by GDI | Oct 22, 2025 | News
Amidst an atmosphere of increasing hostility towards migrants in the UK, the Global Development Institute’s Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group will be hosting a teach in/out to tackle misconceptions about migration and underline its role as a social good....
by GDI | Oct 15, 2025 | Comment
By Teklehaymanot Weldemichel and Smith Ouma The African Union has long promoted the slogan “African solutions to African problems”. Yet recent developments across the continent suggest that this proclamation is increasingly hollow. To begin with, in a world of...
by GDI | Sep 19, 2025 | Comment
On 16th September 2025, we held the second communities of practice in a series exploring the complexities of developing and maintaining resilience within the development space. Natalie Cunningham, Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development at GDI, facilitated the...
by GDI | Sep 16, 2025 | Comment
by Professor Nicola Banks It’s been 20 years since the huge phenomenon of Make Poverty History. Nearly one-quarter of a million people marched the streets of Edinburgh. More than three billion worldwide watched Live 8. And over 7 million of us wore white wristbands in...
by GDI | Sep 15, 2025 | Comment
by Dilek Celebi, PhD Researcher in GDI On 16 September 2022, a young woman’s murder shook the world. Jîna Amini – a Kurdish-Iranian woman known to the state as Mahsa Amini – journeyed from her hometown of Saqqez (in Kurdistan province) to Tehran. Accused of violating...
