Like everyone else, we've been wondering whether war between the US and Iran is coming (see here and here). Scott Horton says EU diplomats believe it's only a...
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.
Alternative CSR: the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Chapter on the FCO from Manchester University Press’s Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review, by David Steven (September 2007).
Condoms cause AIDS
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Under the hammer
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Online dissent, Buddhist style
The BBC on Burma's cyber-dissidents...
Defending the true faith
On National Review, Jay Richards continues his push back against Evangelical Christians who support action on climate change. His advice? Stop being gulled by...
Naming Bin Laden
In the past few days, a vicious spat has broken out in the US counter-insurgency community. On one side, the architect of a new lexicon, inspired by Koranic...
What they think, not what we want them to think
Make sure you read this article by Marc Lynch (who runs the excellent blog, Abu Aardvark). A teaser: Much of the conventional wisdom about the Sunni areas now...
Plot thickens
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Iran – yes, no, yes
Writing in Salon, Steve Clemons recalls a round table he organised 18 months ago on the prospects for war with Iran. Then an unnamed former official in the...
Not a parody – sadly
The leader of the Western world, yesterday: Asked what traits people should look for in choosing a President, George Bush responded immediately: “Be...
Rational voters
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What’s the story?
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Art, meet life
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Green shoots
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Mission (re)accomplished
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Greenspanic
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Musharraf to quit army
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A global climate control OS
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Hotmapping London (well Haringey anyway)
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