I am at the Diplomatic Academy of London for a conference on ‘transformational public diplomacy' (programme- pdf). As the title suggests, the launch pad for...
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.
Technology and Public Diplomacy
Speech by David Steven to the University of Westminster Symposium on Transformational Public Diplomacy (30 April 2008).
The common enemy
Last night I was at Gresham College where their Professor of Commerce, Michael Mainelli, was lecturing on global risks (read his lecture here).Mainelli...
How low can she go?
It's not just Australia that's been getting it in the neck this week, New Zealand's PM, Helen Clark, has been compared to a cockroach by Hilary Clinton, in...
Joined up government
Nice to see an integrated approach to UK operations in Afghanistan... When I asked the men of 3 Para what their first tour had achieved, they all fell silent....
Building Resilience – RUSI
Today, I gave the closing address at the RUSI conference, Protecting the Critical Infrastructure, in a session introduced by RUSI's head of risk and...
Looking Forward: how do we build resilience?
Speech by David Steven to RUSI Conference on Critical National Infrastructure (16 April 2008).
Windmills to make driving cheaper – official
Yes, fresh from bringing peace to Northern Ireland and dodging snipers in Bosnia, Hillary Clinton is planning an amazing feat - she's going to make the US...
Ways in which we are screwed #94
It's been a long day, so excuse the bad mood. But, really: is it possible to read an article like this without falling further into deep despair? Ira Winkler...
Progressive Governance talk
Below the jump, Alex and my talk at last weekend's Progressive Governance summit - it's a four minute summary of our paper on multilateralism and global...
The superclass
In our Progressive Governance paper, Alex and I argued that ad hoc ‘shared platforms' are a vital part of the management of a globalised world, particularly...
The television torturers
Do, if you get time, read Phillippe Sands on the American 'torture trail' in May's Vanity Fair. Sands is a law professor at University College London and...
Progressive Governance: Our View
On Saturday, Alex and I presented our paper on multilateralism and global risks to heads of state at the Progressive Governance Summit, which was chaired by...
Shooting the Rapids: multilateralism and global risks
Paper by Alex Evans and David Steven, commissioned by Gordon Brown and presented to heads of state at the Progressive Governance Summit (April 2008).
Progressive Governance Summit
On Saturday, Alex and I will be at the Progressive Governance Summit, where we'll be presenting a new paper on multilateralism and global risks to twenty or...
I wrote it myself
Most politician bloggers are somewhat half-arsed, but when Barack Obama posted for the first time on uber-leftie group blog, Daily Kos, back in 2005, his post...
Just what we need – another moron
A few weeks back, John McCain was asked whether taxpayers should fund contraception to combat AIDS. Here's the response: Mr. McCain: "I haven’t thought about...
Propaganda 2.0
The US military wonders whether it makes sense to co-opt bloggers: Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how...
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game on Climate Change
Chapter by Alex Evans and David Steven, as part of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020 book ‘Talking Trans-Atlantic’ (March 2008).
Not shocked but stressed
In a recent post on Global Dashboard, I wrote about resilience, drawing on thinking that Alex and I have been developing together for a new project we hope to...
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