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First "Innovating Methods" Podcast Out"

Season 3, Episode 4 Out!

Black Radical Politics and Pan-Africanism

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New Video and Podcast Out

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

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Three blog posts and two podcasts published

New Open Access Book Out: Plurinationality and Epistemic Justice

The Challenges of Intercultural Education in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Events & Workshops

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21 May 2025

Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era, Workshop, Bonn, 21 May 2025

Call for expressions of interest as participants and inputs - EADI Global Crises & Development Group & German Institue of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Submit by 14 February 2025 (We anticipate a workshop of maximum 30 people)

Time: 21 May, 2025, 09.30-12.30 CET

Venue: German Institute of…

12 June 2025

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

Call for Abstracts: Submit and register by 31 March

The international symposium organized by the Department of Global and Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and the…

06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

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Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

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29 June 2026

Save the Date: 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)…

Blog

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Development
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The EU’s Deforestation Regulation: Chances for Inclusive Sustainable Forest and Agricultural Commodity Chains

29 April 2025 - Marcelo Inacio da Cunha, George T. Mudimu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

It is undisputable that addressing deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change requires a collectively effort globally. Although the private sector – as a key element of forest and…

Feeling the Colonial: Affective Decolonisation in Development Studies Classrooms

22 April 2025 - Carla Maria Friederike Diem - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

“I hope for a world where International Development Studies cease to exist.” was the first line of my motivation letter to the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A provocation, yes – but also a belief. A…

Global and International Development Against all Inequalities

15 April 2025 - Alessandra Mezzadri - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Since its inception after World War II, Development Studies has been deeply intertwined with the socio-economic transformation of formerly colonized countries. Initially, the discipline was tasked…

Is the Green Transition an Opportunity for Structural Industry Transformation in the Global South?

08 April 2025 - Jiayi Wang, Ragdad Cani Miranti - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Across the world, countries are facing a critical juncture in their structural transformation. In the Global South, the intensifying climate is leaving countries vulnerable to significant economic…

The New Washington Dissensus: Trump’s Five Principles for Development Cooperation

03 April 2025 - Andy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

The Trump administration has set out to radically reshape U.S. foreign aid, pushing the “America First” agenda to ensure every dollar spent abroad serves American interests. The latest indication…

Member Publications

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Open Access
EADI members

Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) toolkit

22 April 2025 - Jennifer Steeves Nina Schoonman Anshuman Karol et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework. The SECURe framework is a structured…

(Un)Settling Place. Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

07 April 2025 - Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara González (eds.) - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

This book recentralizes the 'out-of-the-way' places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. People who are “on the move” often inhabit places that are…

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

07 April 2025 - Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi (eds.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a…

Development Actors and their Indigenous Other. Knowledge Production and Negotiation in the Upper Baram (Malaysia)

28 February 2025 - Agathe Le Vaslot - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of development projects articulated towards the ‘empowerment’ of so-called beneficiaries, particularly in contexts affecting indigenous peoples’…

Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships

27 February 2025 - L.M. Lundsgaard-Hansen, Z. Chi Aye, M. Douangphachanh et al - Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) (KFPE)

This report provides recommendations for funding institutions to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships

International Organizations and the Cold War: Competition, Cooperation, and Convergence

25 February 2025 - Sandrine Kott, Eva-Maria Muschik & Elisabeth Roehrlich - Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna

The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and…

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