News
Update: March 2012
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures welcomes Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Representatives of the Pardee Center for International Futures were pleased to present ongoing research to Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the 66th United States Secretary of State, on her recent visit to the University of Denver. During the presentation, Dr. Rice explored some of her wide-ranging interests, including demographic trends, changes in the distribution of relative material power in the international system, and democratization. See this video for Dr. Rice’s brief but enthusiastic comments about the Pardee Center in an unrelated speech later in the day.
From Left to Right: Christopher Hill (Dean of the Korbel School for International Studies and Former US Ambassador), Dr. Barry Hughes (Director of the Pardee Center for International Futures and John Evans Professor), Dr. Condoleezza Rice (Professor at Stanford and former Secretary of State), and Jonathan Moyer (Dissertation Fellow at the Pardee Center for International Futures)
African Futures Project publishes policy brief on curbing traffic accidents in Africa
Putting the Brakes on Traffic Fatalities—the third quarterly policy brief in the Institute for Security Studies/Pardee Center African Futures Project series—has been published on the Institute for Security Studies website. The authors argue that keeping traffic fatalities at current rates would prevent 4.2 million traffic deaths and add 234 billion USD to the continent’s GDP between now and 2050. The analysis was made possible by extension made to the International Futures (IFs) model for Improving Global Health, the third volume in the Pardee Center’s Patterns of Potential Human Progress series.
African Futures Project meets with NEPAD and National Planning Commission of South Africa
The Pardee Center for International Futures sent Jonathan Moyer to Pretoria, South Africa to join Institute for Security Studies staff in meetings with prospective national and continental partners for new African Futures projects. First, Jonathan and representatives of the Institute for Security Studies met with representatives of NEPAD (the New Partnership for Africa’s Development) to discuss the creation of long-term target-setting and evaluation for a variety of aspects of African development. Later in the visit, representatives of the African Futures Project met with representatives of the National Planning Commission of South Africa in The Presidency to present the IFs model and discuss plans for representing South Africa at the provincial level in IFs.