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Global Impact Soirée

By Sandrine Murray

 

On May 9, 2017, CNHH attended Global Impact Soirée, an event highlighting Canadian contributions to international aid.

Tyler Owens and Julia van Drie helped research a film discussing Canada’s history of international aid. It took the work of six CNHH members to identify events, while research assistants Tyler and Julia documented them. The CNHH also helped rejuvenate the slide show of CIDA highlighted at the evening. “25 years of excellence in International Photography,” was brought back online at the CNHH’s request, and is now hosted by the MacOdrum Library at Carleton University.To see the photos, check out the CIDA photo library collection here.

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NEXTGEN DATABASE of International Development and Humanitarian Assistance Researchers

The Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) are happy to announce the launch of their NextGen database and invite members of the CASID and the CNHH to join.  This database can provide members of the CNHH the opportunity to promote their research on development and humanitarianism and make it visible to a wider academic community.

The NextGen database is a user-friendly online searchable inventory of more than 500 Canadian researchers from universities, colleges, institutes, think-tanks, and civil society organizations (CSOs) working on international development and humanitarian assistance! It is part of a broader three-year collaboration.
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Developing Today’s World: Cuso International, 1980-1996

by Nicholas Hepner

 

Nicholas is a third year student in the Department of History at Carleton University.  In addition to being a member and RA with the CNHH, Nicholas interns with Cuso International and was enrolled in HIST 3807A Practicum in History where research on this article was undertaken under the supervision of Jennifer Buter, Communications Officer at Cuso.  The CNHH thanks Cuso and Dr. John Walsh, who ran HIST 3807A, for their support with this project.

 

 

Over the course of a semester, I spent several months on a practicum with Cuso International, a Canadian international development non-governmental organization (NGO). Cuso International develops partnerships with developing countries around the world and sends volunteers on two-year contracts. During these months I spent at Cuso International’s Ottawa office, I researched the history of the organization during the 1980s and 1990s. In that time, I learned about Cuso International’s initiatives during these years, like its support for the anti-apartheid movement, and some notable alumni (returned volunteers) who volunteered with Cuso International during those years.

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Call for Applications: Global Humanitarianism Research Academy 2018

The Global Humanitarianism Research Academy is now accepting applications for its fourth session to be held in 2018.  This opportunity for PhD candidates and early Postdoctoral Fellows is led by Drs. Fabian Klose (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz), Johannes Paulmann (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz), and Andrew Thompson (University of Exeter), in co-operation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva) and with the support of the German Historical Institute London.

 

The Research Academy will be held at the University of Exeter and Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, on 9-20 July 2018.  The deadline to apply is 31 December 2017.

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CfP: APPEL DE CONTRIBUTIONS – Transitions énergétiques et climatiques : enjeux, débats et expérimentations en cours

Lien social et Politiques 82, Printemps 2019.

Ce numéro se situe dans la continuité de ces analyses avec une double intention :

Rassembler des travaux empiriques consacrés à des pratiques concrètes de « transition » énergétique et climatique (en incluant le champ de la mobilité), institutionnelles ou non, de manière à mieux saisir la dynamique des politiques et expérimentations en cours dans une variété de contextes ;

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Canadian Council for International Cooperation – Call for Volunteers

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Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) – Call for Conference Volunteers

Date: September 27 to 28th, 2017 Ottawa
Location: AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA

Are you passionate about International Development?

CCIC is looking for hard-working, dynamic, and dedicated volunteers to join us during our conference INFLUENCE INSPIRE INNOVATE – Realizing the Potential of New Policy Directions. As a volunteer, you can attend the conference events free of charge.

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CfP: “From Trauma to Protection: the 20th Century as the Children’s Century”

CALL FOR PAPERS – due 30 September 2017

Of all centuries, the twentieth is perhaps the one which most deserves to qualify as the ‘children’s century’ for the way in which the focus of social and political concern increasingly alighted on the figure of the child.

The period from the end of the 19th century witnessed a series of international developments affecting the discourses articulated around children’s rights to physical protection, health and well-being: from the multiplication of laws to protect them in the public and private spheres, to the rise of non-governmental organisations and associations to bring them relief from trauma, insecurity and maltreatment. At the same time, the twentieth century has gone hand-in-hand with increasing opportunities for children to experience such tragedies; and in both domestic settings (abuse or neglect) as well as wider geopolitical manifestations of violence (war and genocide) such anxieties have influenced the form and nature of the above responses.

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