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Grégoire Mallard’s book makes three major interventions. The first one looks at the classical anthropological concept of the “gift” (or in French, the système de prestations réciproques) developed by Marcel Mauss in his famous essay, a concept that has since been...
As forcefully articulated and expressed by Sir Ken Robinson, the internationally recognised leader in education and human resources, the current trouble with education is the still dominant culture of conformity, compliance and standardisation, a triad designed to...
The launch of the eighth edition of the Executive Programme in Advocacy in International Affairs is a good time to reflect on the changing face of advocacy. When we first designed it back in 2011, advocacy was an emerging discipline seen by many as synonymous with...
Goods cross borders better than migrants We live in a world where we can ensure unbroken cold chains for food items or vaccines through very distant countries and keep the perfect quality of the product. This happens thanks to an agreed set of strict standards and to...
Les termes peuvent prêter à confusion…En janvier 2019, lors d’un cours dans le cadre de la Formation continue de l’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, nous avons découvert à titre d’exemple ces extraits dans la presse du jour : (Reuters)...
Divorces often turn sour and Brexit – the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) – is, unfortunately, a case in point. Initiated by a referendum that was an electoral promise of the British Conservative Party to address an enduring internal...
What was once known as knowledge is power has now become data is power. It’s enough to say that about 90% of the available data has been created only in the last two years. Back in the day, Gutenberg’s printing press hastened the pace at which knowledge was produced....
Last month, on the 8th of March, the world celebrated the International Women’s Day (IWD). In early 20th century, the global women’s movement established this date as a day when women around the world would press for their demands to combat oppression and inequality....
Fiabilité, expertise, capacité d’innovation, prise en compte de l’Agenda 2030, solide tradition humanitaire : la coopération internationale de la Suisse se voit attribuer de nombreux bons points par le Comité d’aide au développement (CAD) de l’OCDE dans le rapport que...
Despite increasing scientific evidence of worsening environmental degradation and continuing climate change, actions to address them have remained largely insufficient to “smoothly” change course to a sustainable future. For too many individuals, organisations and...
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