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| 1st Issue July 2026EditorialToday we are sending this newsletter right from our flagship conference at IOB Antwerpwhich started this Monday, and it is good to connect with the community, make new contacts, and collect new ideas and perspectives! If you’ve missed the live stream of Tuesday’s Dudley Seers Lecture with Joyeeta Gupta, we strongly recommend rewatching it whenever you find the time. Our blog has also been busy as usual with two new posts, and our thematic focus is on science and knowledge today.Rewatch: Dudley Seers Lecture with Joyeeta GuptaOn day two of the EADI/IOB Conference in Antwerp, Joyeeta Gupta from the University of Amsterdam gave the renowned Dudley Seers Lecture, following the tradition at EADI General Conferences. She explored why we need to move towards a different model of multilateral cooperation which is guided by universal and yet plural principles by which at least the majority is willing to live by. Watch here Read more about the Global Constitution Project and become an author here From our BlogBeyond Aid: The Political Economy of International Solidarity: Who Counts When Vulnerability Has No Strategic Value?In our latest blog, Nadia Molenaers continues the debate on the future of development cooperation and asks important, often overlooked questions: « How can solidarity be sustained in a world increasingly organised around interests, risks, and strategic competition? And how do political communities sustain commitments towards vulnerable populations from whom they derive little direct benefit? » Read more Towards a New Governance Architecture for Development CooperationIn this post, José Antonio Alonso analyses the current development cooperation governance structure and sketches out five possible transitions, models of international cooperation and governance: « Under these (difficult) conditions, the most viable alternative is to establish a set of minimum agreements enjoying the broadest possible degree of universality—ideally anchored within the United Nations—while allowing those countries willing to do so to undertake more demanding commitments. » Read moreTo the Blog Overview EJDR Early Career Initiative Prize AwardedOn the occasion of the ongoing EADI/IOB Conference, our journal, the European Journal of Development Research (EDJR) awarded the prize for the best paper submitted under the Early Career Researcher Initiative published during the period 2024 – 2025 to Dr. Asuka Yamamoto. Read more If you didn’t have the chance to attend the conference and the EJDR’s dedicated early career session on publishing in academic journals, you can watch the video that leads you through the supported submission process of the EJDR here Member Podcasts Humanitarian journalism in times of crisis: A Conversation with Jonathan Dumont SOAS University of London SOAS Social protection and food security and nutrition: A business case Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Beyond CBAM: How Europe and India can clean up steel European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) The Political Economy of Rwanda’s Rise Global Development Institute (GDI) Making politics safer – mitigating violence against women in politics in Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)Highlight: NGO-Academic CooperationA Tale of Two Worlds: Exploring the Range and Depth of NGO–Academic Collaboration in International Development Across EuropeOn the initiative of our Sub-Committee on Research, Practice and Policy Engagement, this open access paper in the Journal of International Development explores and catalogues a fuller picture of NGO–academic relations, including practitioner perspectives towards academia. It devises a typology to capture the types and purposes of, as well as barriers to, NGO–academic collaboration and finds that joint research conduct is rare Read the paper Thematic Focus: Science and Knowledge Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios One Earth – Laura M. Pereira, Matthew Ford Gibson, Jesse F. Abrams et al. – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) This is not research, this is activism”: Positionality, Palestine, and the limits of critical scholarship in German academia Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung – Dina Wahba – Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) Small research ecosystems in large international public policies: tracing an infrastructurally mediated pathway from CroRIS to Overton Quantitative Science Studies – Ljerka Luić, Maja Hoić – Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) Connections between science and care within public and global health research: the need for attention and action Journal of Global Health – Martyn Pickersgill, Cathy Abbott, Harry Campbell et al. – Centre of African Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh CAS Indigenous Political Ecology Progress in Environmental Geography – Ishfaq Hussain Malik, James D. Ford – Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI) Epistemic Hierarchies and the Marketisation of Africa Expertise: The Political Economy of Global Development Studies in British Academia Africa SpectrumArash Beidollahkhani – Global Development Institute (GDI) Nine changes needed to deliver a radical transformation in biodiversity measurement PNAS – William J. Sutherland, Neil D. Burgess, Scott V. Edwards, Gene E. Robinson – Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI) When science meets sovereignty: Pathogen digital sequence information between state control and commons-oriented access and benefit-sharing Computer Law & Security Review – Adam Strobeyko – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)Premium Members Publication Picks Evolving protected area governance in East Africa high mountains: implications for equitable conservation and development policy Sustainable Earth Reviews – Jon Geir Petursson, Patrick Byakagaba, Paul Vedeld – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) A Handbook for Value Chain Research – Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) War Comes Home: Conflict Exposure and Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia Workineh Ayenew, Andreas Kotsadam, Charlotte Ringdal, Espen Villanger – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Joint evaluation of the IDFC Climate Facility 25 June 2026 – Arnauld Bertrand, Jérémie