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As the year comes to a close, it is time to say "thank you" to our community and wish everybody a good festive season and smooth transition into the New Year!
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In this Between the Lines podcast, IDS Director Peter Taylor speaks to Margarita Gómez from Southern Voice and Kaia Ambrose from IDRC.
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/sklyixj1ls
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/sklyixj1ls
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In this Between the Lines podcast, IDS Director Peter Taylor speaks to Margarita Gómez from Southern Voice and Kaia Ambrose from IDRC.
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/sklyixj1ls
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/sklyixj1ls
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#DSA2026 Call for Papers!
🚨 One more day left to submit! 🚨
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin
Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
🚨 One more day left to submit! 🚨
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin
Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
December 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
#DSA2026 Call for Papers!
🚨 One more day left to submit! 🚨
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin
Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
🚨 One more day left to submit! 🚨
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin
Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
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First time writing for Broadstreet blog! With @apvjustino.bsky.social and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, we wrote about the Special Issue just published at Comparative Political Studies: www.broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-o...
Legacies of Repression: How Europe’s Violent 20th Century Still Shapes Its Politics
by Laia Balcells, Patricia Justino, and Andrea Ruggeri
www.broadstreet.blog
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
First time writing for Broadstreet blog! With @apvjustino.bsky.social and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, we wrote about the Special Issue just published at Comparative Political Studies: www.broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-o...
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Hickel (@jasonhickel.bsky.social) answers the horizontalists: degrowth needs more than ZADs & assemblies to transform the economy. His response on democratic ecosocialism, delinking & Global South liberation. Read his full text 👇
On degrowth politics and strategy
Jason Hickel responds to critics of his interview published in the summer, therefore continuing the debate around "what is degrowth" and around the strategies to achieve degrowth.
degrowth.info
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hickel (@jasonhickel.bsky.social) answers the horizontalists: degrowth needs more than ZADs & assemblies to transform the economy. His response on democratic ecosocialism, delinking & Global South liberation. Read his full text 👇
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Just one day left, go, go, go!
⚠️ Only two more days to submit!
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Call for Abstracts - EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions?
29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 21 December 2025
www.eadi.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just one day left, go, go, go!
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The road to achieving SDG 1 - ‘No Poverty’ - is a challenging one. But in 2025, we’ve seen reasons to have hope in this journey.
Visit our website to find out more about what OPHI has been up to this year: ophi.org.uk/ophi-news
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Visit our website to find out more about what OPHI has been up to this year: ophi.org.uk/ophi-news
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December 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The road to achieving SDG 1 - ‘No Poverty’ - is a challenging one. But in 2025, we’ve seen reasons to have hope in this journey.
Visit our website to find out more about what OPHI has been up to this year: ophi.org.uk/ophi-news
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Visit our website to find out more about what OPHI has been up to this year: ophi.org.uk/ophi-news
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The best time to stop a war is before it starts. This is done by investing in peace rather than lining the pockets of the arms industry. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Europe's €800bn militarisation - 'peace through strength' or path to war?
Even before the publication of the defence white paper, EU member states’ military spending for 2024 was €343bn, 2.7 times that of Russia, its stated main adversary, which spent €126.9bn. Meanwhile Br...
euobserver.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The best time to stop a war is before it starts. This is done by investing in peace rather than lining the pockets of the arms industry. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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In this Between the Lines podcast, IDS Director Peter Taylor speaks to Margarita Gómez from Southern Voice and Kaia Ambrose from IDRC.
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/qz3hywmlxx
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/qz3hywmlxx
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In this Between the Lines podcast, IDS Director Peter Taylor speaks to Margarita Gómez from Southern Voice and Kaia Ambrose from IDRC.
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/qz3hywmlxx
They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it.
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/qz3hywmlxx
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📢The most read IGDC blog post with 411 views is: The environmental impact of mass tourism: A case study of Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2023
You can read the full blog here: blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2024/04...
You can read the full blog here: blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2024/04...
The environmental impact of mass tourism: A case study of Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2023 – Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre
Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre
blogs.york.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📢The most read IGDC blog post with 411 views is: The environmental impact of mass tourism: A case study of Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2023
You can read the full blog here: blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2024/04...
You can read the full blog here: blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2024/04...
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There is still time to apply for a funded #PhD in Development Studies @openuniversity.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There is still time to apply for a funded #PhD in Development Studies @openuniversity.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
Just one day left, go, go, go!
⚠️ Only two more days to submit!
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Call for Abstracts - EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions?
29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 21 December 2025
www.eadi.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just one day left, go, go, go!
