📢 New Working Paper: Increasingly Wageless? The #PoliticalEconomy of Salary Supplements in the #DRC Civil Service Explore the drivers, distribution, and governance impacts of salary supplements in the DRC. 🔗 Read here (EN/FR): loom.ly/ycRetnU

📢 Active pluralism in action Prof. Gert Van Hecken (IOB) transforms his classroom into a "brave space," inviting voices from the Black community to address racism and inequality. 📖 loom.ly/LUQdthI #ActivePluralism #DebatingDevelopment

🌍 Now Available: Conjonctures de l’Afrique Centrale 2024 📘 The 12th edition explores governance, resource management, conflict, and more in the DRC, Rwanda, & Burundi. 🔓 2023 edition now open access! 📖 Read here: loom.ly/4Yj8tdo #CentralAfrica #DevelopmentStudies

🎓 Join Héctor Herrera's PhD defence on "Municipal Green Bonds: Climate Finance & Injustice" 📅 Fri, Dec 13 🌐 Livestream: bit.ly/phd-herrera #PhD #ClimateFinance #GreenBonds

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🗓 GLAC Seminar: Rumour in Conservation Social Contracts Date: 28 Jan, 12:30–14:00 (online) Join Fergus O'Leary Simpson & Kristof Titeca to explore the role of rumours in conservation. 👉 Register: loom.ly/ke5Yr_w #Conservation #Yangambi #DRCongo

6,600+ academics, incl. Rudi Vranckx & Greta Thunberg, urge Belgian universities to boycott Israel: "Business as usual = complicity in violations of international law." (Dutch article)👇 loom.ly/EFjgAKc #AcademicBoycott #InternationalLaw #Solidarity

🔎 New article by Kristof Titeca explores the deep-rooted causes of the DRC-Rwanda conflict and the global response. A must-read for understanding the current dynamics. 🌍📚 #DRC #Rwanda #M23 #ConflictResolution #Africa #Geopolitics loom.ly/qApW594

🔍 The EU renews €20M funding to Rwanda's military, stirring debates on its neutrality in the Rwanda-DR Congo conflict. Read Kristof Titeca's in-depth analysis. #EU #Rwanda #DRCongo #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations loom.ly/-Twq4Hs

Explore financial tools shaping the #SDGs & gain insights ahead of the 4th UN Finance for Development Conference! UAntwerpen 👉 uantwerpen.be/finance4develo… #Finance4Development #SustainableFinance #SDGs #AntwerpSummerSchool #GlobalDevelopment #StudyAbroad

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📌 Next GLAC seminar: Tuesday 25 February at 12.00h CET. 🔍 Topic: Systematic review of co-production in community monitoring interventions across the African Great Lakes countries 👉 Register here: loom.ly/85EHx7w #africangreatlakes #datacollection

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Seminar 28 February 2025: How do statistical visualization practices construct knowledge and political order? 🔗 Register now: loom.ly/vHzY0eU #DataPolitics #DigitalDevelopment #Quantification #DataVisualization

Our latest research on the environmental toll of the M23 crisis has just been published in Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2025/03/the-en…

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