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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.
AQ Khan’s website
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AQ Khan’s retracted confession
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2I0uGR_ZVI[/youtube]
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Worry not. Worry. Worry not.
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The horror! The horror!
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Wen Jiabao shoe protest
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPQM47rqUNE[/youtube]
UN’s John Solecki kidnapped in Pakistan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQ8bT3ZWig[/youtube]
China – still dodging on climate
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UK strikes online
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Davos: Is Emissions Trading the Carbon Solution?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeTqrSrLQ0&feature=channel_page[/youtube]
Google and the end times
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Could Nouriel Roubini love himself any more?
Considering Nouriel Roubini has so many fans these days, it's reassuring to know he's still his biggest one: Time on Twitter: 11 days Number of tweets: 36...
Welcome to the London (G20) summit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6kOYI753Dk[/youtube]
A Tale of Two Cities
Assume a robust global deal on climate and the world's cities will have to transform their infrastructure, economies and societies in little more than a...
A Tale of Two Cities
Climate and cities think piece, co-authored by David Steven and the British Council’s Peter Upton (29 January 2009)
It’s an offense to film the police (not)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfQrDK9YHas[/youtube]
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