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Hi all,

This is truly blog post #502!
Wow…and it’s truly even in addition to hence ane of the fun parts of the function calendar week :)

This calendar week features a lot of international organizations-and to a greater extent than oft than non it’s non goodness news…

But my quote of the calendar week comes from Clelia O. Rodríguez in addition to it addresses many issues both inwards #globaldev in addition to #highered:
The corridors of the hallways inwards the establishment where I currently function embodies this faux-solidarity inwards posters most conferences, colloquiums, in addition to trips inwards the Global South or most the Global South that terms an arm in addition to a leg. As long every bit yous remove hold coin to pay for your airfare, hotel, meals in addition to transportation, yous also could add together 2 lines inwards the CV in addition to speak most the novel social get in addition to their radical strategies to dismantle the system. You also tin lav participate inwards academic dialogues most poverty in addition to labor rights every bit yous top yesteryear an undocumented cleaner who volition brand your bed spell yous go to the primary conference room to beak most her struggles.

Development news: The fence approximately the 2 United Nations experts killed inwards Congo; the WHO is spending a lot of coin on travel; the World Bank has an internal clash over linguistic communication in addition to writing culture; is the globe ‘plundering’ Africa? Being immature & unemployed inwards Sierra Leone.

Our digital lives: Speech yesteryear New Orleans Mayor on confederate monuments in addition to memory; smart slums: Good or bad? No ‘big bets’ for Hewlett foundation; large information & the distancing from politics.

Publications: NGOs inwards the 21 century; cities every bit humanitarian actors; emerging providers inwards #globaldev; 50 years of Asian Development Bank.

Academia: Fasting & fieldwork; academia, poverty & ‘intellectual masturbation’; academic engagement inwards the digital age.

Enjoy!

Development news
For 2 Experts Killed inwards Congo, U.N. Provided Little Training in addition to No Protection
The killings remove hold also stirred a sudden fence over the United Nations’ responsibleness to laid upwardly in addition to protect the people it hires to investigate wrongdoing approximately the world. Ms. Catalán in addition to Mr. Sharp belonged to a panel of vi experts authorized yesteryear the Security Council to investigate rapes, massacres in addition to the exploitation of Congo’s vast natural resources.
Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura in addition to Somini Sengupta for the New York Times with the slice that sparked a lot of discussions this week. The instance is complicated-but with many other things it is a reminder that nosotros projection a lot on the United Nations system: Today nosotros propose 'health insurance for consultants'-and tomorrow at that topographic point volition live 'the United Nations scheme is wasting X 1000000 dollars on a cushy security internet for external experts' headline somewhere. And a lot of United Nations function is (still) truly dangerous, requires a lot of dedication in addition to tin lav speedily acquire a plaything for diverse political interests...

Families of 2 U.N. Investigators Slain inwards Congo Speak Out
There is abundant evidence that these murders were premeditated in addition to that no amount of preparation could remove hold altered the outcome.
No fellow member of the United Nations Group of Experts on Congo had been killed before, in addition to at that topographic point was no argue to hold back abduction or murder. For this reason, nosotros are pressing the secretarial assistant full general to appoint an independent international criminal investigation squad to position the perpetrators in addition to their chain of ascendance in addition to to assist ensure that those responsible human face upwardly justice.
A missive of the alphabet from the families inwards response to the New York Times article.

Who is to blame for the murders of Michael in addition to Zaida?
There is no dubiety that the United Nations tin lav do a much ameliorate chore supporting the diverse groups of experts in addition to panels that are inwards accuse of monitoring the sanctions regimes (North Korea, Somalia/Eritrea, Sudan, Central African Republic, etc.). When I was coordinator of the DRC grouping inwards 2008, nosotros never received whatsoever security or investigative training, nosotros had to utilization our individual Yahoo! in addition to Gmail electronic mail addresses, in addition to nosotros didn’t remove hold whatsoever analytical software to organize our notes or do network analysis.
On the other hand, the Times article takes some pot shots. Yes, nosotros did non remove hold wellness insurance––but the experts remove hold the status of consultants in addition to every bit consultants anywhere are expected to buy their ain wellness care, in addition to all of the electrical flow members are insured. Yes, nosotros did non remove hold security escorts, but the United Nations peacekeeping mission inwards the Congo is perceived every bit a political party to the conflict (they acquit articulation operations with the Congolese army) in addition to the experts would non live able to access many of the armed groups if they went with a United Nations escort. And yes, ameliorate preparation on many issues would live great, but the electrical flow members of the grouping of experts do remove hold considerable experience in addition to are non “woefully unprepared.”
Jason Stearns from The Congo Research Group at NYU

