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Events & Workshops

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Amílcar Cabral painting in Bafatá by Jcornelius on Wikimedia

22 April 2026

Virtual Dialogue- Amílcar Cabral at 100 Liberation and Legacy, 22 April 2026

16.00 CEST

Amílcar Cabral, a leading figure in the struggle against colonialism and an unavoidable intellectual force in the fight for independence in…

13 May 2026

Virtual Dialogue - Historical Trauma and Its Development Implications Across Generations, 13 May 2026

15.00 CEST

Historical trauma—arising from experiences such as colonialism, slavery, violent conflict, and systemic dispossession—can have profound and lasting…

19 May 2026

EADI General Assembly, 19 May 2026

Online,13.00-16.00 CEST

All EADI institutional and individual members are invited to attend the online assembly. Invitations have been sent by email. Please register here…

28 May 2026

Virtual Dialogue - Green Economy and Rural Livelihoods in Africa: Policies and Implementation Pathways, 28 May 2026

16.00 CEST

This webinar contributes to ongoing discussions on “Green Economy and Rural Livelihoods in Africa: Policies and Implementation Pathways.” It aims to…

10 June 2026

Virtual Dialogue - Beyond Technical Solutions: Water Governance, Power, and Social–Ecological Change, 10 June 2026

16.00 CEST

Water challenges are often framed as technical problems of infrastructure, scarcity, or management. This webinar brings together leading scholars to…

10 June 2026

Transformative Skills: Reframing Competence Development in Higher Education. Workshop (Online) 10 June 2026, 14:00 CET

Application deadline: 15 March 2026

Joint Workshop with the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - University of Applied Sciences

29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

30 June 2026

Dudley Seers Lecture - Sharing our Earth: Contributing to the Writing of a Global Constitution, 30 June, 19:30 CEST

With Joyeeta Gupta, University of Amsterdam

Our economy and society depend on the ability of the Earth to sustain life. However, we are overusing and abusing these resources. Air pollution is…

Blog

Debating
Development
Research

The Double Legitimacy Crisis of the Old Aid Order: Four Scenarios for Development Cooperation and their Plausibility

31 March 2026 - Nadia Molenaers - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Development cooperation is not simply facing another cyclical debate about effectiveness. It is facing something deeper: a crisis of the very roles through which it has historically been justified.…

Unlocking the Benefits from Conservation? Indigenous Youth and Entrepreneurship in Drakensberg Park

24 February 2026 - Jabulile Happyness Mzimela, Inocent Moyo - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

The Natal Colonial government initiated the establishment of protected areas in the Drakensberg in 1903, drawing on Eurocentric conservation models that sidelined Indigenous knowledge systems and…

Member Publications

Highlight Publications
Open Access
EADI members

Where’s the dēmos in Democracy? Building Democratic Futures and Resisting Autocracy

02 April 2026 - Niranjan Nampoothiri, Miguel Loureiro, Steve Metcalfe et al. - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Democracy is in crisis. Anti-democratic politicians and anti-rights movements are becoming more popular. Simultaneously, growing inequality around the world – a product of neoliberal capitalist…

Legal Mobilization. Assessing the Potential and Limits of Law-based Civic Advocacy

09 March 2026 - Jeff Handmaker - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

This book discusses the strategic potential of law-based, civic-led advocacy and surveys how legal mobilization can serve as a form of counterpower to state and corporate-led lawfare. It covers a…

Advancing Racial Equity in Development Studies

26 March 2026 - Madhuri Kamtam, Laura Camfield - Development Studies Association (DSA)

This report offers the clearest, most honest account of what racially minoritised early career researchers experience within Development Studies today with clarity about where our practice misses the…

How the Taliban Regained Power in Afghanistan

09 March 2026 - Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Jan Werner Mathiasen, Lars Erslev Andersen et al. - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

This book examines how the Taliban were able to regain power in Afghanistan in 2021, some 20 years after the US intervention. It is the result of a thorough review of research and policy publications…

Radical Educators in Grassroot Contexts

09 March 2026 - Mayssoun Sukarieh - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

This book presents a collection of conversations with educators and activists from around the world, who are engaged with practicing and thinking about different forms of radical or alternative…

Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia: We Were Never Global

23 February 2026 - Adam Moe Fejerskov , Lars Engberg-Pedersen , Meron Zeleke et al. - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

This book examines the complex subject of violence against women (VAW), moving beyond ways of thinking that privilege Western positions and subordinate local perspectives. Chapters analyse the…

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