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29-11-2023

1st UNITAR Conference at the UN in Bonn

Our PhD IDS Student Emmanuel Monyei was a panelist at the 1st International United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Conference which held at the United Nations, Bonn on the 23rd and 24th, November 2023.

He presented a paper at one of the break-out sessions during the conference. In his presentation titled, ‘Neither nameless nor faceless: Climate change and the human security of SIDS’ citizens’, he discussed the limitations of the extant international legal order and Human Rights Based Approaches (HRBAs) in protecting climate refugees from Small Island Developing States (SIDS). He re-iterated the limitations of utilizing the language of climate ‘change’ for the most affected people who see such changes as an actual ‘crisis’, as it affects their nationality and core national identity. He proffered alternative approaches to protect SIDS’ citizens in the context of climate induced displacements, through Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), and under Human Security Based Approaches (HSBAs).

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PhD IDS News

19-09-2023

Congratulations Dr. Bablu Chakma!

After successful defence of his PhD Thesis on Friday, 15th September 2023, Bablu Chakma has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.).

Foto: Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. Bablu Chakma, 
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein

His thesis with the title “Community, Market Intermediaries, and the State. Survival-cum-Upward Mobility Strategies of Indigenous Villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz and Prof. Dr. Shapan Adnan. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.

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MADM News

20-04-2023

MADM students as authors and editors at D+C/E+Z

We would like to raise attention to the new articles of our MADM students and alumni in the magazine Development + Cooperation / Entwicklung + Zusammenarbeit.

D+C/E+Z magazine is a forum for international debate and is keen on contributions from around the world. In particular, authors from developing countries and emerging markets share  their views in a monthly digital and print edition. D+C/E+Z is furthermore one of IEE's internship partners for MADM students and has hosted several interns during the last years with many remaining true to D+C/E+Z.

So please have a look at MADM student Prince Thompson’s from Ghana first article “Through Nigeria’s presidential election was a mess, the news for ECOWAS was rather good” and MADM alumnus Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi’s from Uganda article “Girls with tools: innovative approaches to vocational training in Uganda” in the digital edition as well as Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi’s article “The new Africa strategy of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development” and MADM alumna Pamela Cruz’s from Mexico article “Mexico wants to prevent teenage pregnancies – and sex education helps to make it happen” in April’s print edition.

Keep up the good work of contributing to the global debate of development and cooperation.

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PhD IDS News

05-04-2023

Congratulations Dr. Biswaranjan Tripura!

After successful defence of his PhD Thesis on Wednesday, 5th April 2023, Biswaranjan Tripura has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.).

Foto: Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. Biswaranjan Tripura, 
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein

His thesis with the title “Indigenous Peoples Negotiations, Everyday State and Development Experiences in Contemporary Tripura, Northeast India” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz and Prof. Dr. Bodhi S R.  Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.

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PhD IDS News

04-04-2023

Congratulations Dr. Hari Purna Tripura!

Foto: Prof. Dr. Shelley Feldman, Dr. Hari Purna Tripura, 
Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein

His thesis with the title “The Emergence of Indigenous Activists: The Indigeneity Questions of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz and Prof. Dr. Shelley Feldman. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.

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PhD IDS News

17-02-2023

Congratulations Dr. Adil!

After the successful defence of his PhD Thesis on Thursday, 9 February 2023 Abdullah Adil has been awarded the degree of a Doctor in Management and Economics. He was enrolled as a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Management and Economics and was an associate member of the PhD IDS-programme at IEE.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein and Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer supervised Mr. Adil’s theses on "The impact of higher education on the employment status and on earnings in the labor market of Afghanistan", Jun. Prof. Dr. Sanne Kruse-Becher chaired the oral exam.

 
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PhD IDS News

07-12-2022

Congratulations Dr. Wright!

After successful defence of his PhD Thesis on Tuesday 6 December 2022 Will Wright has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.).

Foto: Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Heintze, Dr. Will Wright, Prof. Dr. Pierre Thielbörger

His thesis with the title " Norm Clusters of Non-State Armed Groups: Mapping and Understanding the Limits of Warfare as Understood by Non-State Armed Groups " was supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Heintze and Prof. Dr. Pierre Thielbörger. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.

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13-10-2022

Congratulations Dr. Holzberg!

 After successful defence of her PhD Thesis on Tuesday 11 October 2022, Britta Holzberg has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.).

Foto: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein (IEE managing director), Dr. Britta Holzberg, Prof. Dr. Inge Hutter (ISS Rector), Prof. Dr. Peter Knorringa

Her thesis with the title "Decent Work in Textiles and Garment Production: Analysing the formation of glo-cal perspectives and practices in Egypt and Jordan" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Uta Wilkens, RUB, and Prof. Peter Knorringa, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

The public defence was held in The Hague, and the PhD degree has been awarded to Britta Holzberg under the joint PhD agreement between the ISS and the IEE, which has been signed in 2014.

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MADM News

07-09-2022

Welcome to MADM 2022 intake

On 5 September 2022, the new Bochum group of MA in Development Management students started their studies. For the formal opening and the opening of the 2022 summer school the students of the MADM at UWC also arrived at the IEE.

During the next 4 weeks both groups will follow a Summer School programme which includes coursework in Statistical Methods, a trip to Berlin, a weekend seminar Intercultural Communication and Teambuilding, and sessions with external experts representing German organisations working in the field of development cooperation.

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MADM News

08-06-2022

Extraordinary DAAD Scholarship Opportunity for Students Fleeing the War in Ukraine

The MA in Development Management at Ruhr University Bochum is one of the programmes included in the recently published extraordinary DAAD call for scholarship applications. The Master Scholarship Programme for students from the Ukraine as well as from countries of the DAC list fleeing the war in Ukraine to continue/complete their studies in Development-Related Postgraduate Courses is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

(Update: Application deadline for eligible applicants was 30 June 2022.)

The full call for applications is available here.

Information regarding application requirements of the MA in Development Management and the documents to be submitted are available here.