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🚨📃New article alert: Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria'
This paper examines the combined effects of conflict and climate shocks on the social safety nets of households in fragile settings.
👉Read full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This paper examines the combined effects of conflict and climate shocks on the social safety nets of households in fragile settings.
👉Read full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨📃New article alert: Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria'
This paper examines the combined effects of conflict and climate shocks on the social safety nets of households in fragile settings.
👉Read full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This paper examines the combined effects of conflict and climate shocks on the social safety nets of households in fragile settings.
👉Read full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Progressive yet unfair: the case of informal taxes in the education sector in the DRC
Informal taxes in DRC’s education sector: richest 20% pay 80% of the burden—progressive, but not equitable when access & quality are factored in.
👉 Read more: https://loom.ly/ZmcaKII
#Education #DRCongo #Equity
Informal taxes in DRC’s education sector: richest 20% pay 80% of the burden—progressive, but not equitable when access & quality are factored in.
👉 Read more: https://loom.ly/ZmcaKII
#Education #DRCongo #Equity
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Progressive yet unfair: the case of informal taxes in the education sector in the DRC
Informal taxes in DRC’s education sector: richest 20% pay 80% of the burden—progressive, but not equitable when access & quality are factored in.
👉 Read more: https://loom.ly/ZmcaKII
#Education #DRCongo #Equity
Informal taxes in DRC’s education sector: richest 20% pay 80% of the burden—progressive, but not equitable when access & quality are factored in.
👉 Read more: https://loom.ly/ZmcaKII
#Education #DRCongo #Equity
🧵 On our "Share your decolonising story" project ⬇️
"I consider my story as reflecting a scholarly transition from an empirical, positivist and Eurocentric framework to an advocacy for alternative knowledges, pluriversality, and decoloniality"
This 📙 by @murainal.bsky.social wraps up our decolonising stories project
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2480
This 📙 by @murainal.bsky.social wraps up our decolonising stories project
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2480
Decolonial Journey: #RhodesMustFall and ‘Decolonising Development Studies’ in Ghana and Nigeria
By Luqman Muraina / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project I completed my B.Sc. Sociology in Nigeria with little or no knowledge about alternative epistemologies, coloniality, and poli…
www.developmentresearch.eu
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🧵 On our "Share your decolonising story" project ⬇️
👀 Looking for something to read over the weekend and holidays? Find it here ⬇️
Our last newsletter this year went out, featuring @unu-wider.bsky.social's new open access book on trade, the @igdc.bsky.social annual lecture on Capitalism, Conflict and Climate Emergency and much more from us and our community!
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December 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👀 Looking for something to read over the weekend and holidays? Find it here ⬇️
📅 Save the date!
20 January 2025, 15.00 CET
Happy to announce our first event in January next year!
www.eadi.org/news-2/a-bit...
20 January 2025, 15.00 CET
Happy to announce our first event in January next year!
www.eadi.org/news-2/a-bit...
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📅 Save the date!
20 January 2025, 15.00 CET
Happy to announce our first event in January next year!
www.eadi.org/news-2/a-bit...
20 January 2025, 15.00 CET
Happy to announce our first event in January next year!
www.eadi.org/news-2/a-bit...
As the year comes to a close, it is time to say "thank you" to our community and wish everybody a good festive season and smooth transition into the New Year!
December 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As the year comes to a close, it is time to say "thank you" to our community and wish everybody a good festive season and smooth transition into the New Year!
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How We Push Back Against Fear – Lessons from Harvard
“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
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“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
buff.ly/fQYslDD
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
How We Push Back Against Fear – Lessons from Harvard
“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
buff.ly/fQYslDD
“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
buff.ly/fQYslDD
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We’re one year closer to 2030. What role can MPIs play in achieving the SDGs & beyond?
To make progress we need to make sure we don’t address sustainable development issues - including the SDGs - in silos, but as interconnected challenges.
Find out more: ophi.org.uk/national-mpi...
To make progress we need to make sure we don’t address sustainable development issues - including the SDGs - in silos, but as interconnected challenges.
Find out more: ophi.org.uk/national-mpi...
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We’re one year closer to 2030. What role can MPIs play in achieving the SDGs & beyond?
To make progress we need to make sure we don’t address sustainable development issues - including the SDGs - in silos, but as interconnected challenges.
Find out more: ophi.org.uk/national-mpi...
To make progress we need to make sure we don’t address sustainable development issues - including the SDGs - in silos, but as interconnected challenges.
