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Global association exploring human development & the capability approach through research, policy, and practice. 🌍 #HDCA
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AI technology may be shifting risks from actors in front of the camera to everyone else, whether through creation of violent and illegal pornography or through the spread of sexually explicit “deepfakes”
AI is upending the porn industry
Synthetic smut will soon be flooding the internet, bringing new opportunities and perils
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🌟 HDCA Thematic Group: Human Security 🌟

“The world can never be at peace unless people have security in their daily lives. Future conflicts may often be within nations rather than between them,” predicted the UN Human Development Report in 1994.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📚 We’re delighted to share a new article in the Journal of Human Development & Capabilities:

“Forming an Eco-social Capability in the South African Higher Education Space” by Melanie Walker & Fenella Somerville.

#CapabilityApproach #HigherEd #ClimateJustice

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Forming an Eco-social Capability in the South African Higher Education Space
Our responses to urgent ecological challenges will shape justice into the future. Given that university graduates will become leaders in politics, the professions and businesses, the paper addresse...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢 HDCA #HealthAndDisability Webinar – Dec 11
Join us for an #EarlyCareerResearch webinar on health, disability, and the #CapabilityApproach!

🕑 Dec 11, 2:00–3:30 PM CET | 8:00–9:30 AM EST | 1:00–2:30 PM UTC

💬 15-min talks + 5-min discussion + 10-min Q&A

Don’t miss it!
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Webinar: HDCA Health & Disability Early-Career Research
Date & Time: December 11, 2:00–3:30 PM CET (8:00–9:30 AM EST | 1:00–2:30 PM UTC) This webinar brings together early-career [...]
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December 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🌍 New guest editorial in the JHDCA!

“Education, Sustainability & Social Justice”

This intro sets up our upcoming special issue, focusing on:
• The role of education + humanitarian crises
• Expanding opportunities for global South scholars
• Linking sustainability, capabilities & epistemic justice
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🌟 HDCA Thematic Group: Technology, Innovation & Design 🌟

We explore how #tech + #SocialInnovations shape people’s real freedoms. Some tools empower; others limit or exclude. Understanding these impacts means looking at design, power, values, and context.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌍 Join us on 9 Dec for the #lecture “Contesting Corporate Responsibility from the Margins.”

🕚 11:00–12:30 UTC

Featuring Prof. Rajiv Maher (EGADE Business School & Copenhagen Business School), sharing insights from co-produced #research with #Indigenous and #MarginalizedCommunities.
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌱 How the CA can transform #education?

Check out the Capability and Education Network (CAEN), a vibrant HDCA thematic group connecting scholars & practitioners since 2003.

CAEN is open to everyone and is a welcoming space to share ideas and explore new directions in capability-informed education.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue

Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures
We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.

🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
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HDCA: For Authors
JHDC August 2027 Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures: Integrating Emerging Approaches of the Economy [...]
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November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🚀 Is #AI enough to transform #education?

A new #PolicyForum shows why successful EdTech needs strong systems, teacher support, and local adaptation.

With lessons from Tiger Leap, OLPC & Plan Ceibal, it charts how AI can truly boost #learning and #equity.

AI Can Revolutionise Education but Technology Is Not Enough: Human Development Meets Cultural Evolution
Artificial Intelligence could dramatically boost educational outcomes and close gaps – but only if policymakers take a human-centred, systems-level approach to AI integration. Cultural evolution, t...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🌍 Can #AI help people not just survive but thrive in a changing #climate?

Join our policy forum on AI in Adaptive #SocialProtection

Learn how AI can anticipate shocks, deliver support faster, and build long-term resilience, while addressing risks like bias and exclusion.

Artificial Intelligence in Adaptive Social Protection: Expanding Human Capabilities for Climate Resilience
Climate change is amplifying human vulnerability and exposing gaps in social protection systems, particularly where they remain nascent or fragmented. Adaptive Social Protection (ASP), which integr...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📣 On 24 Nov, join us for the launch of Youth Voice and Participatory Arts in Global Development, a powerful new book by The May Group

The book explores how #participatory #arts can amplify #youth voices and support more #inclusive #development.
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue

Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures
We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.

🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
🔗 More info:
HDCA: For Authors
JHDC August 2027 Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures: Integrating Emerging Approaches of the Economy [...]
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November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🌱 How can we better understand and expand the real freedoms of children and young people?

The HDCA Children and Youth Capabilities Thematic Group is an interdisciplinary network exploring human development through the capability approach.

#HumanDevelopment #Children #Youth
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🤖 How can #AI serve human flourishing, not just efficiency?

A new open access #PolicyForum, “Navigating AI with a #HumanDevelopment Compass”, explores how AI can expand capabilities, agency & wellbeing across the life course.

By Lengfelder, Tapia & Biggeri.

Navigating AI with a Human Development Compass – Shaping Tomorrow’s Capabilities
This Policy Forum examines the intersections of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Development (HD) through the lens of the capabilities approach. As AI technologies increasingly permeate all s...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Early-career researcher? 🌍 Working on the capabilities approach but missing mentorship or a community? The HDCA Mentorship Program (ECRPN) is here to connect you with guidance, support, and collaboration across the globe!

Learn more: hd-ca.org/thematic_gro...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why do women in the Middle East & North Africa have more education but fewer jobs? 🤔

A new study on Tunisia uses the #CapabilityApproach to rethink this “gender paradox”, showing it’s really about capability deprivation, not lack of education

By Çuhadar, Kawamura & Jawad

Can Capability-based Education and Social Policy Help Resolve the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Paradox? A Case Study of Tunisia
This study aims to re-evaluate the MENA gender paradox, where women's participation in employment is low despite their higher access to education. Arguments about the inclusiveness of education sug...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
How can we align AI with Human Development instead of working against it? 🌍

In a new policy forum, Mario Biggeri & Andrea Simoncini explore how international coordination and supranational regulation can help ensure AI expands human agency and capabilities, not limits them.

Agency and the Role of International Regulation: Reconciling AI Technologies and Human Development
One decisive action towards reconciling Artificial Inteligence (AI) and Human Development (HD) worldwide concerns the reorientation of directionality and the establishment of a set of principles fo...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🌱 Are you an #EarlyCareer professional passionate about #HumanDevelopment and #CapabilitiesApproach?

Join the Early Career Researchers & Practitioners Network (ECRPN), a welcoming HDCA community that supports your growth from student to professional.

We connect, collaborate, and learn together 💬✨
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue

Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures
We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.

🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
🔗 More info:
HDCA: For Authors
JHDC August 2027 Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond Development Paradigms for Sustainable Futures: Integrating Emerging Approaches of the Economy [...]
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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🌍 Would you like to host the next HDCA Conference?

Hosting this global event is a unique chance to bring visibility, energy & collaboration to your institution with full support from HDCA.

Join this Webinar and learn more!

🗓️ Thu Oct 30 | 14:00–15:30 UTC
💻 Zoom | 📩 https://rebrand.ly/8ps81pt
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌎 ¡Únete a la Red Latinoamericana de HDCA!

¿Te interesa el desarrollo humano, la justicia social y el enfoque de capacidades en América Latina? HDCA-LA es una comunidad multidisciplinaria vibrante que conecta a investigadoras e investigadores de toda la región
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October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🕊️ Webinar: Everyday Peacebuilding through Democratic Political Education

Join the HDCA Ethics & Development Thematic Group for a discussion of Stephen Esquith’s new book

📅 Wed, Oct 29, 2025 | 12:00–13:30 UTC
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🌍 Webinar: Transforming Rehabilitation Through the Capability Approach

1 in 3 people globally live with a condition that could benefit from rehabilitation, but services remain limited, especially in LMICs.

📅 Tue, Oct 28, 2025 | 14:30–16:00 UTC
💻 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Transforming Rehabilitation Through the Capability Approach. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Transforming Rehabilitation Through the Capability Approach. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🧵 New #OpenAccess article

The authors examine how Tonga women artists in Zimbabwe use art and storytelling to reclaim heritage, voice, and cultural identity through participatory research and the development of narrative capability.

📖 Full article:
Weaving Heritage: The Narrative Capabilities and Herstories of Tonga Women
This paper is positioned within critical African heritage studies and looks into the process of storytelling with the Tonga artist community in Zimbabwe, for whom heritage has long been a contested...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM