UN “Rio + 20″ preparations under way

Dick Taffe — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:17:32 +0000

Preparations have begun at the United Nations for the global sustainable development summit to be held in Brazil in 2012, with the “Rio + 20″ summit to mark the 20th anniversary of the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro which was held 20 years after the 1972 environmental conference in Stockholm. International relations Professors Adil Najam, director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Henrik Selin, a research fellow at the Center, write in a New Strait Times commentary that sustainable development is the key to a “Rio + 20″ agreement.

“They should seek to craft a global new deal for sustainable development; a deal that could finally help bridge the North-South divide by tackling poverty as well as over-consumption, environmental degradation as well as social justice, and greenness of the economy along with sustainable livelihoods.”

Contact Adil Najam, 617-358-4000, anajam@bu.edu; Henrik Selin, 617-358-2590, selin@bu.edu

Times Square bomb suspect

Dick Taffe — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:42:49 +0000

Investigators are trying to determine any connections between a Pakistani-American charges in the failed Times Square car bombing and any international terrorist groups, possibly the Pakistani Taliban. International relations Professor Adil Najam, director of the Pardee Center for the Student of the Longer-Range Future and editor of “Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community,” spoke with WNYC radio in New York about suspect Faisal Shahzad (l.) and the danger of making assumptions about the Pakistani community in America.

“I think a key element here is for the media as well as society not to take an incident and extrapolate upon it to make large blanket statements about a community as a whole.”

Contact Adil Najam, 617-358-4000, anajam@bu.edu

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UN “Rio + 20″ preparations under way

Times Square bomb suspect