Find out more: ophi.org.uk/national-mpi...
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📑 Nouvelle publication !
"L’Afrique dans son rapport à la Chine : un partenariat générateur de surendettement", par P. Plane
🔍 Cette situation est sous-estimée en raison du manque de transparence sur les montants et conditions de financement.
👉 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : ferdi.fr/publications...
"L’Afrique dans son rapport à la Chine : un partenariat générateur de surendettement", par P. Plane
🔍 Cette situation est sous-estimée en raison du manque de transparence sur les montants et conditions de financement.
👉 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : ferdi.fr/publications...
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📑 Nouvelle publication !
"L’Afrique dans son rapport à la Chine : un partenariat générateur de surendettement", par P. Plane
🔍 Cette situation est sous-estimée en raison du manque de transparence sur les montants et conditions de financement.
👉 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : ferdi.fr/publications...
"L’Afrique dans son rapport à la Chine : un partenariat générateur de surendettement", par P. Plane
🔍 Cette situation est sous-estimée en raison du manque de transparence sur les montants et conditions de financement.
👉 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : ferdi.fr/publications...
⚠️ Only two more days to submit!
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Call for Abstracts - EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions?
29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 21 December 2025
www.eadi.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
⚠️ Only two more days to submit!
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!
✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels
⏰ is 🏃♀️🏃♂️!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
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🌐 We’re improving our GIGA website – and we need your input!
What matters most to you about what we offer?
👉 Take 5 minutes and share your thoughts in our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
What matters most to you about what we offer?
👉 Take 5 minutes and share your thoughts in our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🌐 We’re improving our GIGA website – and we need your input!
What matters most to you about what we offer?
👉 Take 5 minutes and share your thoughts in our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
What matters most to you about what we offer?
👉 Take 5 minutes and share your thoughts in our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Peace can reshape how local governments are funded.
New UNU-WIDER research on Colombia’s 2016 peace deal finds that PDET municipalities saw a fiscal boost several years after implementation began—driven by ~30% higher per-capita property tax revenue vs similar neighbours.🔗 go.unu.edu/WBmon
New UNU-WIDER research on Colombia’s 2016 peace deal finds that PDET municipalities saw a fiscal boost several years after implementation began—driven by ~30% higher per-capita property tax revenue vs similar neighbours.🔗 go.unu.edu/WBmon
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Peace can reshape how local governments are funded.
New UNU-WIDER research on Colombia’s 2016 peace deal finds that PDET municipalities saw a fiscal boost several years after implementation began—driven by ~30% higher per-capita property tax revenue vs similar neighbours.🔗 go.unu.edu/WBmon
New UNU-WIDER research on Colombia’s 2016 peace deal finds that PDET municipalities saw a fiscal boost several years after implementation began—driven by ~30% higher per-capita property tax revenue vs similar neighbours.🔗 go.unu.edu/WBmon
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📢The most watched video on our YouTube channel this year with 4,764 views is: Decolonising Methods and Methodologies - Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith! You can watch it on our YouTube channel here youtu.be/vLqr2dsNmXo
Decolonising Methods and Methodologies - Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Latest edition of Linda's book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decolonizing-methodologies-9781786998125/
More events like this: https://www.york.ac.uk/igdc/events/
About:
The groundbreaking book…
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December 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📢The most watched video on our YouTube channel this year with 4,764 views is: Decolonising Methods and Methodologies - Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith! You can watch it on our YouTube channel here youtu.be/vLqr2dsNmXo
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In crisis settings, AI promises access to education, but at what cost?
This week’s NORRAG blog (cross-posted from a UNESCO IdeasLAB think piece) explores the ethical paradox of using AI in education amid conflict, displacement, and trauma.
Read more: buff.ly/RNDvJ7x
#EducationInEmergencies
This week’s NORRAG blog (cross-posted from a UNESCO IdeasLAB think piece) explores the ethical paradox of using AI in education amid conflict, displacement, and trauma.
Read more: buff.ly/RNDvJ7x
#EducationInEmergencies
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
In crisis settings, AI promises access to education, but at what cost?
This week’s NORRAG blog (cross-posted from a UNESCO IdeasLAB think piece) explores the ethical paradox of using AI in education amid conflict, displacement, and trauma.
Read more: buff.ly/RNDvJ7x
#EducationInEmergencies
This week’s NORRAG blog (cross-posted from a UNESCO IdeasLAB think piece) explores the ethical paradox of using AI in education amid conflict, displacement, and trauma.
Read more: buff.ly/RNDvJ7x
#EducationInEmergencies