It's been many years coming, but there are signs that, at last, George Bush is getting serious about climate change: In a nationally televised address...
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.
Quickfire business creation…
Guy Kawasaki on his Web 2.0 start-up, Truemors: 0. I wrote 0 business plans for it. The plan is simple: Get a site launched in a few months, see if people...
Bunkered
Over at Wired, Sharon Weinberger (a one-time public diplomacy temp in the US Embassy in Doha) reflects on the ever-growing walls around American embassies:...
Game Theory
Adolescents who spend more time playing online strategy games than concentrating on their studies may be making better choices for the future than their...
Modelling epidemics.
A talk by Joshua Epstein and Donald Burke on how agent-based modelling can help us "take advantage of the social structure to eliminate [an] epidemic...
Phone economics
A neat study reveals the economic benefits of mobile phones in developing countries: "As phone coverage [in Kerala] spread between 1997 and 2000, fishermen...
Why not an auction?
All week, season ticket holders at Liverpool Football Club have been up in arms at a denial of their "right" to a ticket for next week's European Champions'...
Here be anthropomorphic dragons…
Map of online communities and related points of interest...
Don’t touch me – I’m Karl Rove…
Laurie David and Sheryl Crowe question Karl Rove about climate change... We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in...
WMD found in Iraq…
Yes, really, it's true...
On the Draft Manual for 4GW (2): Eliminating the Blob
For Lind et al (writing in their draft field manual), 4th generation warfare is about fighting an idea rather than fighting for territory (in Afghanistan, the...
Muddy boots in the information battlespace
The winner of the US Army Information Operations Proponent (USIOP) essay-writing competition, Elizabeth Robbins, explores [pdf] the rise of the Milblogger and...
Wolfie watch
For those of you following Wolfowitz's woes, World Bank President has full coverage, including this response, from a World Bank retiree, to the President's...
Asking for it
Among the responses to the Iranian hostage crisis, this one: it serves the Brits right. In the LA Times, Niall Ferguson puts it all down to Tony Blair's...
Being Influenced by Obama
Harvard Law professor, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. on his former protege: “He can enter your space and organize your thoughts without necessarily revealing his...
Vandergriff: 4th generation leadership (3)
Major Donald E. Vandergriff (US army retired) - see previous posts (1, 2) - describes a model for educating adaptive leaders, with the aim of producing a...
On the Draft Manual for 4GW (1): Clans
For the authors of the draft field manual on Fourth Generation War (William Lind et al), 4GW is fuelled by the rising importance of non-state entities and the...
Evaluation and the New Public Diplomacy
Talk given by David Steven at the Wilton Park conference: The Future of Public Diplomacy. Focuses on strategies to drive public diplomacy to the heart of the foreign policy armoury (March 2007).
Human rights go viral
Slate on the YouTube defense...
Dividing the Clans
Not sure why the decision has been taken to split the Home Office into two. Perhaps it's about disaggregating incompatible personality types - dividing the...
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The End Violence Solutions Summit
The End Violence Solutions Summit took place this week in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing to life a recommendation made in a CIC report in 2014. Key speakers included the Queen of Sweden, the Deputy Secretary-General, the heads of UNICEF, WHO, and UNODC, and ministers...