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In 2015, France hosted the conference on climate referred to as COP 21. Even before that conference, there was an active interest in the development issues raised by climate change and its impact. Over the last few years, a number of research programs on the theme of...
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Jan Morris, who died at the end of 2020, was a Commonwealth Fund fellow in 1953 and wrote about her fellowship travels in her first book, Coast to Coast. It begins with a gripping approach to New York: “New York, New York At one time or another I have approached some...
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The award of a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in September 1957 led to my second introduction to the United States. My first had been in July 1940, as a boy of nine, evacuated for the duration from invasion-threatened England. September 1957 felt very different. The War...
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About the Author Ken Sargent was born in 1924, and brought up in Keswick, Cumbria; with the English Lake District at his doorstep it was little wonder that he developed a life-long interest in the environment and its management. After reading Forestry at Edinburgh...
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The year 2020 will be remembered as the year that changed the world. COVID-19 changed the way we look at our lives, the way we behave, and the way we do business. Even when the pandemic is eventually over, things will never be the same again. So how can a quality...
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Every Harkness Fellow I have had the privilege to meet regards their time living and studying in the USA as a gift, a life changing gift in most cases. The experiences and insights gained can play out in their career for many years. For some, an award set up in...
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The philanthropist, Edward Stephen Harkness’ inspirational idea to support international understanding through the Commonwealth/Harkness Fellowships, originated in 1925. It has become an internationally acclaimed scholarship program, still running successfully 95...
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Not a year goes by without news of some environmental disaster happening somewhere or another around the globe. 2020 is no exception. Wildfires across Australia and California, temperatures of over 35° Celsius in the Arctic, locust swarms in eastern Africa brought...
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In Spring last year I met Eliza Bonham Carter, Curator and Head of the RA Schools, who made possible the Harkness event in July 2019 at the Royal Academy. Eliza had said that she believed that her father was a Commonwealth Fellow. I had a copy of S Gorley Putt’s...
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Each year we ask returning Harkness Fellows to share their learning from their time as a fellow. Mary Docherty offers an interesting link between personal and professional learning, articulating something many of us felt as we looked back on home from across the...
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As I retired from being The Economist’s Diplomatic Editor, after 30 years covering the world outside the UK, if anyone had predicted that I would find myself lined up among the City of London’s Livery Masters, wearing the royal blue robes, gold chain and (when I...
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John gave the opening address earlier this year at the 2019 International Mediation Symposium, in Salzburg. He shares his presentation with us. I’d like to start with some provocation. Imagine these alternatives to the usual headlines: Why not? Are these not just as...
