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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Oct 20
📣 The call for abstracts for our flagship event is out!

➡️ Choose from 44 Seed and 23 Harvest Panels

🕒 Deadline 21 December

🙏 Please submit and share widely!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Call for Abstracts - EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions?
29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 21 December 2025
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“True participation requires more than allocating additional time in project design—it should begin from a blank slate, with no pre-set agenda”

✍️ From our blog

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2265
Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)
By Marine Gauthier / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project A Personal Reckoning with Expertise My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Why do major inequality databases show different levels of inequality? 🤔 Our latest background note dives into the differences in the Poverty and Inequality Platform, WIID Companion, and World Inequality Database. Read more: go.unu.edu/GkgEa
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November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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📣 Latest news from @odid-qeh.bsky.social:

✍️ Blogs on COP and the UN;
💻 Online course on forced migration;
📉 Papers on ASEAN export pressure:

...and more.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🎙️ While the EU faces strategic competition, Africa is diversifying partnerships. What core shared interest binds the two continents today?

Our latest podcast explores our common dependence on multilateralism and how to move forward together.

Listen 👉 bit.ly/3X8CgwJ
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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iobua.bsky.social
🌊 Oceans, agriculture, and just transitions at #EADI2026:

🗓️ Deadline: 21 Dec 2025
📍 Antwerp | 29 June – 2 July 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RxoVmJI

@eadi.bsky.social
#JustTransition #DigitalAgriculture #OceanFutures #FoodSystems #EADI2026
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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✅ Check our latest newsletter, right here or in your inbox!

✅ The latest news, publications picks, calls, vacancies and opinion from us and our member community

📕 Special feature: @scnat.ch Guide for Global Research Partnerships

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November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
eadi.bsky.social
"Despite striving for equitable partnerships between majority and minority world researchers, in practice, power and knowledge asymmetries, massive differences in institutional capacities and dangers of co-option remain."

✍️ Our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402
The Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies
By Lyla Mehta The colonial roots of sustainability  Since the Brundtland Commission advanced the concept of sustainable development in 1987, a lively strand in Development Studies (DS) has eng…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
eadi.bsky.social
Call for abstracts, Seed Panel

EU Green Deal and Just Transition in the Global South

Conv. by @luismah.bsky.social (@cies-iscte.bsky.social), Gonzalo Vargas Forero (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota) & Jirayudh Sinthuphan (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
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EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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tninstitute.bsky.social
Is Germany sliding toward authoritarianism?

Germany’s unabated support for Israel’s genocide has been mirrored by a sweeping domestic crackdown on Palestine solidarity.

Our new report unpacks how this is reshaping the country and eroding wider civil liberties.

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November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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📢 Reminder: our international conference on the scramble for critical minerals starts tomorrow!

📅 26–27 Nov 2025 | Hybrid format | Registration required

🔎 Programme and details: ferdi.fr/evenements/c...
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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"Decolonising knowledge is political, and involves recognising and addressing power imbalances. So, understanding, amplifying and nourishing different forms of knowledge through different forms of development process seems to be a key dimension of decolonisation."

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2146
Learning and Unlearning: Sowing the Seeds of a Decolonising Mindset
By Peter Taylor / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Beginnings I grew up in an industrial town in the North of the United Kingdom, and as a child my experience of agriculture was …
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November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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This is how Spain’s external projection is distributed across the globe.
✍️ Manuel Gracia Santos & Blanca González
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/...
Figure 6. Geographical breakdown of Spain’s global presence, share of total (%). Source: authors’ own compilation, Elcano Global Presence Index.
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Get to know the 6 principles for more effective and equitable #research!

Principle 1️⃣: Set the agenda together to ensure relevance and shared ownership.

Learn more: globalresearch.scnat.ch/en/id/rRRgh
GRP Alliance recently published its Guide for Global Research Partnerships, which outlines six key principles. The first principle is "Set the agenda together to ensure relevance and shared ownership"
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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What is the future of global development?

An in-person conference at @manchester.ac.uk explores: new geopolitics; development architecture in polycrisis; and global development perspectives.

⏰ Deadline: 3 Dec

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November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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💡16 Days Activism Against GBV Series: Effective Gender Justice as a Pathway to Peace 💡

In this blog, Michelle Jarvis emphasizes that gender justice requires transforming justice processes and gender structures

Read the blog here: tinyurl.com/a2crmxe3
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16 Days Activism Against GBV Series | Effective Gender Justice as a Pathway to Peace - Bliss
This blog post is based on the keynote speech delivered by Michelle Jarvis at the Gender Justice in International Criminal Law Conference, held on 29–30 September 2025 in The Hague, the Netherlands. T...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Are we moving away from traditional aid or circling back to it? 🤔 Patterns of tied aid and inflated figures are resurfacing.

This blog unpacks what 'traditional aid' means, why it changed, and why current trends might feel more like backtracking.

👉 go.unu.edu/Q09zl
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November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"This is not technical language. It sounds like a political signal that the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment?
By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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2/...exalter une forme ou une autre de nationalisme (ex: le nationalisme haïtien). Vu qu'on doit citer des gens, j'irais simplement pour Mignolo, qui a endossé (par accident?) la tendance «Hindutva» du nationalisme indien. Ya plusieurs sources là-dessus, en vlà une: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1596
Contested development imaginaries: Hindutva and the co-optation of ‘decolonisation’
By Kalpana Wilson, Giti Chandra and Lata Narayanaswamy We live in a time where deeply embedded, historically entangled perceptions persist of a bifurcated world, made up of a civilised ‘developed’ …
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November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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COP30 made important strides towards the Global Goal on Adaptation, selecting the voluntary Belém Adaptation Indicators to help countries track adaptation progress. We hope that MPIs will be taken into account when establishing 'the level of population living in poverty' (8a).

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November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
eadi.bsky.social
"European colonial policies and interventions in forestry, agriculture and mining in the so-called ‘tropics’ were geared to extractivism and profits. Their social consequences were often devastating, accompanied by slavery, racialised discrimination, violence..."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402
The Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies
By Lyla Mehta The colonial roots of sustainability  Since the Brundtland Commission advanced the concept of sustainable development in 1987, a lively strand in Development Studies (DS) has eng…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
eadi.bsky.social
Did you ever have the chance to check this?

🔎 Here's the related blog if you prefer a quick overview:

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Call for abstracts, Seed Panel

Innovating Methods to Find (G)local Solutions for Global Challenges

Conv. by Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) & @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

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EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Reliable long-term data is important for understanding how jobs, incomes, & living conditions change over time. Today, DataFirst & our #SATIED programme launched two harmonised datasets built from three decades of Stats SA surveys.

Download the datasets here▶️ go.unu.edu/8JETo
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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✨ Third World Quarterly’s new Special Issue highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and disciplines, offering critical tools to build more just and plural futures.
Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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📝 The fall of El Fasher highlights the world's failure to protect the people of Sudan. Words alone do not suffice.

Read the full brief 👉 bit.ly/4pgAhCn
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM