EADI e-newsletter #5/2005
December 16, 2005.
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
IN THIS ISSUE:
*NEWS FROM EADI
*NEWS FROM ICCDA AND OTHER NETWORKS
*NEWS FROM MEMBERS AND PARTNERS
*EDUCATION AND TRAINING
*VACANCIES
*PUBLICATIONS
*CONTACT INFORMATION
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NEWS FROM EADI
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*First announcement: EADI Seminar: Promoting Coherence. Tools, mechanism and ways to put coherence into practice.
Organised by ÖFSE and VIDC and in co-operation with EADI, the seminar will examine the question of how to reach a coherent development policy in Europe on 31 March 2006 in Vienna. Details will be posted on the EADI Website in due course.
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*Devcareers - Vacancies in international co-operation
EADI has launched DevCareers - This new service of EADI gives job seekers direct connection to potential employers in international co-operation. See eadi.org/devcareers
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*11th EADI General Conference - More Session reports
600 development researchers, practitioners and representatives from policy and NGOs met from 21 to 24 September in Bonn at EADI's General Conference discussing the linkages between insecurity and development. All speeches of the plenary sessions and a wealth of papers presented in the parallel sessions can be visited at www.eadi.org/gc2005. A conference report is being prepared.
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*European Journal of Development Research:
Volume 17 Number 4/December, 2005 of The European Journal of Development Research is now available. See www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml for the abstracts. Join as a member of EADI and receive the EJDR for free. See www.eadi.org detail_page.phtml?page=membership
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*The European Journal of Development Research Prize 2006: European Union and Africa- Towards a New Relationship?
What can Europe do for Africa? What can Africa do for itself? We invite submissions for the EJDR Prize to write on the subject "The European Union and Africa- Towards a New Relationship?" The submissions can cover any aspect of European-African relationships, from any perspective (political, economic, sociological). See www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml
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NEWS FROM ICCDA AND OTHER NETWORKS
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*The CODESRIA General Assembly with the theme "Rethinking African Development: Beyond impasse, towards alternatives" took place in Maputo from 6 to 10 December. The research community was called upon to carry its critique of post-independence Africa development and the mode of insertion of Africa into the global system one step further by presenting detailed and holistic alternatives. A wealth of papers presented at the six plenary and twenty-four parallel sessions are available at
www.codesria.org/Links/conferences/general_assembly11/general_assembly05.htm
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*OSSREA chose "International Aid, Trade and Development in Africa: The Search for a Development Paradigm" as the conference theme of its eighth congress, held in Addis Ababa from 21 to 23 November. You can find more information on the Congress website:
www.ossrea.net/congress/index.html
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*Failed States in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes, Consequences and Potential Interventions
A documentation of the panel organised by the Network for International Development and Co-operation (NIDECO) held at EADI's General Conference can be visited at www.nideco.ethz.ch/news/past_events/eadi_2005
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*GEMDEV (Groupement d'Interêt Scientifique pour l'Etude de la Monidalisation et du Développement) infos December 2005:
See www.gemdev.org/infgemdev/rencontres.php
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NEWS FROM MEMBERS AND PARTNERS
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*Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Stumbling-Block of the "Doha- Round"?
New ZEF Policy Brief No 4, available at: www.zef.de
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*Mobilizing Knowledge to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
This report of The Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council is downloadable at: www.rawoo.nl/main-6b2.html
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*What matters in a communication strategy? InBrief by ECDPM
This InBrief No 11 overviews elements to consider in developing an organisational communication strategy and is aimed at development workers, researchers and policymakers. See www.ecdpm.org/Web_ECDPM/Web/Content/Navigation.nsf/index2
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*Call for Papers: WIDER Conference on Aid: Principles, Policies and Performance
Helsinki, Finland, 16-17 June 2006. See www.wider.unu.edu. Deadline: 28 March 2006.
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*The Indian Ocean Tsunami - one year on: ODI's Natural Disasters Portal
This portal brings together ODI's research results at www.odi.org.uk/disasters_portal/index.html
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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*Euforic training workshop: introducing blogs, newsfeeds and rss
Maastricht: 19 and 20 January, 2006. See www.euforic.org/detail_page.phtml
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*New seminar programme of cinfo
The Center for Information, Advice and Training - Professions relating to International Cooperation has published its new seminar programme for 2006. See www.cinfo.ch/index_e.html
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*Courses on health related issues
offered by the Royal Tropical Institute. See eadi.org/database/database/
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*Short courses by the Institute of Social Studies
"Rational Choice Approaches to Conflict", "Understanding and Managing Reproductive Health" are two of the short courses offered to mid-career professionals at www.iss.nl
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*Human Rights, Development and Social Justice: New Master specialisation
The Institute for Social Studies offers two new Master specialisations. See www.iss.nl
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*Development Studies, Poverty, Environment and Collective Action
Postgraduate Programme offered by Noragric. See eadi.org/database/database/
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devtrain online: EADI training database
Search devtrain online, the EADI Training Database giving access to post- and undergraduate programmes and training courses with a focus on development issues from 28 European countries. See www.devtrain.org
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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Director of the Refugee Studies Centre
Organisation: Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK
Closing date: 21 February 2006
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Health Programme Officer
Organisation: Aga Khan Foundation, Europe
Closing date: 31 December 2005
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Research Programme Consortium Manager
Organisation: Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
Closing date: 11 January 2006
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Programme Co-ordinator
Organisation: Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
Closing date: 5th January 2006
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Senior Officer, Partnership and Business Development
Organisation: The International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Closing date: 4 January 2006
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*CLACSO is looking for a new Executive Secretary who will need to be officially accepted by the General Assembly which is going to be held from 20 to 25 of August 2006 in Rio de Janeiro. See:
www.clacso.org/wwwclacso/espanol/html/fprincipal.html
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*Internships at the EADI Secretariat
See www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml
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*Travel scholarships for researchers in the Nordic countries
from the Nordic Africa Institute. See www.nai.uu.se
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PUBLICATIONS
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*Sucessful Communicatio: A Toolkit for Researchers and Civil Society Organisations
at www.odi.org.uk/publications/toolkit2.html
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*Research makes sense
The yearbook of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is available at www.sida.se
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*Peace Research Database
The Peace Research Information Unit Bonn, a national and international peace and conflict research transfer center maintains a online database on peace research at www.priub.org/peace_research_index.html
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*Alliance of Civilizations: International Security and Cosmopolitan Democracy
The working paper published by FRIDE and the ICEI is available at www.fride.org
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*Capability building for catching up
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation's Industrial Development Report 2005 was released. Information available at www.unido.org/doc/5156
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