Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
Deborah Bräutigam, Director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies will be speaking about her new book Will Africa Feed China?, which probes the activities behind headlines.
Dr Wendy Harcourt on her on-going research and engagement in the changing values and livelihoods of Bolsena, Italy in a theoretical and reflective exploration of environment, community and self.
Professor Keith M Lewin reviews progress and identifies the opportunities that will shape educational development through to 2030 and beyond under the new U.N. framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Alison Evans, Chief Commissioner at the Independent Commission for Aid Impact joins Rosalind Eyben to discuss the results agenda and its impact on the effectiveness on UKAid.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
This will not be a conventional seminar. Instead it will take the form of a conversation amongst colleagues, initiated by Robin Luckham, about Sustainable Development Goal No. 16 and the relevance to it of his new IDS Evidence Paper ‘Whose Security? Building Inclusive and Secure Societies...
The Lecture proposes ambitious new policies in a range of areas: technology, employment, social security, the sharing of capital, and taxation. It seeks to defend these proposals against the common arguments: that intervention will shrink the economy, that globalization makes action impossible,...
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
This seminar explains how extralegal groups in Liberia came about, how they persisted, and the threats and opportunities that they created for statebuilding in the aftermath of the civil war. It illuminates the political economy of post-conflict transitions and contributes to a growing...
On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly.
In this Sussex Development Lecture Rorden Wilkinson argues that without global institutions fit for purpose, we cannot hope for the kind of fine global economic management that can put an end to major crises or promote development-for-all.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
The Conflict, Violence and Development Cluster and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace are jointly hosting a Seminar on the Global Peace Index. In this seminar, Steve Killelea, Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), will describe the Pillars of Peace framework .
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Trade and trade policy can have serious implications for the incentives of individuals and governments to fight in fragile countries. This seminar will discuss some of the new research by the World Bank on how changes in imports and exports affect the risk and intensity of conflict.
15 years ago governments came together to agree a set of ambitious goals aimed at delivering education for all. The international community is now debating a new set of ‘post-2015’ education goals.
