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The RLC Campus at the Tata Institute for Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai and the RLC Campus at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok organised a collaborative lecture series with international RLC researchers in Mumbai. On Thursday, September 26, two researchers from the RLC Campus at the Center for Development Researchers (ZEF) in Bonn contributed to the…
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From September 15-18, 2019, the RLC Campus Bonn brought together 18 PhD students from 12 countries in Africa and Asia for an interdisciplinary workshop at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn. Together with two Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”), they worked on sustainable agricultural and forestry in drylands. Australian…
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The Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The 2019 Award goes to Aminatou Haidar (Western Sahara), Guo Jianmei (China), Greta Thunberg (Sweden) and Davi Kopenawa / Hutukara Yanomami Association (Brazil). The Laureates were announced in Stockholm, Sweden, today. The announcement was made during a press…
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From May 28-29, 2019, the RLC Campus Port Harcourt organised its Annual Public Lecture at the Centre for Conflict and Gender Studies at Port Harcourt University for the fifth time already, set around the topic “Global Environmental Politics, Human Rights and Conflict”. Over 600 people from various professional backgrounds attended the two-day event. After the…
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From July 7-22, 2019, the RLC Campus Bangkok at the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research at Chulalongkorn University organised the fifth CURLS Summer School. This year, CURLS was part of the 2nd Earth Trusteeship Forum which took place from July 19-21. The main principle of the Earth Trusteeship is that “all global citizens are…
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From July 22–24, 2019, the RLC Campus Mumbai hosted a three-day workshop programme with Right Livelihood Award Laureate Alyn Ware, RLC Port Harcourt Coordinator Dr. Fidelis Allen, and RLC Bangkok researcher Dr. Victor Karunan. They participated in a guest lecture series, presentations by RLC PhD students, excursions to community-based livelihood projects, and in a public…
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The RLC Campus Bonn and the Center for Development Research joined the “Fridays for Future” Movement of pupils and youth as “Scientists for Future” within the 2nd Global Climate Strike. They wanted to express support to the young people and show that “Scientists for Future” are producing important knowledge on climate change impacts, and may…
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On Wednesday, July 3, representatives of ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’-awarded organisations and RLC Campuses spoke about alternative development pathways in Botswana, Kenya, and Nigeria, at a public RLC panel, hosted by the Adult Education Center (VHS) in Bonn. Dr. Amudavi, Director of Biovision Africa Trust (’Alternative Nobel Prize’ 2013) informed about his actions to improve livelihood…
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From July 1 to 3, 2019, the RLC Campus Bonn organised its first Alumni workshop focusing on “Agricultural and Social Transformation – Securing Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa”. 17 (development) academics and practitioners from eight countries in Sub-Sahara Africa presented innovative projects in the areas of natural resource management, agricultural transformation, as well as cross-cutting fields…
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“All the research you are doing is for becoming an actor of change. We have heard about 14 different countries over the last three days, all with the same problems. With one common action we can create change”, said Helen Mack Chang, Laureate the Right Livelihood Award in 1992, about the RLC Bonn workshop “Mobilization…
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