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📣 The call for abstracts for our flagship event is out!

➡️ Choose from 44 Seed and 23 Harvest Panels

🕒 Deadline 21 December

🙏 Please submit and share widely!
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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
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We have a special responsibility to defend whatever space remains for reasoned debate and critical enquiry. The standards of public discourse have fallen sharply, writes Jean Drèze on the DSA blog.
Development studies in a time of genocide:
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November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“It sounds good to talk about ‘financial inclusion’ or ‘lending’ for climate-resilient activities; but the flip side sounds different, namely that climate-related vulnerabilities should be alleviated through debt”

✍🏻 from our debt and Green transition series

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1523
What does green mean in green microfinance?
By Frédéric Huybrechs / Debt and Green Transition blog series An important item on the political agenda of dealing with climate change is the question of how to finance adaptation and mitigation. T…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Decolonising knowledge is political, and involves recognising and addressing power imbalances. So, understanding, amplifying and nourishing different forms of knowledge through different forms of development process seems to be a key dimension of decolonisation."

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2146
Learning and Unlearning: Sowing the Seeds of a Decolonising Mindset
By Peter Taylor / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Beginnings I grew up in an industrial town in the North of the United Kingdom, and as a child my experience of agriculture was …
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November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The humanitarian NGO medico international has adopted a three-pronged strategy towards humanitarian aid: to defend it, to criticize it, and to overcome it. I propose to adopt a similar perspective regarding development cooperation"

From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2231
The End of Development Aid?
By Aram Ziai / Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era Series In the last few months, our object of research has seen some dramatic changes. I am referring to the de-facto dismantling o…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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➡️ How firms and governments adapt to uncertainty in Global #Trade ?

As global trade rules shift rapidly, 🎓 Christian Winkler examines how firms and governments pursue new institutions for stability and predictability.
#internationaleconomics #phd @gvagrad.bsky.social

🎤 Interview: shorturl.at/btmJZ
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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"Also, as new alliances emerge, it is important that they are held accaccountable to ensure that they deliver for justice and equity, and that they incorporate the views and needs of people across the world who are marginalised and underrepresented"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391
Finding Hope amidst the Ruins – Building a new Narrative for Development Cooperation
By Peter Taylor The re-election of President Trump in January 2025 led to an immediate freeze on all international development funding from USAID, the largest international aid donor. As highlighte…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Politics of Waste: Material Flows, Informal Economies, and Global Inequalities

Convened by Ilaha Abasli & @annamelias.bsky.social (International Institute of Social Studies) & Jyothi Thrivikraman & Min Cho (Leiden University College)

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November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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How are the 𝗘𝗨, 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 adapting their international cooperation in a fragmenting world? Are their 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 converging or diverging?

Read the latest blog by @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social & @melisbaydag.bsky.social bit.ly/3K6tdJG (@idos-research.bsky.social)
Turkey, the EU, and China in the world: Does Turbulence lead to Convergence?  - newettg
November, 2025 Authored: Niels Keijzer, Melis Baydag (IDOS) In today’s geopolitically buzzing and unstable world, what seemed unthinkable one month ago can be old news only weeks later. A small […]
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November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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📣 Call for Submission!
@undp.org is excited to announce the launch of the new initiative “Atlas of Innovation in Public Communication”.

Public sector entities are invited to submit their most innovative experiences & ideas: www.undp.org/governance/b...

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Public Communication
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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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"My sad answer is that the available alternatives to the SDGs are much worse, unless you like patriarchy, environmental destruction and national security states."

An older, but ever more relevant article from our blog

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1742
You don’t like the SDGs? Look what else is on offer
By Lauchlan T. Munro My friends on the left generally don’t like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I am told the SDGs are neoliberal, incoherent, (neo-)colonial; the SDGs omit too many impo…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Governing Territorial Food Systems: (G)local Pathways to Food and Nutrition Security and Just Transitions

Conv. by Bruno Valim Magalhaes, Claudia König, Bruna Avelhan & Renan Rosolem (Instituto PENSI)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🌿 Explore the intersections of conflict, conservation, and enterprise at EADI/IOB 2026

📅 Submit abstracts by 21 Dec 2025
🔗 https://loom.ly/RxoVmJI

#ConflictAndDevelopment #CitizenScience #AfricaDevelopment #EADI2026
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November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The scale of Hurricane Melissa's devastation, seen just as the international community prepared for #COP30, emphasises that climate talks must ensure the needs of the poorest communities are met.

Read more in Sabina Alkire & Carlos Alvarado Quesada's ODID blog: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/can-hur...
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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How can the world tackle poverty and climate change together?

As the world gathers for #COP30, our latest blog revisits a conversation with @opkuusela.bsky.social and @tonysangle.bsky.social on how innovation, policy and research can drive a just green transition.

Read the blog 👉 go.unu.edu/VbbP2
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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📢 New research!

As world leaders meet at #COP30 in Brazil, the new IDS Bulletin ‘Struggles for justice in the energy transition: Voices from the front lines’ reveals that the green energy transition is far from ‘just’ and inclusive.

Read at: https://ids.pulse.ly/ogfkeyvvdm
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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There's something not being talked about enough at #COP30 that could quietly undermine its #climate commitments: Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

Our Investment Director, Suzy Nikièma, explains what it is, why it matters, and how negotiators and representatives can take action now. 👇
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“In a context of geopolitical turbulence, it is critical to develop a compelling narrative for increased global development cooperation”

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391
Finding Hope amidst the Ruins – Building a new Narrative for Development Cooperation
By Peter Taylor The re-election of President Trump in January 2025 led to an immediate freeze on all international development funding from USAID, the largest international aid donor. As highlighte…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"Coupled with the time and cost of setting up these deals, it is hard to see blended finance as an approach that can meaningfully contend with the structural dimensions of the debt and ecological crisis"

🔎From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1487
The narrow allure of bridging funding gaps with blended finance
By Patrick Bigger / Debt and Green Transition blog series The last decade has seen the spectacular growth of a new genre of Development Bank and consultancy report- the Gap report. Covering issues …
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November 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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🔍 New ideas shaping global citizenship, corporate responsibility, and demographic change

🗓️ Deadline: 21 Dec 2025
🌐 Details: https://loom.ly/RxoVmJI

#DigitalDevelopment #SocialProtection #PopulationStudies #Humanities #EADI2026
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November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption"

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
Unravelling the Geographies of the Green Transition: Understanding the Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus
By Tobias Franz and Angus McNelly The transition from fossil fuels to green energy in the 21st century – driven by the urgent need to address anthropogenic climate change – represents a monumental …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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In #financial negotiations, how do perceptions from the IMF and the countries— like #Argentina and #Brazil —play a pivotal role in forming economic programmes?

🎤 Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira @fernandaconforto.bsky.social (PhD, #InternationalHistory)
@gvagrad.bsky.social

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November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Call for abstracts, Seed Panel

Global Challenges, (G)local solutions: Contributions from the African Development Studies

Conv. by @tkontinen.bsky.social (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social), Shukrani Mbirigenda (Univ. of Dar es Salaam) & Nyamwaya Munthali (Univ. of Zambia)
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM