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David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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Is China dumping US assets?
There are disturbing reports floating around today that the Chinese government has "ordered its reserve managers to divest itself of riskier securities and...
Extra-judicial killings in Nigeria (shocking footage)
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Head of FSA resigns
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The peak oil conspiracy
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AIDS – the wrong answer
A Guide to the BASIC Coalition – climate after Copenhagen
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Time to Stop Betting the House
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Time to Stop Betting the House: a response to the FSA
Report by David Steven in response to the FSA’s Mortgage Market Review
Making the news
Time Magazine's Jay Newton-Small: It's been frustrating then, to watch foreign, especially U.S., news crews pull up to Cite Soleil and start walking down the...
We can forget about cap and trade now
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Did Copenhagen die yesterday?
Yesterday, I speculated about prospects for the Copenhagen Accord if Democrats lost their super-majority in the Senate. Well, voters in Massachusetts handed...
Calling Colleen Graffy
I was once on the receiving end of Colleen Graffy's attempts to spin conditions at Guantánamo. At the time, Graffy was the US's Assistant Secretary of State...
Does Copenhagen die today?
Most people left Copenhagen thinking the next big crunch date would be the last day in January, when 49 or so countries are due to lodge their commitments for...
Is France a country?
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Hitting Reboot – where next for climate after Copenhagen?
Today, the Brookings Institution publishes Hitting Reboot – a new paper from Alex and I reviewing climate policy in the aftermath of Copenhagen. The picture...
Hitting Reboot – where next for climate after Copenhagen
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven analysing the post-Copenhagen context on climate change, including a proposed 12 point action plan. Written for the Brookings Institution / NYU Center on International Cooperation Managing Global Insecurity programme.
Climate Groundhog Day
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My bitterness knows no bounds
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