and climate policy are considered along with […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, spoke to the South Asia Roundtable at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York on the topic of “Pakistan’s Future in the Fight against Militancy.” Prof. Najam argued that issues related to […]