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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.
Flu overload
Not a good start for the new UK National Pandemic Flu Service.
The paper of rumour
Standards are soaring at the New York Times. For the self proclaimed 'newspaper of record rumour', it seems that news is now "defined as anything juicy that...
Zadari bans jokes about himself. World mocks him.
As we reported last week, Pakistan's governments is attempting to crack down on seditious texts and emails. Its attempt to avoid ridicule, however, is being...
Graph of the day
Please someone save me! (updated)
India Knight, writing in the Sunday Times, wishes a state-employed magician could come along and make her feel better about swine flu. As that's not possible,...
In Pakistan – let’s screw the youth
Pakistan, the observant among you will have noticed, has been having a tough time the past few years. This graph sums it up for me (March 2009, Pakistan...
Light Up Nigeria! (updated x8)
Despite being oil rich, Nigeria is desperately energy poor. Per capita electricity consumption is half that of nearby Ghana and even this limited supply is...
Murdoch grilled by Fox (not)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD4SjmtQRzM[/youtube]
Friday caption contest
Context that seems to let Obama off the hook here. Alex adds: well, maybe - but then what about this one? H/t Guido.
The Resilience Doctrine
Article on risk and resilience by Alex Evans and David Steven – part of a special in World Politics Review on risk and resilience in a globalized age (July 2009)
The Resilience Doctrine
Alex and I have a new article published today by World Politics Review, as part of their special on risk and resilience in a globalized age. The other piece...
Michael Jackson: the foreign policy angle (updated)
Update: I wondered last night where Breaking News had picked up its David Miliband quote. Turns out it was from the Foreign Secretary's own Twitter feed. The...
On Iran, Washington keeps its priorities straight
In Washington, Iran isn't about Mousavi, Khamenei or Neda, it's about Obama. It's a pincer movement. The establishment media behaves as if there's some Geneva...
Daily Mail poll #fail (updated)
The Daily Mail, bastion of British bitterness, is frothing at the mouth at plans to allow travellers (or as columnist Richard Littlejohn prefers,...
Republicans give up on world
A few weeks ago, I nearly blogged about growing opposition to IMF funding in the US, but thought it was something of a fringe position. I was wrong. House...
Would the EU please stand up?
Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is itching for Obama to get stuck in to the Iranian regime: We have an opportunity to get the Iranians to use this thick-skulled...
In Iran, Mousavi rallies his supporters
Iranians rally to protest stolen vote
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey9Kgf-cB40&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
CNN reports: Too much Twitter
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEvSkQGXfs8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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