A couple of weeks ago, preparations for July's Financing For Development summit in Addis Ababa passed the 100 days to go mark. Unfortunately, the summit is at...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
A larger us
(H/t Shulem Stern)
The Restorative Economy
Over the past six months, I’ve been working with my friend and colleague Rich Gower on a report for Tearfund, the Christian development NGO, entitled The...
Who’s going to pay for the SDGs?
In July, Addis Ababa will host a crucial summit on financing for development. If September’s summit on sustainable development goals (SDGs) in New York is...
Why the Green surge is an opportunity for Labour as well as a threat
What a week for the Greens: first they sail past both UKIP and the Liberal Democrats on membership numbers; then they secure a place in the televised leaders'...
The Great Acceleration
Great Acceleration 2015 from International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme A set of slides from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, who've just published their...
The change we need in 10 words: A larger us. A longer future. A different good life.
Yesterday saw the launch of action/2015, the new global campaign on poverty, inequality, and climate change that will rally more than a thousand campaigning...
On Andrew Lansley as the UK’s candidate for UN Emergency Relief Coordinator
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_5CRaXNko[/youtube] A pretty good summary, one imagines, of how the UN Secretary-General's team reacted when David...
The morning after the US-China climate announcement (updated)
Never have I seen such a wave of social media euphoria as the one that swept through my Twitter and Facebook feeds this time yesterday, as news broke about...
Our Unfinished Millennium Jubilee
Talk presented at Tearfund on why our Millennium Jubilee remains a work in progress - and what it would take to complete it (November 2014) Download Speech
How about this as a headline outcome from the Addis FFD summit?
Here's a conundrum if you like riddles: how on earth is next summer's Finance For Development summit in Addis Ababa supposed to take account of the vexed...
The NGO campaign I’ve wanted to work on for the last 15 years (updated)
Tearfund has always been one of my favourite civil society organisations - above all because they have such a great track record of being a ‘pathfinder’ for...
Towards a Just and Sustainable Economy?
Think piece prepared as a background paper for two Tearfund seminars exploring what it would look like to shift to a just and sustainable economy and how we...
The best climate change movie yet
Here's the trailer for the new climate film Disruption, which came out earlier this month. As Upworthy summarise, "he sat down in a cold, grey room and...
ISIS and the moral level of warfare
With all the atrocities that ISIS has visited on the people living in the territories it's overrun in recent months, the humanitarian basis for military...
Post-2015 Means of Implementation: What Are We Trying to Win?
Working draft of a paper by Alex Evans on potential elements of a global political deal on 'means of implementation' for the post-2015 development agenda...
The political deal on post-2015 ‘means of implementation’
The post-2015 agenda is at a turning point, with the intense discussions of the last year about Goals and targets giving way to a new focus on how the world...
Beyond Aid: the future UK approach to development
Written evidence by Alex Evans and the Center for Global Development's Owen Barder to the UK Parliament International Development Committee inquiry on the...
The future of DFID and the ‘beyond aid’ agenda
The UK Parliament's Select Committee on International Development is running an interesting inquiry at the moment on the future of Britain's Department for...
The six fathers of ISIS
(As defined by Ziad Majed and abridged by Amir Ahmed Nasr in this excellent post): ISIS is the offspring of more than one father, and the product of more than...
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