AP Exclusive: United Nations wellness way slammed for high move costs
WHO said Lord's Day that nearly lx per centum of its move costs were spent on sending exterior experts to affected countries in addition to for national representatives to attend WHO meetings.
During the Ebola disaster inwards West Africa, WHO’s move costs spiked to $234 million. Although experts say on-the-ground assist was critical, some inquiry whether the way couldn’t remove hold shaved its costs in addition to hence to a greater extent than funds went to West Africa . The iii countries that bore the brunt of the outbreak couldn’t fifty-fifty afford basics such every bit protective boots, gloves in addition to lather for endangered medical workers.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, who directed WHO’s outbreak response, racked upwardly nearly $400,000 inwards move expenses during the Ebola crisis, sometimes flight yesteryear helicopter to catch clinics instead of traveling yesteryear jeep over dingy roads, according to trip reports he filed.
Maria Cheng for AP News with some other storey from within the United Nations system. I am pretty for certain that some managerial aspects tin lav live improved-but the WHO also has a mandate to convey policy makers together or response inwards crisis situations, balancing long-term in addition to short-term goals of visibility, planning in addition to beingness an inclusive global organization.

World Bank's Star Economist Is Sidelined inwards War Over Words
Romer asked for shorter emails in addition to insisted presentations acquire direct to the point, cutting staff off if they talked also long, said some other individual familiar with the matter. He canceled a regular publication that didn’t remove hold a clear purpose, ane of the people said.
But researchers didn’t similar the brusk way Romer oft conveyed his message, said 2 people familiar with the matter. Staff were upset yesteryear what they saw every bit his abrasive emails, in addition to they didn’t experience Romer listened to their concerns, these people said. Researchers were flummoxed yesteryear some of his stylistic hangups, including a distaste for the conjunction “and.”
Romer was frustrated with what some reckon every bit the dense, convoluted mode of many of the department’s reports. He pushed researchers to write to a greater extent than clearly, using the active vocalisation to live to a greater extent than direct.
Andrew Mayeda for Bloomberg. And some other international organisation made it into the word this week! The globe of words in addition to discourses of economical writing at the Bank remove hold acquire role of a leadership conflict-development enquiry gilded ;)!



World is plundering Africa's wealth of 'billions of dollars a year'
Forstater said: “There are 1.2 billion people inwards Africa. This written report seems to stance these people in addition to their institutions every bit an inert bucket into which coin is poured or stolen away, rather than every bit role of dynamic in addition to growing economies. The $41bn headline they come upwardly up with needs to live set into context that the overall gross domestic product of Africa is some $7.7tn. Economies do non grow yesteryear stockpiling inflows in addition to preventing outflows but yesteryear enabling people to invest in addition to learn, adjust technologies in addition to access markets.
“Some of the issues that the written report raises – such every bit illegal logging, line-fishing in addition to the terms of adapting to climate alter – are important, but adding together all apparent inflows in addition to outflows is meaningless.”
Karen McVeigh for The Guardian with the slice that goes along with some of the tweets above.
The theme ever ensure a goodness amount of sharing in addition to traffic, but it is goodness to reckon Maya Forstater given infinite to challenge underlying enquiry at the same time!

Cities every bit Humanitarian Actors inwards Contexts of Displacement
Taking a arrive at of examples from across the world, this written report volition examine how novel arrivals are received in addition to integrated into cities within formal in addition to informal spaces; how cities address everyday issues relating to housing in addition to shelter, wellness in addition to education; how urban citizens ready socio-cultural communities of solidarity inwards periods of uncertainty in addition to transition; in addition to the role of civil gild inwards these processes to back upwardly in addition to engage with displaced populations. It examines the thought of cities every bit humanitarian actors, highlighting goodness practices in addition to initiatives inwards unlike urban contexts that address electrical flow humanitarian challenges relating to migration in addition to forced displacement.
Megha Amrit for the UNU Institute of Globalization, Culture in addition to Mobility.

