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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.
Starvation in Pakistan
I have spent much of my time in Pakistan over the past few months and have been deeply concerned by signs that an unheralded food emergency is under...
Bombing schools
Most of us, I think, have an utterly skewed view of the impact of terrorism - weighted heavily towards (very rare) attacks on Western cities or the murder of...
Zardari’s Goats
Recently, I wrote about the devastating – and largely unreported – impact that resource scarcity is having on Pakistan’s fragile economy and society. Barely a...
American Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
Article published in World Politics Review on current American foreign policy
The World in 2020 – Geopolitical and Trends Analysis
Report asking how organisations can prosper in what will be a turbulent period for world order
Getting our priorities right
I am hugely reassured to hear that, in this era of global crisis, British diplomats are focusing on the really important issues: An agreement has been signed...
The Onion War
On the face of it Pakistan may have bigger things to worry about, but recent weeks have seen it fall out with India over the humble onion: The pungent...
Incitement to Murder
This is not about religion. Aasia Bibi, sentenced to hang for blasphemy after an argument with her neighbours, may be Christian, but she is also poor and a...
Nick Robinson loses the plot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ye06r2_n8[/youtube]
Has the Treasury shafted the FCO (again)?
I know Treasury mandarins don’t laugh much, but I suspect a few of them will be smirking on their way home tonight. If I read the spending review right,...
UK Spending Review 2010 – live blog
I am at Sky News for on a panel of experts (find some of them on Twitter here), covering the international beat (diplomacy, development, any fallout from...
DFID and fragile states
For DFID - the heart of yesterday's defence review was a new commitment to spend 30% of Britain's development cash on "priority national security and fragile...
National Security Strategy – or selling British business
Beyond sharing the ‘age of uncertainty’ title, the UK’s new national security strategy overlaps considerably with the Chatham House report on British foreign...
Age of Uncertainty
Evans and Steven, Chatham House, June 2010: UK National Security Strategy, HMG, October 2010:
The Mosque at Ground Zero
No - not the planned Islamic Community Centre in Park Place - but the prayer room on the 51st floor of World Trade Center's South Tower, where some of the...
Global Dashboard Drinks 2010
And a great time was had by all... Thanks so much to ace photographer, Brent Jones, for taking the pics... (Head here for the full size slideshow.)
McChrystal overruns the civilians (updated)
The McChrystal Rolling Stone article is a fascinating read. Sure, there are plenty of insults - the piece opens with the General being forced to dine with a...
The woman who would be President
The problem of complexity
Atul Gawande: Half a century ago, medicine was neither costly nor effective. Since then, however, science has combated our ignorance. It has enumerated and...
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