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Fred Carver

Fred Carver

Consulting Editor, SDG Action

Fred Carver is a strategic consultant and researcher in the field of international relations, with specific expertise on the United Nations, Peacekeeping, Atrocity Prevention, civil wars, and political violence. He is a Director at Strategy for Humanity. He worked for four years as head of Policy for UNA-UK, implementing campaigns on UN reform, sexual violence prevention and UK foreign policy, and edited a magazine and two journals. Prior to joining UNA-UK, he ran the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice, a human rights NGO which campaigned for a lasting peace in Sri Lanka based upon justice and accountability for crimes committed in the course of Sri Lanka's civil war.

Articles by Fred Carver

  2. Older, not wiser

    Fred Carver

    Global governance — Global

    The last nine years have seen seismic societal, economic, and political shifts around the world – meaningful progress on the SDGs isn’t among them. We know what needs fixing and in many cases how – the legacy of this generation of leaders will be whether it had the courage and wisdom to act

    SDGs: 1 5 9 10 13 16 17

  3. Walking the path ahead

    Fred Carver

    Climate — Global

    Humanity should survive the decades to come, but will it thrive? A lot depends on how many costs our leaders are willing to pay up front, and how many they will wait to have inflicted upon them

    Article

    SDGs: 1 9 10 13 17

  4. In the balance

    Fred Carver

    Climate — Global

    Humanity’s failure to learn and adapt from repeated crises does not bode well for the bold, transformational changes that must happen urgently if we’re to achieve the world promised by the SDGs. There will be no second chance

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    SDGs: 3 4 8 10 13 14 15 16 17