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SUMMARY:GDI Conference: What is the future for global development?
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DESCRIPTION:GDI is hosting a conference asking  ‘What is the future for g
 lobal development?’\, which will take place on 13-14 April 2026 in Manch
 ester. Learn more about the conference and the agenda below.  \n\nTicket
 s are free but are currently sold out. Add your name to the waitlist her
 e: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-development-institute-conferenc
 e-tickets-1980100057575?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\nFresh assaults on overseas 
 aid\, trade relationships and the liberal international order during 202
 5 have led some commentators to proclaim ‘The End of Development’. This 
 dismantling of development cooperation\, and wider rules of internationa
 l engagement\, has generated new urgency around global dynamics that wer
 e already re-shaping global development. These stretch well-beyond decli
 ning levels of aid to include increased levels of superpower rivalry and
  geopolitical fragmentation\; new patterns of globalisation\; collective
  action failures around the climate emergency\, as well as health and mi
 gration\; the rise of authoritarian politics\; and heightened levels of 
 conflict between as well as within states. All carry profound implicatio
 ns for the future of global development\, for how development should be 
 conceptualised and for how social and environmental justice can be promo
 ted at the current juncture. Recent debates around global development fu
 tures have tended to adopt the language of ‘poly-crisis’ and ‘catastroph
 e’\, unsurprisingly given the destabilising nature of recent events and 
 rising levels of human suffering. However\, such framings tend to obscur
 e the systemic nature of some current dynamics\, the problematic nature 
 of the world order that is currently being displaced and the opportuniti
 es to rethink development that the current moment offers.\n\nConference 
 Agenda\n \n\nMonday 13 April\n \n\n9.30-11.30am: PGR Masterclass/es\n\n1
 0-12pm: GDI International Advisory Board meeting\n\n11.30-12.30pm: arriv
 al with lunch\n\n12.30-2pm: First Plenary: The New Geopolitics of Develo
 pment: What Future is there for Development Studies? \n\nLee Jones\, Que
 en Mary University London – The new geopolitics of development\nYuen Yue
 n Ang\, Johns Hopkins University – From polycrisis to polytunity\n2-3.30
 pm: Parallel One\n\n3.30-4pm: tea/coffee\n\n4-5.30pm: Parallel Two\n\n5.
 30-7pm: Second Plenary/Public Talk \n\nDaniela Gabor\, SOAS – From Wall 
 Street Consensus to developmentalism for climate and social justice\n7-7
 .30pm: drinks at Christies Bistro/posters in the Whitworth Hall \n\n7.30
 -9pm: dinner/displays/posters in the Whitworth Hall \n\n \n\nTuesday 14 
 April\n \n\n9.30-11am: Third Plenary – What is the future for Developmen
 t Cooperation?\n\nLen Ishmael\, Policy Centre for the New South – The ne
 w geopolitics of development cooperation – towards ‘like-minded internat
 ionalism’\nKen Opalo\, Georgetown University – Are international actors 
 behaving differently in/towards Africa? What opportunities does the curr
 ent moment present to African rulers and how should they respond?   \n11
 -11.30am: tea/coffee\n\n11.30-1pm: Parallel Three \n\n1-2pm: lunch\n\n2-
 3.30pm: Fourth Plenary: where have we got to and where next?\n\nAmani Ab
 ou-Zeid\, Former African Union Commissioner\nTony Bebbington\, Ford Foun
 dation\nImran Matin\, BRAC-University\nEmma Mawdsley\, University of Cam
 bridge \n3.30-4pm: tea/coffee\n\n4-5.30pm: Public Talk/Final Plenary\n\n
 Winnie Byanyima\, UNAIDS – Inequality and the case for global public inv
 estment
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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