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iobua.bsky.social
Institute of Development Policy, @UAntwerpen.be, Belgium | Multidisciplinary academic research, education, partnerships, political engagement 👉 https://uantwerpen.be/iob
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📣 New IOB Working Paper from the Policy Supporting Programme (PSP) 'Social Protection and Inclusive Growth’ (SPRING): "Note de synthèse sur la couverture santé universelle et la protection sociale" 👉 medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/b...

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📊 Politics of Data & Digital Development Seminar Series (hybrid) 🔍 What do stats really reveal? A deep dive into Brazil’s data visuals & their impact. 🗓 28 Feb | 14:00 CET 🎙 Alexandre de Paiva Rio Camargo | 💬 Lucas Page Pereira Register👉 iob-online-application.com/machform/vie... #Brazil #Brasil

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📊 Politics of Data & Digital Development Seminar Series (hybrid) 🔍 What do stats really reveal? A deep dive into Brazil’s data visuals & their impact. 🗓 28 Feb | 14:00 CET 🎙 Alexandre de Paiva Rio Camargo | 💬 Lucas Page Pereira Register👉 iob-online-application.com/machform/vie... #Brazil #Brasil

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📣 New IOB Working Paper from the Policy Supporting Programme (PSP) 'Social Protection and Inclusive Growth’ (SPRING): "Note de synthèse sur la couverture santé universelle et la protection sociale" 👉 medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/b...

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Ali Kony was supposed to succeed his father Joseph Kony at the helm of the LRA. He acted as the LRA's 'foreign affairs minister', but decided to escape.This is a story about Ali, and what the LRA still means today. My article in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

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Happy to have this piece on Ali Kony out with @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Once in line to succeed his dad Joseph Kony, and considered the 'Foreign Affairs' minister of the Lord's Resistance Army in charge of trading ivory and gold -he decided to escape. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

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📣New IOB Analysis and Policy Brief: The #M23 rebellion and three decades of prolonged conflict: what’s happening in #DRCongo, and how can the violence be stopped? Read it here: medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/4... #DRC #RDC #Kivu #Congo

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📣New IOB Analysis and Policy Brief: The #M23 rebellion and three decades of prolonged conflict: what’s happening in #DRCongo, and how can the violence be stopped? Read it here: medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/4... #DRC #RDC #Kivu #Congo

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Seminar 28 February 2025: How do statistical visualization practices construct knowledge and political order? 🔗 Register now: loom.ly/vHzY0eU #DataPolitics #DigitalDevelopment #Quantification #DataVisualization

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Seminar 28 February 2025: How do statistical visualization practices construct knowledge and political order? 🔗 Register now: loom.ly/vHzY0eU #DataPolitics #DigitalDevelopment #Quantification #DataVisualization

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📢 Enabel is now on Bluesky! Follow us here for updates on our projects, initiatives, and dedication to sustainable and inclusive international cooperation. Stay connected as we continue #EnablingChange and making a difference for communities worldwide. 🌍 #EnabelOnBluesky

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📣 Did you know that we've got a task group on research methods innovation? (more here: www.eadi.org/development-...) Currently, I's got three blog post out: 1) Story-Telling: A Method to Support Decolonising Knowledge for Development www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2096 🧵

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👋 We're excited to join you all here @bsky.app. Follow us for updates and information about #Belgium, our work in #Uganda and occasionally some fun content about Belgian fries and chocolates!

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My latest, for IPS journal : "The war we aren’t watching: Rwanda isn’t in eastern DRC because of an immediate threat — it’s there for the long haul" www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

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Check out this starter pack with accounts related to the University of Antwerp (Belgium): go.bsky.app/NQ9aNYZ

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📌 Next GLAC seminar: Tuesday 25 February at 12.00h CET. 🔍 Topic: Systematic review of co-production in community monitoring interventions across the African Great Lakes countries 👉 Register here: loom.ly/85EHx7w #africangreatlakes #datacollection #monitoringandevaluation

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📌 Next GLAC seminar: Tuesday 25 February at 12.00h CET. 🔍 Topic: Systematic review of co-production in community monitoring interventions across the African Great Lakes countries 👉 Register here: loom.ly/85EHx7w #africangreatlakes #datacollection #monitoringandevaluation

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Given #Uganda's recent statements with regards to Eastern #DRC and #M23, here's an @egmontinstitute.bsky.social briefing I wrote mid-last year about Uganda's ambiguous relation with M23 "Uganda’s Chess Game in Eastern DRC: With or Without M23?" www.egmontinstitute.be/ugandas-ches...

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Follow the University of Antwerp, now verified on Bluesky with its own domain name: @uantwerpen.be

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Follow the University of Antwerp, now verified on Bluesky with its own domain name: @uantwerpen.be

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Ik gaf een interview aan De Standaard, waarin ik m'n bezorgdheid uit over de schaal van wat er aan het gebeuren is in Oost-Congo. Ik praat vooral over de rol van Uganda, maar dit gaat over een poging tot bredere hertekening Grote Meren: https//www.standaa...

