More than 100 people participated in the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future’s annual conference on Thursday, March 31, called Development That Works. The conference was held at the Boston University School of Management Conference Center. The all-day conference was organized by the Pardee Center in collaboration with the Boston […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception in honor of the participants of the Development That Works conference on the evening of March 30, 2011. Held at the Pardee House, the reception was attended by faculty and researchers from Boston University, Pardee Center Graduate Assistants, and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Thursday, April 7, 2011, on ‘Managing Disasters: Turning Knowledge Into Action’. The seminar will feature Dr. Hani O. Mowafi (BU School of Medicine), Prof. Enrique R. Silva (BU City Planning and Urban Affairs) and Dr. Pablo […]
Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, attended the 2011 annual meeting of the UN Committee on Development Policy (CDP). Prof. Najam has served on the CDP since 2009 when he was nominated to it by the United Nations’ Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon. (See news reports of […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, participated in the second meeting of the Advisory panel for the 2011 Human Development Report, produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The theme […]
On Friday, March 25, 2011, the John Sawyer Seminars on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its seventh meeting. The session entitled Energy, Security, and Conflict featured Amy Myers Jaffe and Michael Klare, and was moderated by Dana Bauer, Professor of Geography at Boston University. Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in […]
The recent Pardee Center Task Force Report on ‘Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy’ was presented at a special workshop held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on March 23, 2011. Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Workshop and one of the […]
The International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2011 took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from March 16-19, under the topic: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN TRANSITION. Several Pardee Center Fellows presented their work at the Convention. A forthcoming Global Environmental Politics Special Issue (August 2011) on climate change bandwagoning, co-edited by Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Global Public Policy, participated in a three day conference of authors and experts on diplomacy involved in producing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy. The meeting, held in Ottawa, Canada, at the […]
Pardee Fellow Pablo Suarez contributed to “Making Social Protection Work for Pro-Poor Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation”, an international workshop held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on March 14-17, 2011. Organized by the World Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the Institute of Development Studies, this […]