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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.
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Chill Out: Why Cooperation is Balancing Conflict Among Major Powers in the New Arctic
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Best of Times, Worst of Times
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Open Letter to the Co-Chairs of the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda
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Obama, Cameron, Churchill, and the Right-Wing Echo Chamber
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Is Oil a Bubble?
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Newt Gingrich’s Declaration of Energy Independence – Beyond Peak Oil
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Heartland: Hacked Off (updated)
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Agenda 21 is Evil
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Seriously?
William Hague's (alleged) advice to David Cameron ahead of the euro summit: If it’s a choice between keeping the euro together or keeping the Conservative...
Britain and Europe after the veto
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Newt Gingrich – climate change hero
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Balls the new Brown
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How close is the UK to the edge? (updated)
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Mortgage subsidies – it’s not the young who win
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