Can principles of Community-led Development define the future of our sector? By introducing their recent publication, We Power our Own Change, authors in this seminar will reflect on the practices, insights, and the potential principles of Community-led Development and what it holds for the...
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in partnership with the University of Sussex, has been ranked first in the world for Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings for the ninth consecutive year. Together with the University of Sussex, we provide 29 postgraduate degrees...
We are delighted to invite you to attend the IDS launch of The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health (LCGGH) report. The rollback in gender rights and challenges to global health organisations around the world threatens to reverse decades of progress on global health. This...
Join us for this seminar that explores different kinds of power relationships that influence people’s access to resources, livelihood options and sustainability outcomes. This seminar looks at a case study of aquaculture production systems in northern Vietnam and the power relationships...
Each year we invite a prominent speaker on an issue relevant to international development to give the IDS Annual Lecture. These events are open to the public and available to attend in person and watch online. Past speakers include the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado...
The Sussex Development Lecture series is an opportunity to hear from leading global thinkers on development. It is jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the School of Global Studies , the Science Policy and Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for International Education...
The IDS Conflict, Violence and Development seminar series focuses on mass violent conflicts as well as every day forms of insecurity, looking at their relationship with poverty and development. It provides a forum to discuss the Institute's work in this area, as well as some exciting work on...
The Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development (CRPD) conducts and facilitates research on: the impact of the BRICS and other rapidly-changing and increasingly influential middle-income countries on low-income countries the need for the restructuring of global development...
Join us for the launch of ‘Food Fight’ – a book by food and nutrition expert Stuart Gillespie that shines a light on the evolution of our global food system from its origins in colonial plunder through the last fifty years of neoliberalism, before concluding with a set of actions to put...
The fight against the climate crisis is undoubtedly one of environmental justice, questioning entrenched systems of power that create social, political and economic inequities across the world. While this challenge is well known, rarely do we see these power systems questioned and successfully...
Hear Manuela Caiani, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore discuss how far-right political movements and ideas are spreading internationally. The transnationalisation of illiberal parties and social movements is increasingly evident in Europe. Not only do they...
In this Sussex Development Lecture, Professor Sonjah Stanley Niaah, discussed the reparation movement, including its achievements to date, the new opportunities for engagement on the issue and the outlook for the future against resistance from Governments of former colonial powers. Watch...
Join Dr. Sheila Tolentino Barbosa, from the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) as she talks about the Public Policy Catalogue which is a digital platform that compiles information on public policies implemented in Brazil in recent decades. This is to enable the systematisation and...
Humanitarian diplomacy is a broad landscape and possibly one with internal contradictions. For example, traditionally humanitarian agencies have sought to distance themselves from mediation and human rights activism. The concept of humanitarian diplomacy requires at least an end to these silos....
In the highly insecure borderlands of Somalia and North-Eastern Kenya, communities are driving their own governance and resilience, repairing social and physical damage in a context of violence and in the absence of formal state structures. This event explored insights from a new policy brief,...
Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iSMnq8ZMQ Sri Lanka is often perceived as an exemplary country where social welfare has been an integral component of state policy since its independence in 1948. Government provision of education and healthcare is free. There is no overt...