Faculty

Events:

Investing for change: How Geneva’s innovations in finance fuel the impact revolution | Born Out of Necessity: A Debt Standstill for COVID-19 | Global Economic Prospects: Pandemic and Crisis | COVID-19 in Developing Economies: What consequences can we anticipate and what effects can we mitigate? | Impact Investing | Decolonizing the University | Supporting Countries in the Context of Overlapping Crises

News:

Is it time to rethink philanthropy? | Finance & Development Expertise: Debt Sustainability in Africa | Economics in the Time of COVID-19 | Global Economic Prospects: Is This Time Different? | World Bank presents Global Economic Prospects Report on Recovery from Pandemic

Teaching:

Finance and Development

Publications:

Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose? | Is globalization finally re-balancing ? Novel ways of levelling the playing field for labour

Events:

Taking Action: NGO responses to Kenya’s Neglected Boy Child Debate | Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance | Rethinking the Agency of “Governed” Subjects

Publications:

A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child | Divorce, Living Arrangements, and Material Well-being during the Transition to Adulthood in Rural Malawi

Teaching:

Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice | Population and Development | Sociology of Gender

Events:

Research Frontiers in Gender and Sustainable Peace | What is Gender and Diversity Today? | 2020 Geneva Gender Debate | Festival FILMAR – Film Screening and Discussion | Decolonizing the University | Gender in Peacebuilding

News:

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise | Sexual Violence: A New Weapon of War | Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding | A Gendered Perspective on the Pandemic | Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva | Rural Women and Food Security | Gendering Survival from the Margins

Publications:

Performative technologies: agricultural research for development and gender | Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding | Untenable dichotomies de-gendering political economy | Introduction Gender Experts and Gender Expertise | A gendered perspective on the pandemic | Gender expertise in global governance contesting the boundaries of a field

Research:

The Gender Dimensions of Conflict | DEMETER – Gender, Land, and the Right to Food | Rural Cambodian women seeking access to land and to justice | Women’s Situation Rooms | Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

Teaching:

Gender and International Affairs

External Initiatives:

Sustainable Development Solutions Network | UN Women

Events:

Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life? | American democracy: a Trumpian blip or a deeper malaise?

News:

Interview with Branko Milanovic on Patterns, Causes and Remedies for Global Inequalities | New AHCD Podcast Series – Democracy in Question? | American democracy: a Trumpian blip or a deeper malaise? | Democracy from below: practices and limitations | Democracy in Question | Can liberal democracy right the wrongs of racial and gender injustices? | ‘Soft Authoritarianism’, a New Face of Electoral Democracy? | Democracy in Question? | How do economic inequalities corrode democratic processes? | Can liberal democracy outlive climate change? | Imperial Entanglements: Rethinking Modernity with and beyond Zygmunt Bauman | Democracy from below: What real utopias can we build on? | Is Facebook a danger to democracy? | Democracy in Question | Do we need to reinvent liberalism for the 21st century? | Political, sanitary, and geo-strategic implications of the vaccine passport | What keeps democracies alive? | What is the state of democracy in Hong Kong? | How can we structure digital spaces more democratically? | Why are reproductive rights contentious issues in the US and Argentina? | Fascism and the ills of contemporary politics | Democracy In Question? | Democracy in Question?

Publications:

Sustainable Food Consumption, Urban Waste Management and Civic Activism | How Not to Waste a Garbage Crisis: Food Consumption, Solid Waste Management and Civic Activism in Bangalore/Bengaluru, India | Garbage Is Good to Think With: The Interplay of Civic Activism and Judicial Intervention in Shaping Bangalore’s Solid Waste Management Policies | The commons, intellectual property rights and food sovereignty | Exclusion as a liberal imperative culture, gender, and the orientalization of migration

Research:

The Everyday State | The Puzzle of Unspent Funds: The Institutional Architecture of Unaccountable Governance | The subnational politics of company-community relationships in the extractives sector

Publications:

DEMETER Gender, Land and the Right to Food

Research:

DEMETER – Gender, Land, and the Right to Food

Research:

FDI and labor protests in China

Teaching:

Globalisation and the Political Economy Labour | International Political Economy

Events:

Microcosms of Global Capitalism

News:

Future of Food: Agriculture, Food Systems and Supply Chains in the Age of Climate Change | Pierre Du Bois 2019 Conference Tackles Global Capitalism | Seeds of Development: Agriculture, History and Politics

Events:

Research Frontiers in Gender and Sustainable Peace | Participatory filmmaking on SDG16+: The making of a research documentary | From warriors to local peacebuilders? Lessons from reintegration processes in post-conflict settings through the voices of former (female) combatants

News:

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Publications:

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Research:

The Gender Dimensions of Conflict

Events:

Gangs Project Public Launch | Gang Governance, from the Local to the Global | Security and the Pandemic: Global Perspectives | Launch Event | Urban Livelihoods and Everyday Life in Pandemic Times | Democracy and Transitional States: Civilian experiences of the Ugandan State

News:

Villes sous tension ? | Gang Governance, from the Local to the Global | De Managua au Cap, le trafic de drogue au temps du COVID-19 | COVID-19 and planetary urbanisation | The Impact of COVID-19 on Cities | 8ème Rencontres Recherche et Création “La mémoire du futur” | Gangs and Suburbs: What Impact on the French Elections?

Research:

Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography | Understanding the Tipping Point of Urban Conflicts: Violence, Cities, and Poverty Reduction in the Developing World

Teaching:

Cities, Conflict, and Development