Najam Interviewed on Engaging Youth to Build Stability
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article exploring how engaging youth can help build stability and reduce violence. Najam is the author of the recent Pakistan National Human Development Report.
Najam was quoted in a July 31, 2018 article in New Security Beat entitled “Forever Young: Engaging Youth to Build Stability and Reduce Violence.”
From the text of the article:
According to Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and the author of thePakistan National Human Development Report, “the future of Pakistan, good or bad, will be decided by those who are between 15 and 29 years of age today. Every election between now and 2045 is going to be decided by young voters and predominately new voters.”
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and a professor of international relations and also of earth and environment at Boston University. He was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for advancing the public understanding of climate change science.