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Weekly newsletter is out! Thursday June 3

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Thu 03 Jun 2021, 10:00

Webinar 24 June with SOAS Dept. of Politics - Is Development a Racist Discipline?

Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development (WICID) is committed to developing critical approaches to the study of international development as a discipline and as practice. As part of our series on Inequalities, we are organizing this panel to contribute to the ongoing interrogation of the racialized nature of international development and how we might challenge and reshape it. Ranging diversely, in terms of approaches, geographies and disciplines, we hope this intervention will help us understand the histories of oppression that underpin exclusions, discursive spaces that are colonized to reproduce them and the struggles that challenge and reshape international development and practice. This event is co-sponsored with SOAS Department of Politics. Space is limited to 100 attendees.

Speakers:

Olivia Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth

Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui, Cornell University

Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS University of London

Jenna Marshall, University of Kassel

Shirin Rai, WICID, University of Warwick (Chair)

Register here: https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fJMfmmS7RIadUOyScfyEsw

Tue 01 Jun 2021, 14:42

May 27 - weekly newsletter is out!

Read this week's news: https://mailchi.mp/cc99ebe7b854/wicid-newsletter-april-13378463

Thu 27 May 2021, 10:42

WICID Methods Lab Toolkit launch - Caring for Carers

Building Success In Development And Peacebuilding By Caring For The Carers

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About this event

Thursday June 17, 2021London 09-10:30am / Brussels 10-11:30am / Melbourne 18:00-19:30This event is the official launch of the WICID Methods Lab Toolkit Building Success in Development and Peacebuilding by Caring for the Carers published in April 2021. This event is co-sponsored by Monash Gender Peace and Security Centre.You are invited because you have participated or expressed an interest in the research which has informed this Toolkit, and/or because you a key player in the peacebuilding and broader international development sectors and critical to the success of addressing the challenges leading to and resulting from the marginalisation of employees with caring responsibilities. If you are unable to attend, please do circulate to your colleagues as well as anyone else you believe may have an interest in this topic.This Toolkit highlights the marginalisation of international organisation employees with caring responsibilities and the resultant individual, organisational and sectoral harms. Drawing from a global survey of peacebuilding and development practitioners, as well as other primary and secondary data, the Toolkit describes the extent of this marginalisation and subsequent harms, the exacerbating factors, and challenges to addressing them. In response, the Toolkit offers a theory of change demonstrating how caring for carers can both improve the working conditions of employees of international organisations as well as the effectiveness, inclusivity, and responsiveness of peace, security and justice interventions. It also offers a guide for employers on how to take the caring responsibilities of their employees into account when developing human resource policies and practices, designing working conditions, and planning interventions.

Join the event on Zoom here: https://monash.zoom.us/j/89629290330?pwd=YnZ5Z2lsRkZuS1J3VldzeU5LWFRxUT09

Download the toolkit here (free of charge): https://publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uwp/catalog/book/10

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Mon 24 May 2021, 10:26

The Coronavirus Crisis in India: An Online Public Meeting, 18 May 2-4pm (UK time) // 6:30-8:30pm (IST)

Register on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-coronavirus-crisis-in-india-an-online-public-meeting-tickets-154267196337

The Critical South Asia Group (CSAG) and SOAS Development Studies are co-hosting this open public meeting. How do we understand the current crisis brought about by the second wave of Covid-19 in India? What are the political, social and human costs of this catastrophe? What can be done to deal with this state of emergency and to begin the task of healing and rebuilding society? This Public Meeting will address these questions and more. Join us and add your voice!

Featured speakers include:

MURAD BANAJI (mathematician tracking India's Covid epidemic)

SUROJIT NUNDY (physician and public healthcare advocate)

VISHNU NARAYAN (journalist The Bihar Mail)

SURAJ TELANGE (doctoral student in Development Studies, SOAS)

NIKITA SONAWANE (lawyer, Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, Bhopal)

ABHAY MOHAN JHA (freelance journalist based in Bettiah, Bihar)

MEENA KANDASAMY (writer and activist)

BILAL ZAIDI (OurDemocracy.in)

RAVINDER KAUR (academic and author of Brand New Nation)

REKHA SURYA (Hindustani classical vocalist)

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Wed 12 May 2021, 10:43

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Webinar 24 June with SOAS Dept. of Politics - Is Development a Racist Discipline?

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WICID Methods Lab Toolkit launch - Caring for Carers

The Coronavirus Crisis in India: An Online Public Meeting, 18 May 2-4pm (UK time) // 6:30-8:30pm (IST)

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