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Book Launch Event- Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid

On 11 December 2025, The Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID), in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Democratisation (CSD), hosted a book launch event for Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid. The event featured a panel discussion with the book’s authors—Dr Shonali Banerjee (Warwick), Professor Anne-Meike Fechter (Sussex), and Dr Thabani Mutambasere (Edinburgh)—who explored how power and privilege operate within international aid and development. The discussion highlighted alternative, grassroots-led approaches to development and reflected on contemporary debates around decolonising aid.