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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.
CIA agents forced to torture
The FBI's Ali Soufan has an explosive op-ed in today's New York Times. "For seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the...
Should America torture? Seems to be a live debate
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UK’s carbon budget – not what it seems
British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling has been trumpeting a "34% cut in UK emissions by 2020" in his budget speech: Today, I am presenting the...
Mark Steyn’s greatest hits – with love from his reader of the day
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Minister – jolly glad about G20 policing
The Rt. Hon. The Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC - a junior Home Office minister responsible for counter-terrorism and security - has waded into the debate on...
Hating on the UN – whatever happens
In the FT, Gideon Rachman argues that yesterday's conference walkout during Ahmadinejad's speech will be bad for Ban Ki-Moon: Rather than walking away from a...
CNN vs the Teabaggers
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Ahmadinejad – the walk out
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Pity the rich (or genocide awaits)
Like most of you, I spend most of my days weeping at the fate of rich. But I don't think I'd realised how bad things were, until I came across Gabriel...
Tea Protest – Republic Threatened
In the US, hundreds of millions of right wing 'tea baggers' (yes - really) are protesting against "illegitimate President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic...
K’Naan on Somali pirates: “coast guards of the country”
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Obama: leading the low carbon revolution
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Right to Obama – “you’re making us crazy”
The US report (linked by Alex earlier) on far-right extremism risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it drives the far-right even further up the wall....
If the Independent ran the country…
Prime Minister warned by journalist - doesn't listen. (shock, horror). Andy McSmith - a 'senior reporter' at the Independent writes: McBride is a man of...
After McBride: “The election is lost”
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Green stimulus – fine words, little action
I have long thought that we'll live to regret our failure to use the current crisis to nudge the global economy onto a greener trajectory. A WWF/E3G report,...
G20 protesters just like child molesters
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Looking in the wrong place?
Space Hijackers have driven their armoured vehicle through the City, making it as far as the Royal Bank of Scotland - much to the amusement of everyone bar...
Paul Krugman – the song
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