Emerging providers’ international co-operation for development
This newspaper shows that evolution co-operation from emerging providers – i.e. countries beyond the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) – significantly increased inwards recent years, reaching 17% of total global evolution co-operation inwards 2014. It also presents a fossil oil estimate, of USD 300 billion, of broader international co-operation yesteryear emerging providers in addition to it sets out what types of instruments are used to render this broader international co-operation.
Julia Benn in addition to Willem Luijkx for the OECD. For some inexplicable argue at that topographic point is a smiley human face upwardly side yesteryear side to the championship on the official OECD page...

Banking on the Future of Asia in addition to the Pacific: 50 Years of the Asian Development Bank
Focusing on the region’s economical development, the evolution of the international evolution agenda, in addition to the storey of ADB itself, Banking on the Future of Asia in addition to the Pacific raises several fundamental questions: What are the outstanding features of regional evolution to which ADB had to respond? How has the depository fiscal establishment grown in addition to evolved inwards changing circumstances? How did ADB’s successive leaders promote reforms spell preserving continuity with the efforts of their predecessors?
The ADB celebrates its 50th anniversary with this novel official publication.

Academia
The Fast in addition to The Curious
Can I justify eating or drinking during Ramadan to protect the integrity of my enquiry process? Will this brand me a lesser Muslim? Maybe. Probably. To most — definitely.
I fighting with how to reconcile these thoughts inwards my head. The destination of my function is to uncover hidden truths, latent needs, in addition to undiscovered barriers that percolate through people’s lives. But I tin lav alone do that function if I’m perceived every bit neutral, objective, in addition to unassuming — or at the really least, worthy of trust in addition to respect.
I pick out to abide yesteryear the things I admire most my faith in addition to that align with my values. Fasting, at its core, is most agreement those who remove hold to alive solar daytime inwards in addition to solar daytime out on an empty stomach. And the ultimate destination of my enquiry is aligned to that same goal — of agreement how people live, think, in addition to survive. This is my workaround. It is non the neatest workaround. But if my ultimate destination is understanding, for that I tin lav pick out to eat.
As Ramadan is most to commencement Sarah Fathallah shares her reflections on academic fieldwork nether the weather condition of fasting in addition to cultural expectations of nutrient in addition to drink.

How academia uses poverty, oppression, in addition to hurting for intellectual masturbation
The corridors of the hallways inwards the establishment where I currently function embodies this faux-solidarity inwards posters most conferences, colloquiums, in addition to trips inwards the Global South or most the Global South that terms an arm in addition to a leg. As long every bit yous remove hold coin to pay for your airfare, hotel, meals in addition to transportation, yous also could add together 2 lines inwards the CV in addition to speak most the novel social get in addition to their radical strategies to dismantle the system. You also tin lav participate inwards academic dialogues most poverty in addition to labor rights every bit yous top yesteryear an undocumented cleaner who volition brand your bed spell yous go to the primary conference room to beak most her struggles.
Clelia O. Rodríguez for RaceBaitR with fantabulous nutrient for thought on privilege, neoliberalism in addition to existing inwards academia.

Rules of engagement: vii lessons from communicating higher upwardly in addition to below the line
So it tin lav work. Productive engagement online is possible. But live acutely aware of the many pitfalls in addition to pratfalls that tin lav befall you, non to the lowest degree those listed above. To engage every bit productively every bit possible, follow Wendig’s advice in addition to regularly tend to those weeds.
And don’t live surprised if many of those who publicly “critique” your efforts don’t fifty-fifty read yesteryear the championship of your post/video/article earlier they vent their spleen. You’ll observe that nix is quite every bit irritating every bit those who desire to engage without engaging.
Philip Moriarty for LSE Impact Blog on academic engagement inwards the digital age.

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