How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? Watch video below https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/275815646411792/ The welfare state in the UK was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- Sir Richard Jolly speaks to Kul Chandra Gautam about his book Global Citizen from Gulmi and his inspirational life journey from a remote village in Nepal to the highest ranks of the UN. Download transcription Listen
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFabtHoZrCY&feature=youtu.be Lecture was streamed live to the IDS Facebook page. This Sussex Development Lecture is set in the context of the...
The University of Sussex Master and PhD Open Evening takes place on Wednesday 21 November and provides an excellent opportunity to meet academics and current students and find out more about our Masters courses and research opportunities. Book your place online Wednesday 21 November...
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions. Since 2012 researchers from the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change team at IDS, have been working with members of the Participate network to bring perspectives and knowledge...
This photographic exhibition tells the story of changing lives and livelihoods in Lokichar, a small town in Turkana County, and surrounding villages that are at the centre of northern Kenya’s oil frontier. This exhibition will be opened by the Labour MP for Kemptown and member of the...
The Impact Initiative is excited to announce its participation in the ESRC Festival of Social Science. 17:00 Round Table Discussion: How can we improve life choices for women? Women and girls are often expected to fulfil roles that limit their ability to make strategic and empowering life...
–between the lines– podcast series
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? In this episode...
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/347562315804569/ In a recently published book “How Lives...
Millions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity, authoritarianism and fear. They reject both corporate capitalism and an elite political system over which they have no control, but they are sceptical of the traditional weapons of the left: seizing state power and...
Abstract Cities, towns and urban areas host a majority of 25 million global refugees. In case of the Syrian civil war, of the 5 million Syrians who have fled the country, 85 per cent settled in and around urban centres. Most Syrians reside in the region, with up to 2 million living in Lebanon...
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Several high-level UN reviews reassert that female peacekeepers enhance operational effectiveness of peacekeeping missions supporting the implementation of protection of civilian mandates. Yet how female uniformed peacekeepers are trained and deployed by Troop Contributing Countries is under...