Interview with Alan Fowler

Bio: Alan Fowler worked as a manager, adviser, researcher and writer. He has made specific contributions to development through his books, publications and presentations. His focus lies on the experience and perspectives of citizens, civil society and non-governmental organisations, usually in the context of international relations, aided development, democratisation and social change. Prof. dr. Alan Fowler is a past President of the International Society for Third Sector Research and was a b...

Interview with Diego Muñoz Elsner

Bio: Diego Muñoz Elsner is the coordinator of the Global Learning Network on Small Producer Agency in the Globalised Market, part of the Knowledge Programme run by Mainumby in Bolivia, IIED in the UK and Hivos in the Netherlands. He is also an international fellow of the International Institute of Economic Development (IIED) and a researcher-partner and Executive Director of the Centro Mainumby-Ñakurutú. He holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University (USA) and a p...

Interview with Josine Stremmelaar

Bio: Josine Stremmelaar is coordinator of the Knowledge Programme at the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos) based in The Hague, the Netherlands (www.hivos.net). She is former Executive Manager of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl). She has a Master of Arts in Non-Western History at the Free University of Amsterdam. Her interest lies at the intersection of the knowledge landscapes of science, practice and policy, and how this dialogical relationship...

Interview with Salam Kawakibi

Bio: Salam Kawakibi is a researcher in political and social science. He is a senior researcher at Arab Reform Initiative and the University of Amsterdam. His main interests are media, civil societies, international relations and human rights in Arab countries. He also has written many articles on European and Arabic media and books. He is an appointed trainer in human rights and international human law. Furthermore, he is Associate Researcher for IREMAM Aix-en-Provence and GREMMO Lyon, collab...

Interview with the Rt. Rev. Dr David Zac Niringiye

The Rt. Rev. Dr David Zac Niringiye, bishop of All Saints Cathedral in Kampala, talks to Ute Seela about diversity and common ground in Uganda The Pluralism Knowledge Programme serves, among others, as a platform to discuss diverging experiences of and views on diversity and pluralism. The following conversation can be found in full length at the openDemocracy online forum ‘Religion, Gender and Politics’.

Interview with Jackie Dugard

Bio: Jackie Dugard is the Executive Director of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). Prior to co-founding SERI (in January 2010), Jackie was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg between 2004 and 2009.Jackie’s areas of expertise are socio-economic rights, socio-legal studies and access to basic services and justice for the poor. Jackie has a BA (Hons) in African Politics and an LLB from...

Interview with Nishant Shah

 Bio: Nishant Shah is the Research Director at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Bangalore. Prior to CIS Nishant worked as an information architect with Yahoo, Partecs and Khoj Studios, was a Research Analyst for Comat Technologies and designed and taught several courses and workshops on the aesthetics and Politics of New Digital Media, for undergraduate and graduate level students in different universities around the world.Nishant has done his Ph.D. doctoral work from the Cen...