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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.
Has Will Hutton gone mad?
Over the weekend, Will Hutton offered a 'modest proposal' so bizarre that it must have left his colleagues at the Observer fearing for his sanity. David...
The delicate machine we do not understand
Quote for the day: The world has been slow to realize that we are living this year in the shadow of one of the greatest economic catastrophes of modern...
Cheap food: bad. Expensive food: terrible. Why the FAO’s glass is always empty
It’s interesting to look back a few years – to when the world was worried that food was too cheap, not too expensive. In 2004, the UN Food and Agricultural...
How many people are hungry?
The good news: poverty is in retreat. The bad news: hunger isn’t. That’s the headline finding for the first Millennium Development Goal , which aims to halve...
“Freeing the entire human race from want”
The MDGs are so over Having just been rude about one World Bank report, here’s a positive review of another – the Global Monitoring Report 2011, which the...
Let the Little Boys Die II – WHO cares?
It’s not just the World Bank which believes that the health of baby boys matters less than girls. Here’s the World Health Organisation: “While women and men...
Let the Little Boys Die – Reaction to the 2012 World Development Report
The 2012 World Development Report has a stat that the World Bank is mighty proud of. I’ll let Bank President, Robert Zoellick tell the story: Imagine if a...
Tea Party Summer Camp
A Tea Party group is running a summer camp that will use 'fun, hands-on activities' to teach kids what the United States is really about. Here's one of the...
Mandy for the IMF? Seriously?
From Martin Kettle in the Guardian, the eye-catching - and bizarre - idea that the Chinese are rooting for Peter Mandelson to take over at the IMF: A more...
Cameron Hearts Tyrants
No-one reads The Independent, but - even so - Downing Street is sure to be steaming at tomorrow's front page:
IMF Head Held on Sexual Assault Charge
Extraordinary news here in New York where the IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn was this afternoon hauled out of the first class cabin of an Air France plane at...
Pakistan’s mysterious population figures
The new UN population projections were published to great fanfare last week, with much of the coverage focusing on a significant increase in overall estimates...
Running out of everything: how scarcity drives crisis in Pakistan
Article on scarcity of resources in Pakistan and what it means for the country.
Lessons Obama learnt from Rumsfeld’s aborted 2005 raid on Pakistan
Today’s raid on Abottabad, where US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, brings back memories of an aborted raid in 2005: A secret military operation in early...
First Twitter news of Bin Ladens death? (updated)
@reallyvirtual - "An IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops" - found himself in the midst of things today:...
Fox Breaks the News
Europe as ‘fat prey’
A tweet to warm Richard Gowan's heart: The links is to Richard's article on 'the scramble for Europe'...
The International Community is Dead
Sometimes an argument is simply so powerful that, at one stroke, it slays a hundred years of delusion and misperception. That is what happened earlier today,...
Murdering language
"Language is one area of culture that Nicolas Sarkozy can't dominate," complains Hélène Cixous in the Guardian, "so he mangles it with a calculated...
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