Opinie & analyse

Today the development community marks the International Day of Non-Violence. Sharing the date with the birthday of prominent pacifist campaigner Mahatma Gandhi, campaigners from across the world get together to support education and public awareness on non-violence. Violence can take many forms, whether physical, psychological, exclusionary or something else. The causes behind it are just …

By Simone Filippini and Anthony Smith* On 16 July, fifteen leading economists argued in The Guardian that the ‘aid effectiveness’ craze is failing to tackle the root causes of poverty. They argue that randomized control trials, log frames, and tick-box results frameworks miss the issues that really need to be tackled, the issues that would contribute …

Between 1 and 14 September, NIMD External Advisor Will Derks visited three Democracy Schools (Lviv and Odessa in Ukraine and Gori in Georgia), where he discussed the difficult times democracy is facing, and the innovations that may help us answer these challenges. In Kyiv and Tbilisi he gave a talk about the status of the …