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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.
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More pictures from Abu Ghraib
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re: Rocks for Brains
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Pakistan cripples YouTube
The world is beginning to resemble a low-budget television comedy: A Pakistan ISP that was ordered to censor YouTube accidentally managed to take down the...
Be late to kill Obama
Yesterday, I blogged on Dallas's bid to stage another high profile political assassination. Now the Secret Service has tried to explain its decision to let...
A tortured competition
The New Scientist has an interesting interview with Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Democracy. Rejali identifies a competitive dynamic which, he...
Making a martyr…
Lax security has already given the world one political martyr this year - let's not have another one, eh? Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday...
The Truth Meme
If you've never been cornered by a 911 truther then you should definitely read Paul Constant's excellent profile of the movement for the Utne Reader. Key...
Which straw is the last one?
On Saturday, I wrote about the black mood that's gripping Pakistan, with many here asking whether the country faces a descent into chaos. So, how serious is...
Police clash with lawyers – the video
Here's some video I took of yesterday's violent confrontation between Pakistan's police and its lawyers - a clash in which there were 12 arrests and 30...
The resilience agenda
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Muslims inbred – but did he say it?
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Police confront Pakistan’s lawyers
As I write, police here in Islamabad are just finishing breaking up a demonstration by Pakistan's lawyers. The lawyers had been holding a convention and were...
Keeping them busy
Pakistan’s election will be held on the 18th – Monday week – and the campaign has already proved a violent one. “Gujrat is a district where violence and...
Pakistan’s Black Hole
These are dark days for Pakistan. Eighteen months ago, when I was first in Islamabad, Pakistanis could see a route that would take the country towards greater...
Fourth cable cut
Last week, I posted on a strange sequence of severed undersea coms cables. Well, now a fourth cable has been cut and there are disturbing - but I'd stress...
Enemy action?
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