On Friday, March 29, 2019, the RLC Campus Valdivia organises the transdisciplinary conference “Manfred Max Neef for the XXI Century”. Academics from the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) will pay an homage to Manfred Max-Neef, who received the Right Livelihood Award in 1983. After 25 years of holding the …
On January 14, 2019, the RLC Bonn hosted a work meeting with representatives from the Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA). Denis Mukwege, who received the Right Livelihood Award in 2013 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year, is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health …
On Monday, March 25, 2019, the Adult Education Center in Bonn will show the feature documentary on RLA Laureate Yacouba Sawadogo: “The Man Who Stopped the Desert”. Directed by Mark Dodd, it tells Yacouba’s incredible story in Burkina Faso, turning barren land into forest and demonstrating how farmers can regenerate …
From April 29 until May 3, 2019, the RLC Campus at Lund University organises the Civil Society and Sustainability Studies (CIVICSUS) Workshop, bringing together civil society actors and an interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators. This workshop is the final event in the yearlong Advanced Study group project CIVICSUS. …
RLC PhD student Alejandro Mora-Motta (Bonn and Valdivia) published an article on “Tree Plantations in Chile: Towards a more sustainable model”. The article addresses Chilean pine and eucalyptus plantations and the restructuring of forestry policy from extractivism towards a more sustainable model. Mora-Motta argues that the practical and discursive …
