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Want a career in International Development? Get real.

By Nathan ⋅ July 25, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Highlights, recommendations, lessons and links from this week’s Positive Change International Careers Conference at LSE.

It’s World Population Day

By Nathan ⋅ July 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Just in case you were thinking it had been at least a week since the last World Something Day, along comes World Population Day. Falling as it does on a Sunday and the day of the World Cup Final, World Population Day is naturally bound to attract a lot of attention.

Development reading

By Nathan ⋅ February 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been gathering links to blogs and websites covering international development and aid – the list is growing all the time but here so far is a selection of regularly updated sites with interesting content:

To hell with good intentions

By Nathan ⋅ February 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

For most of my life, all I knew of Ivan Illich was that he was the was the author of Tools for Conviviality, particularly this excerpt, which was ironically his restating of a comment by Swedish economist Staffan Linder: …there is a strong tendency for us to over-commit the future, so that when the future [...]

The real Na’vi

By Nathan ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Survival International is campaigning to raise awareness of the plight of the Dongria Kondh of India’s Orissa state, who they say face the destruction of their land and livelihood, including their sacred mountain. British mining company Vedanta Resources plan to dig an open-pit bauxite mine on the Dongria Kondh’s sacred Niyamgiri mountain, in a situation [...]

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