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Pakistan needs a new vision — an intra-elite war isn’t the answer
In this blog, originally published in Al Jazeera, post doctoral researcher Asha Amirali argues that the current political crisis in Pakistan pales in comparison to the crisis of imagining development as modernity and growth. Crisis is now passé in...
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Negotiating the Self: Researching Your Own While Being the Other
By Vibhor Mathur What is ‘home’ and what is the ‘field’, Farhana Sultana (2007) asks, when researching one’s home country as a scholar based in another country. I am an Indian, doing my doctoral research in the UK, studying...
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8 billion people: why trying to control the population is often futile – and harmful
In this blog, originally published in the Conversation, CDS member Dr Melanie Channon and Dr Jasmine Fledderojann of Lancaster University discuss population growth. The world’s population is expected to hit 8 billion people on November 15, according to the UN. Already...
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Countering Ignorance: Why Africa must be included in the National Curriculum
By Abi Glyn Until the age of 14, I thought Africa was a country. Kudos to me, by the time I went to university I had learned it was a continent. However, that’s about as far as my knowledge...
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SDGs failing to have meaningful impact, research warns
By Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun Sustainability has never been higher on the international agenda. But an international assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the 17 global goals used by governments, companies, and NGOs worldwide...
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A View from Dublin: Some random reflections
By Tony German A few hundred yards from the flat, where we’ve been living in Dublin for the last 6 months, is the famine memorial. It helps explain why experience of famine, migration, colonisation and conflict are important parts...
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War in Ukraine – What consequences for global development?
By James Copestake I have never tried to write anything about war before, and all words seem inadequate; but it feels wrong not to acknowledge somewhere on the CDS website what is currently unfolding in Ukraine. But why just Ukraine?...
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Why is structural conflict prevention so difficult to implement?
By Andrew Johnstone and Oliver Walton Conflict prevention has been a long-standing and high-profile international policy goal, and yet in practice international agencies have found it difficult to operationalise, with the structural dimension of conflict prevention proving especially challenging. Structural...
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Bangladesh: The Challenges of Inclusion
By Mathilde Maitrot and Joe Devine Reaching the ripe age of fifty, Bangladesh can look back with pride and look forward with cautious optimism. Since its independence, it has found a way to overcome huge challenges including decades of political...
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China will no longer build overseas coal power plants – what energy projects will it invest in instead?
By Yixian Sun Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced at the UN General Assembly that China “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad”. Chinese banks have already swung into gear. Three days after Xi’s speech, the Bank of China...
