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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Bastards 1 – Ron Paul 0

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Lock the children up too

Head over to the BBC website for some eye-opening commentary from (mostly Muslim) readers on the British teacher who has been arrested in Sudan for allowing...

Gang raping Israel

Classy commentary from Frank Gaffney Jr in the Washington Times: It is fitting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose the U.S. Naval Academy for the venue...

Incompetence at UNAIDS (2)

Yesterday, while railing against UNAIDS for its failure to provide accurate estimates of the number of people with HIV/AIDS, I was casting around for the...

Incompetence at UNAIDS

In 2002, UNAIDS reported that: There are 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS world-wide. 38.6 million of these are adults, 19.2 million are women and 3.2...

Art in a time of genocide

In 1978, Cambodian artist, Vann Nath was locked up by the Khmer Rouge in the S-21 prison. "We were all in one room," he recalls. "We lay naked down on the...

Hack of the year

In the National Review, Grover G. Norquist (slogan: "Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives") wonders why Warren Buffet opposes the...

More Malloch Brown

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Bringing a country to strife

A message from Asma Jahangir - a heroic defender of human rights in Pakistan. The situation in the country is uncertain. There is a strong crackdown on the...

Standing by Musharraf

In Slate, Lee Smith paints the Pakistani army as the last bulwark against the Islamic hordes: The Pakistani military, as is the case with most armed forces in...

Paul watch

In the US, it's only 8.30 in the morning on the east coast, but Ron Paul has already raised nearly $800k. Over at Foreign Policy, Mike Boyer says enough is...

Polling Pakistanis

Reacting to the crisis in Pakistan, Ali Eteraz, over at the Guardian, argues that only opportunistic opposition politicians, a handful of lawyers, and...

From the jaws of defeat

The Sunday Times in its lead editorial: Is no news good news or bad news? In Iraq, it seems good news is deemed no news.... The instinct of too many people is...

Musharraf steps over the edge…

According to the BBC, the long-awaited state of emergency in Pakistan has finally arrived: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule...

Bye bye Karen

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