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06 November 2025

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

International Security and Development Center (ISCC), Berlin, Register by 05 October!
Every year, the EADI Research Communications Working Group organizes a workshop for communicators working in the field of development. The goal of…
14 November 2025

Activating Gender Justice: From Research to Collective Praxis for Social Change, 13 - 14 November 2025, Lisbon, Portugal 

Join us for a transformative one-and-a-half-day event in Universidade de Lisboa's Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, that brings together…

28 November 2025

Global Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: What Ground Rules for Partnership in a Fragmented World? Online, 28 November 2025

BISA/EADI Roundtable, 1-2.30pm UK time

Global development cooperation faces an era of profound uncertainty. Declining aid budgets, rising nationalism, and geopolitical rivalry are eroding…

04 December 2025

‘(Re-)establishing Political Economy in Development Studies, 04-05 December 2025, Manchester

Call for Workshop Papers: submit by 20 September 2025
Funded by EADI and the Development Studies Association (DSA), linked to the joint EADI/DSA Politics and Political Economy of Economic Transformation…
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)…

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How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons

Laura Camfield - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In a new reflection…

The Gradual Change of Multilateralism and Development Cooperation

Lars Engberg-Pedersen - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In a recent piece on this blog, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner take up the important question of how the present situation of international cooperation and global development should be described.…

Transforming the International Development Cooperation System – Mission Impossible?

European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Professor Aram Ziai is an academic who has been writing on Post-Development for over 20 years. His work is all centred around decolonising the sector – and on how colonial injustices are still…

Legitimacy at the Core: Transformative Green Industrial Policy for a Just Mineral Extraction

Anabel Marin, Santiago Cunial - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The global race for minerals is accelerating. Minerals like lithium, copper, and nickel are increasingly treated as the “new oil” of the energy transition and other global agendas. From critical…

Development Cooperation at a Tipping Point: How do Policy Norms Break?

Stephan Klingebiel, Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The global system of development cooperation is entering uncertain territory. For decades, multilateralism and global solidarity shaped the expectations of how global development policy should be…

Member Publications

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A Bit Too Simple: Narratives of Development, Sustainability and Climate Change

Mette Fog Olwig - Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University (RUC)
Narratives like those portraying development workers as heroes and local populations as victims needing to be saved from their own unsustainable practices have led to problematic policies and…

Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power

Felicia Anthonio, Tony Roberts (eds) - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African…

Justice in Global Economic Governance: Normative and Empirical Perspectives on Promoting Fairer Globalisation

Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Eszter Kollar - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
This book studies global economic governance using an innovative structure to juxtapose normative arguments with empirical analysis. Chapters investigate the most important areas of global economic…

Syria in Transition. Mapping the local and transnational actors shaping politics in Syria.

Hetav Rojan - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s journey from jihadist commander to self-crowned president in Damascus is a fitting vignette for the volatility of Syrian politics. It is a reminder that in Syria today, the seemingly…

Strengthening social protection systems in complex humanitarian settings. Framework and policy guidebook

Sami Husa, Patricia Justino & Rodrigo Oliveira - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
This guidebook offers a practical roadmap for how integrated, inclusive, and shock-responsive social protection systems can strengthen resilience in fragile and crisis-affected settings. Drawing on…

Ideologically Motivated Sexual Grooming

Mariz Tadros, Grant Sinnamon, Abira Ashfaq et al. - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Across diverse societies, coercion often hides behind cultural norms, religious expectations, legal systems, and gendered power structures. This book exposes a disturbing but overlooked form of abuse:…

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Research Assistant (f/m/diverse), Department “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems”

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German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Wanted: Managing editor

Application Deadline: 02 November 2025
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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Wanted: Philanthropy manager

Application Deadline: 02 November 2025
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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PhD on Youth Movements, Climate Change and Development

Deadline: 09 November 2025
Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University (RUC)
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Business Development Officer, Department: Research and Knowledge Exchange Directorate

Application Deadline: 09 November 2025
SOAS University of London SOAS
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Calls

Governing Planetary Defense: Politics, Ethics, Law in the Global Response to an Asteroid Threat

Deadline for submissions: October 2025
Institute of International Relations (IIR)
Deadline for submissions: October 2025
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Call for participation at the Conference: Political Power, Resistance, and the (Im)possibility of Alliances

09 December 2025
Centre of International Relations (CIR)
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Call for Manuscript: Journal of Development Effectiveness: For a Special Issue on Rigorously measuring the effects of peacebuilding approaches

Submission Deadline: 31 October 2025
Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo (REEDES) Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo (REEDES)
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Call for Papers: Measuring Peacebuilding Effects

Deadline: 31 October 2025
International Security and Development Center gGmbH (ISDC)
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Call for Papers: Governing Planetary Defense: Politics, Ethics, Law in the Global Response to an Asteroid Threat

Submission Deadline: October 2025
Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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Publications

Rethinking exploitation and control in migrant labour regimes: The case of Filipino workers in a Malaysian oil palm plantation

Agriculture and Human Values
Carlo John B. Arceo, Caroline Hambloch & Helena Pérez Niño - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)  |  Department of Geography, University of Bonn (GIUB)
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Ethiopia: A Personal Journey, 1983-2025 and Proposals for the Future Ireland-Africa Partnership

Tom Arnold - Development Studies Association Ireland DSAI
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Reimagining the International: Surveying Foreign Information Manipulation Landscapes of Power During the COVID-19 Pandemics

Ondřej Ditrych, Jakub Eberle, Linda Monsees et al. - Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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Alarming and Stimulating Appeals by Nobel Prize Winners and Nuclear Experts to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear War

Miroslav Tuma - Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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Emancipatory Dimensions of In:Security – Coping with the Challenges of War in Ukraine

Míla O'Sullivan, Nadja Douglas, Yuliya Yurchuk et al. - Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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