Religious Inequalities in Development
How far can humanitarian and aid organisations balance their principles of neutrality and do no harm with the reality on the ground, when people face discrimination, marginalisation precisely because they belong a specific religious group or hold a particular set of beliefs? Could an increased...
Reflecting on the Sussex Development Lecture series theme of “the politics of hope”, this presentation will unpack the various uses of optimism in projects of global development. Focusing on the silencing and erasures of matters of racism in the field of education and international...
Older people are often forgotten or overlooked in the ‘money and savings’ conversation. Yet they are the most vulnerable to poverty. By bringing together diverse research, evidence and experience as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in an exciting panel discussion,...
Between the Lines podcast series
Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the last few decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Two-thirds of children in sub-Saharan Africa face all manners of hardship. These include poor living conditions, low educational outcomes,...
Political polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world—from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, and Kenya, to Poland, Turkey, and the United States. Drawing on his new co-edited volume (with Andrew O’Donohue), Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political...
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Global development challenges: towards a politics of hope. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/393597318183266/ Speaker Daniel Haberly, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sussex
As part of the Sussex Development Lecture series on Global development challenges: towards a politics of hope, IDS and the University of Sussex are delighted to welcome British Council UK Alumni Award Winners, to speak about their work on health and sustainable livelihoods, towards tackling...
Global climate strikes are calling for ‘system change, not climate change’, but what does this mean? Extreme weather, automation, political instability, inequality: these crises are connected in deep and often invisible ways. Hidden Paths welcomes us inside the troubled systems that we live...
The most recent issue of the flagship IDS publication the IDS Bulletin examines different perspectives on power in food systems, and the web of actors, relationships, activities, and institutions that play a major role in shaping them: The political economy of food. The Bulletin concludes that...
Religious Inequalities in Development
Religious inequalities refers to the ways in which individuals and groups suffer from systemic marginalisation, exclusion and, in extreme cases, genocide, on account of their beliefs and/or religious affiliation. Watch the...
Salil Shetty is a Senior Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights, Harvard University. He served as Secretary General for Amnesty International from 2010-2018. Before joining Amnesty, he was Director of the UN Millennium Campaign and the Chief Executive for ActionAid. In this talk, Salil...
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Self-determination (SD) disputes are some of the most common conflicts in the world. While the literature has mainly focused on the most violent conflicts, such as civil wars, recent studies have acknowledged the diversity of strategies adopted by groups within SD movements, and the need for...