Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
The book is launched on the eve of the 8th BRICS Summit. It offers a comprehensive comparative perspective on the increasingly significant development cooperation activities of the BRICS.
This seminar will explore how extreme events can be framed and analysed as natural experiments. The event delineates a before and after and affects people and places differentially – the hallmark of an experiment.
Event with Mariana Mazzucato on Rethinking Capitalism, hosted by The Schools of Business, Management and Economics and Global Studies (University of Sussex) and the Institute of Development Studies.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Dr Gauthier Marchais will be discussing his latest research at the second "Conversations about Conflict and Violence" being held this term. He presents the results of a recent survey of participation in armed groups in Eastern DRC.
This webinar will propose that urban CLTS does not mean strictly following processes and tools that have been used in rural areas but adhering to similar principles and designing an intervention based on the context of a specific town or city.
Join us for a Sussex Development Lecture with Mick Moore, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies on the topic of China and good governance.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
The first "Conversations about Conflict and Violence" this term will be led by Dr Caitriona Dowd who will briefly present her latest research on the dynamics of Islamic violence in sub-Saharan Africa, and then open the floor for indepth discussions on the topic.
Duncan Green, Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB and author of From Poverty to Power blog, delivers a Sussex Development Lecure based on his new book 'How Change Happens'.
A panel discussion at the Brighton Digital Festival on how society and digital technology can shape each other for the common good.
Launch event for The World Social Science Report 2016: Challenging Inequalities – Pathways to a Just World co-directed by Melissa Leach and John Gaventa.
STEPS Seminar by Kolya Abramsky on the class relations behind the energy sector, in an era of slogans around 'energy justice' and 'energy democracy'. Abramsky will also explore why the question of 'energy transition' is a central axis of class struggle, and the uncertainty around the possible...
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
In the run-up to the 8th BRICS Summit, hosted by India on 15-16 October 2016, the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development (CRPD) joined the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), the Observer Research Foundation, and other partners in the organization of...
