Conference 2011 Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty

Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty

New Values, Voice and Alliances for Increased Resilience

19-22 September, DSA-EADI Conference York, UK

Day 1: New values: Rethinking progress and how to measure it

Tuesday 20th September

Sessions and Presentations 11.15-1pm

Sessions and Presentations 2.30-4.30pm

Sessions and Presentations 5.00-7.00pm

Day 2: New Institutions Rethinking Governance

Wednesday 21st September

Sessions and Presentations 11.15-1pm

Sessions and Presentations 2.30-4.30pm

Day 3: New Ideas: Where are the voices and alliances?

Thursday 22nd September

Sessions and Presentations 9.00-4.30pm

Full conference programme - schedule of working groups and panels.

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About the Conference

EADI's triennal general conferences are the Association's public forum for debate and research. The 13th General Conference will be held in co-operation with the Development Studies Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland (DSA).

The EADI-DSA 2011 joint conference aimed to be one convening space to fundamentally revisit and rethink the development paradigm(s) in all its dimensions in an era of plurality, uncertainty and change.

The EADI-DSA 2011 conference aimed to maximise the opportunity of working together and to revisit and rethink ‘development’, to generate new ideas, new narratives and new thinking whenever possible globally co-constructed with partners in global-South.

The conference aimed to go forward by rethinking what are new universals in terms of ideas, and narratives that will allow humanity to reach some kind of adaptive and sustainable pathway or pathways by taking inter-cultural, inter-generational and inter-disciplinary forces into account. Please consult the conference description for a broader introduction to the theme, or download the conference leafltet for key facts about the event.

It is at the level of plenary, parallel and working group sessions that we will deal with the different economic, social, political, cultural and ecological aspects covered by this large, all-encompassing theme.

The conference provided several formats for the presentation of concepts, research results, policy conclusions and debate among development scholars and between them and policy makers and representatives of the civil society and the business community.

The conference began with the Dudley Seers Lecture by an eminent development thinker. Each of the three conference days had a focus or a theme: