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Interview with Catherine Walsh: Human Development and Buen Vivir
On the occasion of the launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Catherine Walsh, an activist-intellectual long involved in social movement struggle, first in the USA and in the last 15 years in Ecuador and Latin America with...
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Gender Matters – CSW54: Making the linkages
by Wendy Harcourt There is no doubt that there is a lot of knowledge gathered at the CSW. I have been scribbling non-stop, picking up new ideas and ways of thinking. The spectrum goes from issues around multilateralism and how institutions are not working for women’s rights, to in-depth ...
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The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part IV
by Angela Zarro in response to Bethany Ojalehto and Jacob Akech Bethany’s article takes a close and hard look at the condition of being a refugee, going beyond any use of definitions and categories. The stories that Bethany tells, remind us that refugees are first and foremost people and like ...
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Virtual launch: Vol. 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’
Twenty years after the first publication of the UNDP Human Development report, the journal revisits the concept of human development. How can human development be revitalized to empower people to enact change? In 2010, Volume 53 of Development will return to those key themes raised by the founders o...
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Interview with Gustavo Esteva: Land and the commons: new forms of citizens’ struggle
On the occasion of the launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Gustavo Esteva, a grassroots activist and public, deprofessionalized intellectual. Author of more than 30 books, he was advisor to the Zapatistas and participat...
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Not one track, not two tracks, but a completely new track: A response from Nicola Bullard to Jan Pronk
This is a commentary article by Nicola Bullard* on the opinion piece “Beyond Copenhagen” by Jan Pronk. For those of us who consider ourselves part of the climate justice movement, the spectacular failure of the Copenhagen climate talks was not only expected, but almost welcomed. This may b...
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How can the international community help Somalia move forward?
By Abdinur Aw Ali* External influences, at the regional and global levels, are playing pivotal roles in Somalia, both in positive and negative ways. And while many Somalis, increasingly believe that left to their own devices, the political/tribal conflict in the country have better chance of been s...
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SID Bonn Chapter
SID Bonn Chapter hosts a series of lectures on issues of environmental policy. About once a month, scient...
Conflict
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How can the internatio...
By Abdinur Aw Ali* External influences, at the regional and global levels, are playing pivotal roles in ...
Development
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Migration, gender and ...
How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in interna...
Ecology
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Not one track, not two...
This is a commentary article by Nicola Bullard* on the opinion piece “Beyond Copenhagen” by Jan Pronk...
Gender
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Migration, gender and ...
How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in interna...
Migration
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Migration, gender and ...
How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in interna...
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Gender Matters - CSW54...
by Wendy Harcourt There is no doubt that there is a lot of knowledge gathered at the CSW. I hav...
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Beyond Copenhagen...
By Jan Pronk | Changes in international power relations have been blamed for the failure of the internati...
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Migration, gender and development: A conversation from a comparative perspective
How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in international migration patterns between women and men? Sara Farris’ article ...
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SID Bonn Chapter
SID Bonn Chapter hosts a series of lectures on issues of environmental policy. About once a month, scientists and members of staff of development organizations are invited to sp...
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Historic article for women’s rights in South Africa: When ‘traditional values’ are a stick to beat women
Source: Timeslive website SID Forum would like to draw attention of its followers to the courageous article by Pregs Govender, who wrote in her personal capacity this provoca...
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Interview with Catherine Walsh: Human Development and Buen Vivir
On the occasion of the launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Catherine Walsh, an activist-intellec...
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International Women’s Day: Going Strong at 100!
Spurce: AWID By Kathambi Kinoti On March 8, 2010, women will celebrate the one hundredth International Women’s Day (IWD). Since 1910[i] one day has been set aside every ...
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Gender Matters – CSW54: Making the linkages
by Wendy Harcourt There is no doubt that there is a lot of knowledge gathered at the CSW. I have been scribbling non-stop, picking up new ideas and ways of thinking. T...
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Gender Matters – CSW54: How do we bring about change?
Today I found myself sitting at the top of a very tall hotel looking over the skyline of Manhattan in one of the parallel of parallel sessions organized by UNIFEM. The topic ...
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The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part IV
by Angela Zarro in response to Bethany Ojalehto and Jacob Akech Bethany’s article takes a close and hard look at the condition of being a refugee, going beyond any use of ...
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Gender matters – CSW54: Where did it all go wrong?
Sitting in the belly of the beast in a small meeting room in the UN around 25 women and a few men puzzled what would development look like if gender really mattered. At the laun...
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Virtual launch: Vol. 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’
Twenty years after the first publication of the UNDP Human Development report, the journal revisits the concept of human development. How can human development be revitalized to...
