While I still hope Obama's team will tell him to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize (see my earlier post), that now looks unlikely.His initial reaction doesn't...
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.
Nobel Peace Prize – just say no! (update x5)
Early reactions to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize are almost universally negative. I agree. The decision is absurd. I'd love to be in the White House now. How does...
US in Pakistan: Diplomats or Missonaries? [updated]
Reading the papers over breakfast in Lahore, I was dumbfounded by the story of a US diplomatic official being attacked while she attempted to distribute -...
World to America: Grow Up! (updatedx3)
As America digests the news that Chicago won't be holding the Olympics, the right has reacted with unbridled joy, while other commentators just seem...
Chicago is out? Chicago is out?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuE60mq0r1Q[/youtube]
Brainwave – let’s re-invent the IPCC
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, George Will has a bright idea in today's column which will, sadly, be read in 350 or so US newspapers this morning:...
Pot meets kettle
Nicolas Sarkozy - apparently - believes Barack Obama is "incredibly naive and grossly egotistical - so egotistical that no-one can dent his naivete." Things...
Obama: Losing control?
Tom Ricks thinks Obama's grip on foreign policy is slipping: Obama has done nothing much on Iraq except screw up a couple of appointments there and break a...
Huckabee: US Out of the UN
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y84Fhe3362I&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
If you’re from Hollywood – rape who you like (updatedx2)
It amazes me how dramatically the left loses its moral compass whenever controversy surrounds someone artistic 'genius' they want to suck up to. Take Joan Z...
G20 – The Trophy Shot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3FP3blL3mE[/youtube]
Aged 16, life w/o parole: killed rapist pimp
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7mno6p9iQ&feature=related[/youtube]
Climate – Europe’s many voices
Today, Ban-Ki Moon, worried by fading prospects for a climate deal at Copenhagen, will try and knock heads (of state) together at his Summit on Climate...
Great Moments in Public Health
When swine flu first hit, Egypt killed its pigs. All of them. Now this senseless decision has left Cairo with a major public health problem on its hands. The...
Forget Copenhagen, the Greens are planning a ‘final solution’
Later on today, delegates at the Values Voter Summit will gather for a breakout session with Dr Calvin Beisner from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship...
Policing the interracial divide
From a Jerusalem Post article on Eish L'Yahadut (Fire for Judaism) - a group that exists to break up relationships between Arab men and Jewish girls: Every...
Ask Me Anything!
Have a question for a heroin addict, acne sufferer, or bank robber? Then head over to Reddit’s IaMa ("I am a...") community, where this past week has seen...
White rage – Limbaugh style (updated x2)
Seems like America is having increasing trouble with the whole post-racial thing. Here’s Rush Limbaugh ginning up white rage following release of a video...
The Lisbon Treaty – why the Irish should vote ‘yes’
Over at Slugger O Toole, I have an essay in a series on the Irish Lisbon referendum. My conclusion: we need a 'yes' vote so that the EU can begin the process...
Pandemic flu – what are we missing?
For governments, managing risk is a pretty thankless task. Today, the House of Lords Science and Technology committee published its report on pandemic flu....
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