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  • From June 10 to 15, scientists, practitioners and PhD students from 18 different countries came together at the RLC Campus Bonn to present their work on sustainable agriculture in rural areas of the Global South. Among others, Dr. Lee HeHaan from the Right Livelihood awarded Land Institute, USA  and Prof. Lennart Olsson from Lund University Centre…

  • RLC Bonn PhD student Amit Kumar from India presented his research proposal titled ‘Contested Urban Development: Resistance, Negotiations and Daily Life Struggles of Slum Dwellers in Mumbai, India’ at Department of Political and Cultural Change (ZEFa) on Thursday, 9 March 2017. The central focus of his research is to understand how forms of individual and collective…

  • On 5th of December, the University Austral in Chile, Valdivia organized the event “Activistas para un mundo mejor” (“Activists for a better world”) and the congress “La transdisciplina hecha práctica” (“Transdisciplinarity put into practice”) together with the RLC Valdivia. The event brought together five Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award (RLA) who all participated in…

  • In January 2017, RLC Bonn PhD student Willis Okumu from Kenya successfully defended his PhD on the topic “Meaning of Violence and Its Impacts on the Socio-Political Relations among the Samburu and Turkana of Baragoi, Northern Kenya”. Directly thereafter Willis started working for an NGO on the peace process in Northern Kenya. His thesis can be…

  • The RLC partner CURLS organises a People-Planet Partnership workshop in July, 18th – August 2nd, 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand. Workshops with Right Livelihood Award Laureate and experience facilitators Intercultural Dialogue with participants from different country Experiential learning in the communities Individual project design Forest walk: from Ego-Self to Eco-Self Inside-Out & Theater activism with experts Students…

  • RLC Bonn PhD student Alejandro Mora Motta is developing his field work since June 2016 in Chile. In collaboration with Right Livelihood Laureate Prof. Dr. Manfred Max-Neef and RLC Valdivia, Alejandro is currently in the field phase of his research in Los Ríos, Chile. His project focuses on how peasant and indigenous communities well-being has been…

  • RLC Bonn

    The Campus in Bonn is based at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), an independent research institute at the University of Bonn. It became RLC Campus in 2010 and since 2014, it has hosted the Global Secretariat of the College. Activities of the Campus include research projects on social justice, poverty and inequality reduction, and…

  • RLC Córdoba

    The Campus at the University of Córdoba (UCO) is hosted by the Faculty of Psychology, which has more than 10,000 students enrolled. It was founded and inaugurated by Right Livelihood Award Laureate Raúl Montenegro in April 2016. The National University of Cordoba has a long history of promoting democracy and human rights. In June 1918,…

  • RLC Lund

    In 2009, the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) became the RLC’s first European Campus. LUCSUS is a platform for education, research and cooperation inside and outside academia on questions related to sustainable development. The education consists primarily of the international master’s program in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES). The focus on research…

  • RLC Mumbai

    The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is an institution of excellence in higher learning in Mumbai, India, which since its inception in 1936, has consistently worked for the promotion of sustainable, equitable and participatory development, social welfare and social justice. The Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation (CLSI), hosted by the School of Social…


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