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This year no less than 21 excellent PhD Theses were submitted for the SNIS Award making the year 2013 one of the most competitive rounds for this prestigious award. The special jury, composed of five professors from different disciplines, have closely examined the submissions and determined the winner as : Dr Lea Stadtler for her Thesis entitled : Designing Public-Private Partnerships for Development Received the 19th December 2012 at the University of Geneva, under the supervision of Professor Gilbert Probst With its focus on public private partnerships for development the Thesis touches on a central problem in today’s policy challenges, most notably also for actors in the international domain. Therefore, international organizations will directly benefit from highly practical recommendations found in the Thesis. This direct applicability of carefully constructed academic results is the strength of this piece and the jury also specifically lauded its clear and unobstructed language that makes the insights accessible to a wide audience of practitioners and academics alike. The SNIS warmly congratulates the laureate, Dr Lea Stadler, for her outstanding achievement. |
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This SNIS funded project examines the resilience of the Norwegian Arctic Island of Svalbard and the Surselva-Andermatt Region to global environmental changes from the angle of social network governance. Both regions are experiencing climate change at twice the rate of the world average and are economically dependent on tourism. Through an applied social network analysis of four communities and two regions the project seeks to understand the mechanisms on how to build resilience to climate and socio-economic change. The video gives a captivating insight on the research undertaken, first findings and next steps. |
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After two years of research on the feminisation of anti-poverty policies, Professor François-Xavier Merrien, the expert having coordinated the project funded by the SNIS, presented the research findings at a workshop held at the University of Lausanne. The research carried out in Mozambique, Brazil and the Philippines has provided several interesting results. As mentioned in an interview with Professor Merrien, the widespread discourse on the relevance of poverty programmes has proved to be rather delusive. It is usually said that the “conditional cash transfers” aiming at fighting against poverty through allocations are effective instruments to emphasise the role of women in economic development, whereas field research showed that this claim has to be reconsidered, especially in the light of local practices. Likewise, these programmes tend to overemphasise the global architecture but do not sufficiently take into account regional specificities and the uniqueness of each social context. |
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The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South is organising a forum for policy and research taking place in Bern on 4 June 2013, from 17:00 to 19:30. The event will showcase highlights from the Centre's 12-year research programme and give representatives from policy, development, and research an opportunity to discuss the role and potential of research networks in promoting sustainable development in the global South.
more information and programme at: www.north-south.unibe.ch |
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The on-line news magazine of the University of Zürich gives an interesting insight on this SNIS funded project that combines psychology and law in order to help and train lawyers confronted with witnesses suffering of post-traumatic disorders in the hearings of the Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trial. The multidisciplinary approach combining law and psychology is meant to provide tools to be more effective in the hearings. Therefore, alongside with lawyers, psychologists have been involved for several purposes. They are able to take into account eventual traumas in the judicial procedures and are entrusted with monitoring the trial according to the evidences identified by their inquiries. Additionally, they are involved in a continuous educational process, which aims at providing the lawyers with tools to better understand the complex situation of victimhood. Amongst others, they have observed that witnesses have a different attitude depending on the person questioning them, which constitutes an important factor in the truth establishing process. read the article (in German): http://www.uzh.ch/news/articles/2013/genug-der-traumata-in-kambodscha.html read more about the project: Psychology, Mental Health and Law: Integrating Psychological Knowledge in the Cambodia Trials |
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In today's globalized world, most countries face major social, economic, technological, political and institutional changes. In order to successfully implement a project, be it a development project, a public action or a private business, scientists, technicians and academics from the North and South will increasingly have to work together. The need to integrate different kinds of expertise will also be a necessity. In addition to the specialized skills in their respective fields, professionals will have to be able to understand specific historical and cultural backgrounds, to face new and changing situations and environments, and tackle different ways of thinking and implementing projects. To help professionals to adapt to these situations and promote an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to these problems, EPFL is organizing the second edition of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Management of Development Projects (MaDePro) targeted at project managers, engineers, architects, social scientists and other equivalent university graduates. |