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  • Farida Shaheed appointed independent expert in the field of cultural rights by Human Rights Council Farida Shaheed appointed independent expert in the field of cultural rights by Human Rights Council

    As the latest issue of Development tackles the themes of 'Xenophobia, Culture and Identity', SID welcomes the news that Ms Farida Shaheed, Director of Research in Shirkat Gah's Women's Resource Centre in Pakistan and long-term collaborator of Development, was appointed independent expert in the fiel...

  • Development, Culture and Conflict Development, Culture and Conflict

    This is the introduction to the article 'Development, Culture and Conflict' by Jan Pronk, President of the Society for International Development, published in Development 52.4 'Xenophobia, Culture and Identity'. From 1945 to 1989 international relations were characterized by two major conflicts....

  • Editorial 52.4: Racism, Xenophobia and Development Editorial 52.4: Racism, Xenophobia and Development

    by Wendy Harcourt Too often mainstream development skirts around the tricky realities of racism and xenophobia or fear of the 'other'. Such discussions happen on the margins of development policy circles. They are not quite what one wants to air in debates on economics and trade or high-level sta...

  • Indigenous peoples: diverse cultures, same obstacles Indigenous peoples: diverse cultures, same obstacles

    The Second Course in ‘Applied Anthropology to Development Processes’, organized by the University of the Rome ‘La Sapienza’ with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the participation of the Society for International Development (SID), hosted a seminar on ‘Alternative...

  • Vol.52.4 'Xenophobia, Culture and Identity' Vol.52.4 ‘Xenophobia, Culture and Identity’

    Racism and xenophobia are a global and persistent phenomenon, but the harsh and often violent manifestations of intolerance often sit uncomfortably within mainstream development. Development practitioners and policymakers alike often fail to confront its impact, avoiding the implications of hostilit...

  • Launch of Development 52.3 'Beyond Economics' Launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’

    Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and safety of our streets alike. It measur...

  • Editorial 52.3: What Economics Needs to Become Editorial 52.3: What Economics Needs to Become

    by Wendy Harcourt In a volume on culture and identity it might seem at first somewhat puzzling to have the third issue devoted to 'Beyond Economics'. Following on from issues on 'sexuality and development', 'power, movements, change' and anticipating 'xenophobia, culture and identity' the topic m...

  • Editorial 52.2: Women's Global Organizing: Celebrations and cautions Editorial 52.2: Women’s Global Organizing: Celebrations and cautions

    By Wendy Harcourt Recent Forums of the Association of Women's Rights and Development (AWID) are marked by an energy that you cannot forget. The Forum on the 'Power of Movements' held in South Africa, November 2008 was no exception. From the giant screens of the plenaries, the hundreds of women ma...

  • Vol.52.3 'Beyond Economics' Vol.52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’

    How has the current financial crisis challenged the givens in economic thinking?How should development policy respond? Can economics be reshaped to meet human development needs? This issue of Development takes up the challenge of rethinking the culture of economics in the wake of the current cris...

  • Vol. 52. 2 'Power, Movements, Change' Vol. 52. 2 ‘Power, Movements, Change’

    Development's issue 'Power, Movements and Change' reports on the 11th Association for Women's   Rights in Development (AWID) International Forum held in South Africa in November 2008, a dynamic feminist space where over 2,000 women's rights activists from around the world came together to discuss...

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