None, Romane Gérardin et al – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Social Contracts and Environmental Change: Conceptualizing Interdependencies Society & Natural Resources – Ines Dombrowsky, Annabelle Houdret, Markus Loewe, Tobias Zumbraegel – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The Lobito corridor: Opportunities to catalyse investments for food security, regional trade and climate resilience Poorva Karkare, Francesco Rampa – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) No need to wait for reporting − Examining learning from results-based management practices in development cooperation World Development – Janet Vähämäki, Annika Hilgert, Kathrin Wolf, Martin Bruder – German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members Global Gateway: A bridge between development and geostrategic interests San Bilal – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Building Socio-ecological Just Landscapes: A Guide Ruth Westcott, Vicky Gerrard, Lidia Cabral et al. – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Digital War Participation Eva Johais – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Maintaining Peace in Aceh: Between Self-Determination and Transaction GIGA Focus Asia – Cornelius Haritz – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities at COP17: Turning participation into co-creation Landry, Elena Alvarez Blanes, Louisa Parks et al. – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) Effective policies to detect hidden wealth and mitigate illicit financial flows Finn Tarp – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Checkpoints, not territory: rethinking conflict Peer Schouten – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Financing social and environmental justice in the global South Paula Sevilla Núñez, Alexandre Apsan Frediani – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Towards a New Peace Process in Mozambique? Opportunities and Challenges of the Inclusive National Dialogue, one year on Manuel Barroso Sevillano – Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)Picks by International Partner Networks Call for nominations of experts to review the 2027 Global Sustainable Development Report Deadline: 31 July 2026 – International Science Council ISC Launch of a global mentorship scheme to support displaced scholars Apply as mentor by 14 August 2926 – International Science Council ISC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA): Research Talent is Europe’s Strategic Advantage Joint statement by 17 research organisations – European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities EASSH |
| Training IHE Delft Blue Partial Scholarships: for MSc Programme in Water and Sustainable Development Application deadline: 01 July 2026 – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Interdisciplinarity for Complex Water Problems, 28 September – 02 October 2026 Application deadline: 28 July 2026 – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Water Conflict, Cooperation and Diplomacy, 09-20 November 2026 Application Deadline: 09 October 2026 – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) See more courses and trainings on the EADI website Opinions Ten years on from the Brexit referendum: is the UK better off? William Chislett – Real Instituto Elcano A new global report brings biodiversity governance to a moment of choice Juliette Landry, Agnès Hallosserie – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) Why is Women’s Access to Land So Complex in Myanmar? TNI – Transnational Institute TNI Ebola, hantavirus… how eroding global health cooperation could threaten worse crises ahead Rachel M. Gisselquist, Andrea Vaccaro – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Warming up again? China & the Nordic-Baltics Centrum Balticum – Andreas B. Forsby – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) How gender-transformative teaching could help improve boys’ engagement and learning Matthew Heaton – School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV) Dismantling structural racism and injustice: an update on our progress Tom Mitchell – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Whether in India or the UK, working class bears the brunt of climate shocks Ira Deulgaonkar – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) The Stranded Scarab: Scarred and fading images of an envi ronmental worldview destroyed by Settler colonialism and industrial mining in the Northern Cape of South Africa Jan-Bart Gewald – African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) Calls Call for papers: N-AERUS Conference 2026 « The Role of Partnerships in Development: Knowledge, Power, and Urban Futures », 27–29 October 2026, hybrid and multilocational Deadline: 15 July 2026 – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Call for papers on political implications of COVID-19 Deadline: 30 July 2026 – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Call for Contributions: Technology, conflict and coloniality Deadline: 15 September 2026 – Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) Call for Papers: Conference ‘Meat and Mining’, 1-4 September 2027, Leiden, The Netherlands Deadline: 01 October 2026 – African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) Call for Paper: Topic Collection: Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures Deadline: 31 October 2026 – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) See more calls on the EADI Website Jobs Junior Researcher (f/m/d) Deadline: 05 July 2026 – International Security and Development Center gGmbH (ISDC) Research Assistant (f/m/diverse) Effectiveness of Development Policy Deadline: 06 July 2026 – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) See more jobs on the EADI website Opinion continued From Data to Decisions: Building Evidence-Based Digital Policies for Meaningful Connectivity Mindel van de Laar – UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT Teamwork brings unique energy: Ways forward for ‘Investing in Young Businesses in Africa’ Laure Blanchard-Brunac – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Africa and the new global order: diversified partnerships and greater leverage Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Lessons for nuclear proliferation from the myth of Orpheus The Loop – Leonardo Bandarra – Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) |