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My latest for @africa.theconversation.com on the worrying developments in Eastern DRC: coup rumours in Kinshasa, which is increasingly losing control; and Rwanda - & potentially Uganda -further expanding. International pressure key to avoid further escalation theconversation.com/m23-rebels-a...

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📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social & Erik Kennes "A Boomerang or a Turning Point for the EU in Central Africa?" #EU #DRC #Rwanda 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 it here 👉https://bit.ly/40U90ex

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Notre dernier article pour The Conversation sur la « corruption réelle » au sein de la police de la circulation en #Kinshasa #RDC theconversation.com/kinshasa-les...

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📣New IOB Working Paper by our #InfoCitizen PhD candidate Berta Fernández Nuez: "​Data and the sensorium, or what data can teach us about ourselves through ourselves: an inquiry on wellbeing, data justice & the human experience of knowing, sensing & being" medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/a...

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📣New IOB Working Paper by our #InfoCitizen PhD candidate Berta Fernández Nuez: "​Data and the sensorium, or what data can teach us about ourselves through ourselves: an inquiry on wellbeing, data justice & the human experience of knowing, sensing & being" medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/a...

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Job opportunity! The University of Antwerp is looking for a PhD candidate to work on language vitality among the Congolese diaspora in Belgium, supervised by Mieke Vandenbroucke and myself. It is more important than ever to put Congo and its people on the map! 🇨🇩 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

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Nieuwe opinie in De Standaard over de regionalisering van het conflict in Oost-Congo, en een 'back to the future' scenario van de Tweede Congolese oorlog: www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250...

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Explore financial tools shaping the SDGs & gain insights ahead of the 4th UN Finance for Development Conference! Join our summer school "Finance 4 Development" 23-27 June 2025 at @UAntwerpen.bsky.social 👉 www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-wi... #SustainableFinance #SDGs #SummerSchool #Antwerp

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Explore financial tools shaping the SDGs & gain insights ahead of the 4th UN Finance for Development Conference! Join our summer school "Finance 4 Development" 23-27 June 2025 at @UAntwerpen.bsky.social 👉 www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-wi... #SustainableFinance #SDGs #SummerSchool #Antwerp

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Fascinating presentation of Sam Hickey @globaldevinst.bsky.social at @iobua.bsky.social about his forthcoming book - with Indrajit Roy - on Global Development Politics.

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Een nieuwe opinie in @demorgen.be met Erik Kennes (Egmont) over het contraproductieve en doorgedreven transactionele Europese beleid in Centraal Afrika - en dan vooral Congo en Rwanda, en de noodzaak van politieke druk op Rwanda: www.demorgen.be/meningen/eur...

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New opinion with Erik Kennes @egmontinstitute.bsky.social in the @euobserver.com on the need for EU pressure on Rwanda: euobserver.com/africa/arce9...

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The crisis in the #DRC creates an uncomfortable challenge for the #EU. I argue that despite its critical mineral interests, the EU should be strict on #Rwanda to maintain credibility and encourage conflict de-escalation 👇

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Avec Erik Kennes, j'ai écrit un article d'opinion pour Le Soir, sur l'importance d'une pression de l'UE sur le Rwanda. t.co/k8YIB4vefz

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Gisteren sprak ik in VRT Laat over de escaltie in Oost-Congo: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/v...

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🔍 The EU renews €20M funding to Rwanda's military, stirring debates on its neutrality in the Rwanda-DR Congo conflict. Read @KristofTiteca's in-depth analysis. afriquexxi.info/L-Europe-fun... #EU #Rwanda #DRCongo #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations

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M23 now on its way to Bukavu.. #DRC

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📖 @kristoftiteca.bsky.social delves into the intricate history and present-day factors fueling the DRC-Rwanda conflict. His latest piece offers a comprehensive analysis of this pressing issue. 🌎 afriquexxi.info/RD-Congo-Rwa... #DRC #Rwanda #GlobalAffairs #PoliticalAnalysis #ConflictStudies

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Mon analyse sur la chute de Goma et l'absence d'action internationale ferme contre Rwanda pour @afriquexxi.bsky.social afriquexxi.info/RD-Congo-Rwa...

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Mon analyse sur le financement de l'UE pour #Rwanda - et les problêmes avec ce financement: afriquexxi.info/L-Europe-fun...

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This seminar has been postponed to a date yet to be determined due to the current situation in Goma, DRC.

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'Waarom kan Rwanda z'n gang blijven gaan in Oost-Congo?' M'n opinie in @de-standaard.bsky.social over Goma #DRC #Rwanda #M23 www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250...

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Onze beleidsmedewerker #RDCongo Sandrine Ekofo was samen met Sara Geenen van @iobua.bsky.social te gast in het programma De Ochtend op @radio1vrt.bsky.social Ze gaven duiding bij het escalerend conflict in Oost-Congo #Goma Beluister hun analyse. www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...

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