4 June: Is Development Aid Nonsense?
Transnational Insitute - 31.05.2010 21:37
Organised by the Transnational Institute (TNI)
Friday, 4 June 2010
20:00 – 22:00hrs
Salon, de Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
Entrance Free
Is Development Aid Nonsense?
PANEL:
Prof Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Chair), contributor to WRR reports and
studies on the future of Dutch development cooperation; Professor of
global studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa
Barbara
Maarten Brouwer (NL), Ambassador for development cooperation, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
Dot Keet (South Africa), Alternative Information & Development Centre,
Cape Town; key co-ordinator of the continent-wide Africa Trade Network
(ATN)
Praful Bidwai (India), Indian climate specialist, former senior editor of
the Times of India, author of “From What Now to What Next: Reflections on
three decades of international politics and development” (Dag Hammarskjöld
Foundation)
Marcos Arruda (Brazil), Director of Políticas Alternativas Para o Cone Sul
(PACS), active member of the Brazilian Network for the Integration of the
Peoples working on issues related to NAFTA, Mercosur and the World Trade
Organisation.
Debate about the future of Dutch development cooperation is again picking
up pace ahead of the general elections in June. Opinions amongst political
parties vary depending on their political orientation but no one seems to
be asking the countries in the South about their needs.
The Transnational Institute is bringing Southern voices into the debate. A
panel from some of the rising countries of the South will discuss how
Dutch aid could usefully contribute to more sustainable development, in
particular building civil society in the south as the means of addressing
structural poverty.
The session will be chaired by Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse,
contributor to WRR reports and studies on the future of Dutch development
cooperation. He is author of 15 books and specialist in development
studies and cultural studies and globalisation.
The panellists will be available for interviews on 4 June. To arrange an
interview or for more information, please contact  nina.brenjo@tni.org or
+31 65 491 8960
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international network of
activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems
such as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalisation, social
injustice and environmental degradation.
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