In 2003, I wrote 'A Long Peace', a pamphlet on Northern Ireland with Unionist politician Trevor Ringland and nationalist writer Mick Fealty (founder of...
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.
Election 2.0
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Coercive persuasion
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YouTube Changes the Climate
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Vandergriff: 4th generation leadership (2)
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Bin Laden’s reading list
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Which war?
Tory MP, Douglas Carswell has been in Afghanistan. He's come back optimistic, but believes the war-on-drugs is interfering with the war-on-terror: We are...
The swindle
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It’s not enough to be right
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Squeezing diplomacy
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A consumer’s guide to microcredit…
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Clans and open source intelligence…
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Security in Iraq…
50% of Iraqis now say that they have personally experienced the kidnapping or murder of a family member, friend or colleague in the past three years. In...
Vandergriff: 4th generation leadership
William Lind rates John Boyd protégée, Major Donald E Vandergriff, almost as greatly as he despairs of the US army's ability to change: I would like to think...
Googling Bin Laden…
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World Orders…
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