Tag: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

  • Nation & World

    ‘Jazz’ diplomacy

    Richard Holbrooke, a diplomat for nearly 50 years, imparts to a Harvard audience his insights into current international conflicts, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.

    4–6 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Global warnings

    Harvard Kennedy School panelists say that the slippage in mainstream media outlets means more voices argue about environmental issues, prompting the public to have difficulty sorting out the cacophony and even to doubt global warming.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    HKS’s Belfer Center creates Ernest May Fellowship

    The Belfer Center has announced the Ernest May Fellowship, a new initiative to help build the next generation of men and women who will bring professional history to bear on strategic studies and major issues of international affairs.

    1–2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Judging the campaign finance ruling

    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down corporate limits on campaign financing, several Harvard faculty members weigh in on what the ruling means and where it’s likely to lead.

    5–7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Assessing Obama’s Afghan plan

    A Kennedy School panel discusses and debates President Obama’s plan to add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to try to stabilize that nation and allow American troops to begin withdrawing in 2011.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    John P. Holdren named President-elect Obama’s Science Advisor

    President-elect Barack Obama today announced that he has selected Harvard’s John P. Holdren to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the new administration. The post, popularly known as “the President’s science advisor,” also includes directorship of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President…

    10–15 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Harvard launches major initiative to help design international climate agreements

    Harvard University announced in early July a two-year project to help identify key design elements of a future international agreement on climate change, drawing on the ideas of leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and advocacy organizations, both in the industrialized world and in developing countries.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Past, present of flu pandemics examined

    The global response to bioterrorism and AIDS is increasing health system capacity in a way also useful if avian flu strikes, according to experts attending an interdisciplinary conference on Asian flus. The bad news, however, is that vast disparities in health care systems still persist and, despite the expanding capacity in recent years, bird flu…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    New report highlights safe, secure method for managing spent nuclear fuel

    A joint Harvard University/University of Tokyo team of nuclear energy, nonproliferation, and waste management experts concludes in a new study that technologies are available to store spent nuclear fuel from hundreds of nuclear power plants around the world safely and securely for decades to come. To overcome political obstacles that have limited options for storage…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Light weapons are most common in today’s small wars

    In the 1990s, approximately 4 million soldiers and civilians were killed by small arms in the internecine conflicts of the developing world. More people, in other words, were killed in that decade in war by small arms than by major weapon systems, according to a Harvard research report. Likewise, millions have been wounded, displaced from…

    1–2 minutes