Latest Program News

MDP Summit 2012 - Dhaka, Bangladesh

Submitted by ashley on February 28, 2012 - 3:03pm

The Fourth Annual Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) Summit took place from Sunday, February 5, through Friday, February 10, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with the support of BRAC Development Institute.  Representatives (vice chancellors, rectors, deans, directors, and others) from all 22 MDP programs and 5 universities that are interested in developing MDP programs—al-Farabi

University of Arizona, USA Joins the Global Network

Submitted by ashley on February 14, 2012 - 6:26pm

University of Arizona is now accepting students for the term beginning this fall 2012. 

Emory MDP Student Wins CARE's Human Interest Story

Submitted by ashley on October 18, 2011 - 4:07pm

Emory University MDP Student Jenna Blumenthal placed first in the "Emergency" track of the 2011 CARE Human Interest Story, Photo, Video and Social Media Contest, with an essay based on her MDP summer internship in Benin, West Africa.

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Read the winning story on Emory's MDP Website

Development education: from conception to practice

Submitted by dgunewardena on September 16, 2011 - 1:23pm

How we conceive development shapes the type of development to which we give birth. Over the last 60 years the way development scholars have thought about development and its goals has evolved, though slowly.

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Read the full article by Dr Dileni Gunewardena, from the University of Peradeniya

TCD-UCD MDP class meet with Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda!

Submitted by ashley on August 18, 2011 - 2:20pm

TCD-UCD MDP class meet with  Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda!

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Go to President Kagame's website to read more

Columbia University's SIPA (home of CU's MDP) Graduation Ceremony

Submitted by ashley on May 23, 2011 - 11:44am

Former UN Secretary-General, Nobel Peace Laureate, and SIPA Global Fellow Kofi Annan addressed the Class of 2011 at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

In his remarks, Annan urged graduates to be active and engaged citizens, both at home and internationally, and said their diploma carries big responsibilities.

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Video - Kofi Annon addresses SIPA 2011 graduating class

2nd Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit (ISDS)

Submitted by akingon on May 12, 2011 - 2:29pm

From August 8 - 11th the University of Ibadan's Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV) will be hosting the 2nd Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit (ISDS).

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Go to the 2nd Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit page

17th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference

Submitted by ashley on January 11, 2011 - 7:14pm

The 17th annual conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) will be hosted by the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

The conference will take place May 8 to 10, 2011.

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Go to the International Sustainable Development Research Conference page

Mapping Peace, Protests, and Violence in Kenya

Submitted by ashley on January 10, 2011 - 2:49pm

You may have heard that on Wednesday, August 4, a historic event will be taking place: a referendum deciding the acceptance or rejection of a new constitution for Kenya.

The MDG decade: looking back and conditional optimism for 2015

Submitted by ashley on January 10, 2011 - 2:43pm

I have found the past decade deeply challenging and ultimately encouraging in my work to help realise the ambitious eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by world leaders in 2000. Much of this work has focused intensively on public health. Several of the MDGs are directly about health—reduced undernutrition, child and maternal survival, and control of pandemic diseases—while other goals depend on improved public health for their fulfilment—reduced poverty, gender equality, school completion, environmental sustainability.