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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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London open day workshop on managing risk in insecure contexts: Pathways to resilience and peacebuilding

Event - Workshop - 23 February 2012 09:00 - 17:30 (GMT+00)

The London Open Day Workshop will build on the Geneva Open Day held in January to examine strategies for more effective harmonization of different humanitarian, risk management and conflict/fragile states programming, in order to create an enabling environment for resilience and peace-building before, during and after complex political emergencies.

Simon Levine and Samir Elhawary will be presenting during the workshop.

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South Sudan in the making: perspectives on nation and state building in South Sudan

Event - Public event - 8 February 2012 14:00 - 18:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The workshop aimed to shed light on processes of state and nation building in South Sudan and how this is negotiated on the local and regional level. Ellen Martin spoke on the topic of: "Juba: a capital in the making" and took part in the panel discussion.

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UN Integration and humanitarian space

Event - Lecture - 31 January 2012 14:30 - 16:30 (GMT-05)

Sara Pantuliano discusses 'UN integration and humanitarian space' - a joint report published by the Humanitarian Policy Group and the Stimson Center.

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Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation

Event - Conference - 24 - 25 January 2012

Tom Mitchell partakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Government of Norway to craft a future outreach series for the Special Report on Climate Extremes ’by learning from the delivery of the Oslo outreach event’.

The conference can be viewed online here.

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Mapping the world of humanitarianism

Event - Workshop - 20 - 21 January 2012

Sara Pantuliano participated in this workshop which explored: What the world of humanitarianism looks like; the most significan trends in humanitarianism; the consequences of the identified trends in humanitarianism and asked, why should we care?

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Show me the evidence

Event - Seminar - 8 December 2011 11:30 - 13:00 (GMT+00)

In this seminar Ajoy Datta from RAPID will join a panel with parliamentarians, parliamentary staff and other external experts to discuss what lessons can be learned from research into evidence informed policy making to date, focussing mainly on the developing world.

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Bridging the Gap between research, policy and practice

Event - Conference - 7 - 8 December 2011

This event focused on knowledge brokerage in the social sciences. It was designed to encourage dialogue between knowledge exchange practitioners and organisations, and researchers who study knowledge exchange. John Young presented during the morning plenary whilst Ajoy Datta delivered a presentation on knowledge brokering in developing countries.

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Consultation on the draft European Report on Development

Event - Conference - 18 November 2011 14:00 - 16:30 (GMT+00)

The European Report on Development team was invited to present the draft European Report on Development 2011/2012 at the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference on 18 November 2011.

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The palestinian political economy: daily practices, sustainability and prospects

Event - Conference - 16 November 2011

At this conference, Massimiliano Cali - Research Associate at Overseas Development Institute - delivered a presentation titled 'Military occupation, foreign aid and the elusive quest for a viable Palestinian economy'.

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Carbon markets for the poor: a contradiction in terms?

Event - Public event - 15 November 2011 19:00 - 21:00 (GMT+00)

Simon Maxwell, Senior Research Associate ODI and chair of the Climate Change and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), chaired a panel, which brought together environmental, economic and development experts, to debate whether the commitment to carbon markets is the right approach to climate change at this public event.

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