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| Welcome to the fortnightly newsletter of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). |
| 2nd Issue May 2025 Editorial While we’re busy with our 50 anniversary final jubilee conference in Bonn, we are happy to share the call for panels for our upcoming general conference in Antwerp! From our blog we can recommend two new articles: one exploring the cuts in development aid from a post-development perspective, and the other exploring the dangers of artificial intelligence for development. Our working group on citizenship and civil society in development is being revamped, and we are pleased to welcome a new member to the EADI family. EADI/IOB 2026: Call for Panels Out!We are excited to announce that the call for panels for our upcoming general conference at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium, is out! The general conferences are our flagship events and THE place to be for the Development Studies community! With the title « Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? », the conference delves into the dynamics of sustainability, in all its dimensions, in the face of pressing global challenges. It reflects the profound dilemma faced by societies and communities worldwide in addressing issues at varying levels – from those demanding global collaboration to those necessitating local, context-specific action. Read more From our BlogThe End of Development Aid?As post-development thinkers have at times demanded the abolition of development aid, isn’t Trumps turn to nearly abolish it altogether capturing a left-wing demand? « The answer is no » argues Aram Ziai in this blog: « From the post-development perspective the abolition of development aid has been envisioned as part of a larger transformation of social and economic models. To leave global capitalism untouched and simply cut all aid is therefore not a progressive strategy. » But what would be? Read more From SDGs to GPTs: Trading Solidarity for AI Automation? »The politics embedded in AI directly collide with the foundational humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence », writes Ron Salaj in our latest blog: « In practice, AI systems are predominantly owned and governed by a handful of private Big Tech companies, whose business models often rely on surveillance, data extraction, and market-driven logic—structures fundamentally incompatible with humanitarian ethics. » Therefore, he calls for « Collective human intelligence, not artificial intelligence ». Read moreTo the blog overview Newcomers Welcome: Online Meeting on 19 JuneOur Working Group on Citizenship and Civil Society in Development has seen a change in convenors who call for new members, insights and ideas! While the focus on civil society in development research may have decreased in recent years, they argue that citizenship and civil society continue to be at the heart of academic debates when it concerns inclusive development, societal transformation, and equal societies. Read more Latest Open Access Articles in the EJDROur journal, the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR), offers the following latest open access articles: Do Perceptions of Rent-seeking Affect Farmers’ Attitude to Participating in Agricultural Input Support Programmes?Towards a Development and Development Studies of LiberationNo Development (Economics or Studies) Without DecolonisationRead moreThe EJDR is EADI’s Journal. Read it Now! New EADI Member: IDHUS Institute, BarcelonaWe are very happy to welcome the IDHUS Institute in Barcelona, Spain to the EADI family! IDHUS is a think tank dedicated to the study, analysis, and comprehensive understanding of humanity’s economic and geopolitical development. Its primary goal is to explore, anticipate, and interpret the directions in which society is evolving, addressing key challenges to the human future from a multidisciplinary and forward-looking perspective. It was founded with the purpose of bringing a new, global, and holistic vision to the issues that shape societal development. Read more Highlight: Healthy and Sustainable Food ConsupmtionTowards food policies that support healthy and sustainable consumptionThis report by IDDRI and others gathers analyses of demand-side food policies in 11 European countries. Each case study provides background information on the country’s progress towards better coordinated, thus integrated food policy and focuses on one to three examples of demand-side measures. The countries and policy examples have been selected to highlight positive examples from different European regions and to cover a wide range of approaches to integrated food policies and specific measures. Read more Thematic Focus: Peacebuilding & Post-War DevelopmentMine clearance, peacebuilding and development: interactions between sustainable development goals and infrastructure in Angola Peacebuilding – Eka Ikpe, Sarah Njeri – SOAS University of London SOAS Strengthening the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture – Transforming commitments into action Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation & Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) Political life after ethnic war Sarah Z. Daly – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) An Israeli-Palestinian Federation: An Alternative Approach to Peace Riccardo Bocco & Nigel Roberts – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)Gold Mining, Conflict, and Post-war Governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire World Develompent – Jeremy Allouche – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) The Role of FDI in Boosting Peacebuilding in Sudan via Promoting Youth Employability Economic Research Forum – Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate Resilience in Conflict‑Affected Settings? