SPP Associate Dean Julia Buxton participated in a panel discussion at the U.S. International Peace Institute (IPI) on November 16. The event, entitled "Sustainable Development and the World Drug Problem," was chaired by IPI Director of Research and Publications Adam Lupel. The panel included Jürg Lauber, permanent representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, Tenu Avafia from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Summer Walker of the United Nations University (UNU).
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November 30, 2015
"The past is speaking quite loudly in the present," observed Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. Schell was commenting on the powerful influence that past events and former leaders have on the current "China model," and the way that China is perceived by others.
November 30, 2015
During a presentation at the LatinEast conference at Corvinus University in Budapest on November 5, Associate Dean Julia Buxton argued that existing drug control strategies have failed and must change to adapt to today's reality. The international drug control framework is based on ideas and approaches that were popularized by the United States over 120 years ago, explained Buxton, citing the US alcohol prohibition experience (1920-1933).
November 23, 2015
SPP Visiting Professor Kinga Göncz has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a distinguished panel on health technology innovation and access. The panel, which is co-chaired by Ruth Dreifuss, former president of Switzerland, and Festus Mogae, former president of Botswana, has been tasked "to ensure that everyone can access quality treatment at affordable costs while also incentivizing innovation and the development of new technologies such as vaccines, medicines and diagnostics."
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