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After the crisis: the need for a new monetary system
As part of the ongoing discussion on Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 leading up to the journal launches in New York (29 October 2009) and The Hague (11 December 2009), Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed James Robertson, an independent writer and activist on economic alternatives (www.jamesrobertson.com). In 1984 he co-founded the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London. His latest book is The History of Money: From Its Origins to Our Time.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Authoritarianisms, Regime Resilience and State-Society Relations: Comparing Political Change in Syria and Iran
Steven Heydemann (U.S. Institute for Peace and Georgetown University) and Reinoud Leenders (University of Amsterdam) are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal for writing a paper within the framework of a joint research effort on Authoritarianisms, Regime Resilience and State-Society Relations: Comparing Political Change in Syria and Iran. The paper is to be presented in a project workshop and will be considered for publication in an edited volume or a special edition of a major academi...Dialogues of Knowledge
In August, the Civil Society Building programme organized a 'Research in Progress' seminar in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. This event brought together representatives of three major movements in the region: the Guatemalan Indigenous People’s movement, the Women’s movement from Nicaragua, and the Costa Rican Movement against CAFTA. The workshop provides a space for sharing and feedback on research progress, before the teams embarked on the last phase of finalizing their research reports, whic...Knowledge Management for Development Journal
The Knowledge Management for Development Journal is a peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management for development – for and by development practitioners, researchers and policymakers. The journal recently moved to Routledge and Volume 5 just came out.
Excellence and relevance in development research
The Platform MDG Profs, an initiative of Dutch research and higher education associations, councils, funding organisations and Dutch ministries, in cooperation with Hivos, is looking for examples of research which are demonstrably excellent academically as well as relevant to development cooperation.
Gender mainstreaming or awaystreaming
Originally, gender mainstreaming (GM) carried the promise of a transformative strategy, by which policy formulation and implementation would be reorganized and improved with the ultimate goal of promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. Over the past decade, GM has ran the risk of turning into an integration strategy. GM was rapidly and readily accepted by many Dutch and international development institutions after the Beijing conference (1995). Yet, the GM strategies and policies w...
From love declarations to relationships
The sector needs to become more knowledge intensive and more collaborative if it is to make a difference. In particular, cooperation across the different domains of academia, policy and practice is increasingly acknowledged as crucial to comprehending the complexity of development and intervening effectively. So in recent years many mutual declarations of love have been voiced, but is the knowledge landscape of development really changing?
Column by Shobha Raghuram - Valuing Development Knowledges
Knowledges about development present to the publics unique multidimensional theories and narratives about the struggles of people world over to attain social justice, to set right the inequalities, and, resolve the contradictions that beset our lives. These knowledges underscore the inseparability of precepts and practices. Foundational issues are being raised by Paul Hoebink and Alan Fowler about development work, development aid and the politics of being faithful to one’s mission. I contin...A concise guide to the basics
The world is not working well. For more and more people, life is unfair and insecure. In fact, for years now the global future has looked less rather than more politically certain, financially stable and ecologically viable. CDC introduces novel ideas about citizen efforts that can turn this alarming reality around.
Column by Alan Fowler: Aided development is a language industry
Aided development is a language industry. This opening sentence draws on the important messages to be found in Paul Hoebink’s column for the previous Newsletter. It does so from a novel and challenging way of looking at development cooperation which is emerging from the civic driven change (CDC) initiative hosted by the Institute of Social Studies. Read the column here.