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme Jeremy Lind, Carolina Holland-Szyp, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler et al. – Institute of Development Studies (IDS)Premium Members Publication PicksWhat do civil society actors think about the human rights-based approach? Perspectives from CSOs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance? International Affairs – Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, Charlotte Gehrke – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Why property tax reforms fail: Lessons from Tanzania Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Lucas Katera, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) BMZ’S Support for Protected Areas Anna Sting, Kim Lücking, Marie-Sophie Heinelt et al. – German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)Green colonialism or green transformation? The equity implications of clean hydrogen trade Political Geography – Marie Dejonghe, Thijs Van de Graaf – Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS – UGent) Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below The Journal of Peasant Studies – Lídia Cabral, Matías Volonterio, Iva Peša et al. – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) “Those feminists haven’t come to us, they don’t know our reality”: Indian sex workers’ narratives of love and power Gender, Work & Organization – Andrea Cornwall, Sutapa Majumdar – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Read more about EADI MembersPolicy Publication Picks by Members‘Missing Girls’ and Reproductive Justice @Beijing+30 Lisa Eklund & Navtej Purewal – SOAS University of London SOAS The Fall of Assad in Syria Is Not the End of Captagon GIGA Focus Middle East – André Bank & Johannes Haupt – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) ECDPM’s contribution to the EU Open Public Consultation on the EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Strategic Autonomy meets Global Dependency. Instruments and Implications of the EU’s Raw Materials Policy with Third Countries Bernhard Tröster, Simela Papatheophilou, Karin Küblböck – Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE) Key considerations: Mpox in the Busia-Malaba border region linking Uganda and Kenya Hugh Lamarque, Hannah Brown – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) In Search of a Plan B: Like-Minded Internationalism and the Future of Global Development Policy Centre for the new South – Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel, Andy Sumner – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The BMZ Emergency Covid-19 Support Programme: Success Factors and Potential Improvements for Future Crisis Response Programmes Janis Schnell, Cornelia Römling, Wiebke Stein, Sabrina Disse, Amélie zu Eulenburg – German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)Picks from International Partner NetworksTrust in science for policy nexus International Science Council ISC Call for papers APISA 2025: Revisiting the Rules-Based Order (RBO) and Multi/Mini-Lateralism in the Indo-Pacific, 16-17 October, 2025 Deadline: 20 August 2025 – The Asian Political and International Studies Association APISA Cross-border research collaboration: EU comparative advantage – Focus on citizens and society EASSH – European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities EASSH Lawfare. La guerra por otros medios S. M. Romano – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Arturo Escobar. Hilos del pensamiento crítico A. Escobar – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO |
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| JobsCall for consultants – Corruption risks in climate financing in Kenya Deadline: 26 May 2025 – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Departmental Lecturer in Political Economy of Development Deadline: 30 May 2025 – Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID) Social Sciences Fellowships Deadline: 02 June 2025 – School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV) Departmental Lecturer in Development Studies Deadline: 09 June 2025 – Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID) Research Associate in Globalisation and Sustainable Global Value Chains Deadline: 13 June 2025 – Global Development Institute (GDI) Lecturer in Globalisation, Trade and Development Deadline: 16 June 2025 – Global Development Institute (GDI) Two Short-Term Visiting Researcher (m/f/diverse) Transformation of Political (Dis-)order Deadline: 22 June 2025 – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) See more job offers on the EADI websiteOpinionsPolycrisis and reasons for hope at the Humanitarian Leadership Conference: a practitioners’ perspective Carla Vitantonio – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) UK aid cuts: compromising lives, livelihoods and learning Alison Buckler, Keetie Roelen, Kwame Akyeampong et al. – The Centre for the Study of Global Development, The Open University (CSGD & OU) Geopolitical shifts and human mobility: Rethinking EU-Africa migration cooperation Amanda Bisong – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Climate justice and disability: Why including lived experience matters Roz Price, Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder, Lars Otto Naess – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Why United Nations Peacekeeping Matters Christoph Dworschak, Karina Mross – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Migration, Markets, and Minds: Why International Students Matter Mahtab Uddin – Global Development Institute (GDI) ‘Now the’Now they want us, now they don’t’: A critical discussion of migration to the UK from Africa Abiola George – Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)CallsCall for Papers: The Migrant Body in South-South Migrations: 15 December 2025 – 16 December 2025 Deadline: 02 June 2025 – Global Development Institute (GDI) Call for Papers: Current Perspectives on Populism in Authoritarian Regime Contexts, Freiburg, 25-26 September 2025 Deadline: 09 June 2025 – Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) Call for Papers: 11th Annual Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference: 10 October 2025 – 11 October 2025 Deadline: 30 June 2025 – International Security and Development Center gGmbH (ISDC) See more calls on the EADI WebsiteTrainingPhD course: “Development Research School course: Power, Justice and (De)coloniality in Development”: 02 September 2025 – 03 October 2025 Application deadline: 13 June 2025 – Swedish Development Research Network SweDev SLE Postgraduate Study Program – International Cooperation for Sustainable Development Application deadline: 30 June 2025 – The Centre for Rural Development, Humboldt University, Berlin SLE Master Programme: Urban Management and Development Application deadline: 01 July 2025 – Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) International Development MSc, online, part-time Application deadline: 01 September 2025 – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) See more courses and tranings on the EADI website Opinion continued How Trump’s tariffs could hit developing economies – even those not involved in the trade war Kunal Sen – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades The Conversation – Lorena Lombardozzi – SOAS University of London Uncovering Pathways to Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground (LFFU) Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID) Towards sustainable, healthy and accessible food: lessons from our European neighbours Charlie Brocard – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) |