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Join us for a special book launch!
On 21 June 2010, from 17.30 to 18.30 we invite you to join us in the Atrium of the Institute of Social Studies, during which we will toast on a special occasion: the publication of the book ‘Participation for What: Social Change or Social Control?” (ISS, 2010).
Debating Knowledge Production and Sharing during CERES Summer School
On 23 and 24 June 2010 the Research School for Resource Studies for Development (CERES) is organising a Summer School on "Global Governance, the Crisis and Development: New Direction in Development Cooperation" at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague.
Knowledges for Development, Development for Knowledges?
The Development Dialogue is a yearly initiative of PhD candidates at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The objective is to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research by young scholars and PhD candidates in different fields of development studies.
Knowledge Programme Participates at Conference in Peru
LIMA, Peru – From 26 May until 28 May 2010 the ‘Encuentro de Saberes y Movimientos: Entre las Crisis y los Otros Mundos Posibles’ (ed.: “Meeting of Knowledges and Movements: between crisis and other possible worlds”) takes place in Lima, Peru. On these days national and international representatives of social movements, researchers, artists and development practitioners will take part in a critical dialogue over what role knowledge and social movements play in creating new opportunities for s...
Nicaragua in the Picture
On May 15th 2010 the Utrecht-Leon City Association has organised a Nicaraguan movie night. The event is screening seven short movies about Nicaragua, made by Nicaraguans. One of the movies is produced by our Knowledge Programme partners Cinco and Movimiento Autonomo de Mujeres in Nicaragua: "The Struggle of the Women's Rights Movement in Nicaragua 1998-2008". The 20-minute movie shows the history of the Nicaraguan women's movement, its strategies, a few of its successes and their co...
Civil Society 2.0
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, WordPress, Wikipedia, Wikileaks. What is the power of social media for local and international development cooperation? And what is this 'new' power to exchange information and knowledge used for, and by whome? How effective is it, and how long will this 'web 2.0 era' last? Soon we will explore these questions in an upcoming blogpost by our team members. In the meantime, let us first test the power of Web 2.0 ourselves. Besides following the Knowledge Pro...
Building or Deconstructing Civil Society?
At the conference “Power to the People? (Con-)Tested Civil Society in Search of Democracy”, which was hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD, Uppsala University), in cooperation with the Swedish International Development Cooperative Agency (Sida), our Civil Society Building Knowledge Programme team member Marlieke Kieboom interviewed a range of participants and asked them several outstanding yet relevant questions. The respondents are: Mattias Jonsjö (Swedish policy specialist...
How Civil is Civil Society?
On March 23/24 the Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD, Uppsala University), in cooperation with the Swedish International Development Cooperative Agency (Sida), organised a conference to debate questions over civil society and democratization processes. The 2-day event is part of a five-year project from CSD, which aims to strengthen Swedish research about civil society and its role in international development as well as to strengthen research-based knowledge in policy development in th...
Sweet like Sugercane, Strong as Rum
The Peruvian government puts little effort to change the situation of gays, lesbians and transsexuals. Fortunately this group increasingly knows how to organize itself, and not only in Peru’s capital Lima. As far as the jungle and the Andes, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people (also known as LGBTs) organize themselves to fight for their rights. Below you can read notes drawn up by Marten van den Berge, a Dutch researcher who’s currently conducting research for Hivos and ISS in the C...
Civil Society Gateway
How to connect journalists with leaders and members from civil society organisations around the world? A new initiative by CIVICUS and InterPressService (IPS) makes an effort to bridge this information gap, to let 'the grassroots' more effectively communicate with the media on their actions against poverty, as "visions and voices from the South" are often missing in mainstream media.