In this presentation Dr Khalid Abu-Ismail will discuss ESCWA's World Development Challenges Report and its related background papers.

A panel discussion brings together BME academics and academics researching topics related to racism, (anti-) colonialism and professionals working on EDI matters at the DPIR.
Please join us for a panel discussion with subsequent reception in the Lecture Theatre of DPIR on Monday, 30 October at 2 pm.
Following the panel discussion, we will have a reception in the Common Room from 3.30 pm.

While existing scholarship has reckoned with the complex effects of civil conflict on women’s political, economic, and social participation, it does not account for local variation in women’s collective action after war. This paper investigates the effect of prewar institutional investments in women’s social leadership on whether and how women mobilize to confront shared community problems in the aftermath of conflict. I argue these investments strengthen ties between women and women’s group identity.

Biography of Henry Farrell:

What drives support for foreign aid? Drawing on multidisciplinary research, we argue that international status is a powerful yet neglected factor driving public opinion toward aid. Using an original survey experiment in the U.S., we show that the more Americans value their country’s international standing, the more they support the provision of foreign aid. Observationally, respondents are more supportive of aid the higher their reported need for national status—whose substantive impact is comparable to that of important factors traditionally considered in foreign aid research.

Adam Dean is an Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, his MSc from the London School of Economics, and his PhD from the University of Chicago.

His research focuses on the political economy of international trade, labour politics, and American Political Development. He teaches courses on
International Relations and International Political Economy. From 2014 to 2017 he taught at Middlebury College.