Agenda 13 - 19 September 2015

PhD defence. Title: Institutional Change and Economic Development. Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in Ethiopia. PhD candidate:  MB (Mequanint) Melesse MSc. Promoter: prof.dr.ir. EH (Erwin) Bulte.

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On the occasion of the defence of her PhD thesis ‘Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda’ on 16 September at VU University Amsterdam, Margot Leegwater organizes the seminar ‘Scarcity, Security and Sustainability: Bottom-up perspectives from rural Rwanda’ on the same day. Short presentations will be given by Dr An Ansoms (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve), Dr Bert Ingelaere (University of Antwerp), Cora Dekker (PhD student VU University) and Margot Leegwater. If you would like to attend this seminar, please send an email to Margot Leegwater before 11 September: leegwater@paxforpeace.nl.

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Miranda Brouwer onderzoekt welke factoren bijdragen aan een succesvolle implementatie van tuberculoserichtlijnen in Mozambique, waar tuberculose veel voor komt. Dit doet ze door de implementatie van een aantal internationaal ontwikkelde bestrijdingsrichtlijnen te evalueren, en te kijken deze bijdragen aan beslissingen op het gebied van gezondheidszorg.

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The influence and impact of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) on blood transfusion services in Africa; Case studies from Namibia. PhD ceremony: dr. J. Pitman. Promotors: prof. dr. M.J. (Maarten) Postma, prof. dr. T.S. (Tjip) van der Werf. The questions addressed by this thesis were born from an interest in the relationship between international development projects and the impact external funds had on technical issues of importance to blood transfusion services.

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Margot Leegwater will defend her PhD thesis Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda at the VU University. Land is a crucial yet scarce resource in Rwanda, where about 90% of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, and access to land is increasingly becoming a source of conflict. This study examines the effects of land-access and land-tenure policies on local community relations, including ethnicity, and land conflicts in post-conflict rural Rwanda. Social relations have been characterized by (ethnic) tensions, mistrust, grief and frustration since the end of the 1990-1994 civil war and the 1994 genocide.

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This seminar, which accompanies the new exhibition (1 July - 30 September) at the ASC with photographs taken by Akintunde Akinleye, maps the conversion of Nigeria’s former capital, Lagos – often described as an ‘apocalyptic megacity’ – into a Prayer City. Speaker: Marloes Janson, SOAS London. Please register

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