CUiD is a student-run society whose mission is to provide a non-partisan platform to raise awareness on international development issues and to promote the open discussion of them.
We aim to motivate students to discuss, debate and take action on issues in international development, such as poverty, global health, climate change, and education - to name just a few. We do this by organising speaker events, panel debates and discussion fora that stimulate dialogue between students, academics and development professionals from developed and developing countries, and that encourage students to question assumptions and opinions.
Our termly magazine, Vision, provides another platform on which students can explore issues that interest them and voice their views, as does the Cambridge chapter of the U8, through its events and its research projects.
CUiD was set up in 2005 by Sheena Sumaria. We are a member of the Humanitarian Centre and the Cambridge Hub, and are also a founding member of the U8 Global Student Partnership for Development.
You can find out more about our activities on this site, or by going to our website, <a href="www.cuid.org">here</a>.
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Posted by Kelly, Friday 27th February 2009 @ 8:38am "Hotel Rwanda" (2004, directed by Terry George) tells the story of the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. It documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees, by granting them shelter in the besieged Hotel des Mille Collines.
The film was nominated for multiple awards, including Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. Posted by Kelly, Friday 27th February 2009 @ 8:33am Meg worked in Byumba Diocese (now retired) where she developed and ran a training programme for lay church leaders. She has a long family history of involvement in Rwanda and has written two books - 'After The Locusts' and 'Rwanda: The land God forgot?'
Posted by Kelly, Friday 27th February 2009 @ 8:30am In this talk, Lindsay Scorgie will be speaking on the international nature of conflict in Central Africa. In particular, she will focus on the links between the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the continuing conflicts in the Congo. Lindsay is a PhD student in Politics at Cambridge. She is focusing on international responses to the conflict in the Great Lakes (mainly the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi). She did her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, and a Masters at the London School of Economics. After graduating from there, she lived in West Africa for the best part of a year, working for a peacekeeping research institute in Ghana. After that, she worked as a research consultant at the International Peace Academy in New York, studying the UN's activities in African civil conflicts.
Posted by Kelly, Friday 27th February 2009 @ 8:29am FREE ENTRY AND DRINKS DEALS ALL NIGHT
Following the staggering success of our last salsa social, CUiD are proud to present another night of latin tunes, sultry dancing and delicious cocktails.
Featuring up and coming Cambridge DJ John Gomez, off the back of some epic sets at Clare Cellars and Kambar that had the crowd chanting his name. A veteran of the Madrid clubbing scene, he'll add his own spanish touch spinning tunes from the latin world and beyond.
Salsa experts and beginners alike are invited to join us at 9.30 for a lesson from Jane, a local salsa teacher. If you've been involved in CUiD for ages, would like to know more or just fancy a dance and a drink come on down.
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http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=50576657851&ref=ts Posted by Kelly, Sunday 22nd February 2009 @ 9:51am Should France be prosecuted for its role in the Rwandan genocide? In the last of this term's series of CUID open debates, we'll be looking at the factors leading up to the Rwandan genocide, and what role France played in the genocide. We'll then take a broader look at the role the international community plays in war situations in the developing world. CUiD open debates are informal discussion groups which meet every other Thursday at the Cafe Project on Jesus Lane to talk about development issues. All are welcome, and participants are encouraged to share their views with the rest of the group. No prior knowledge required! This term, our open debates are led by Manpreet Singh, a 5th year medical student at Cambridge. He spent his third year at MIT researching appropriate technologies for the developing world. While there, he was part of a team that won a World Bank grant to work on the links between indoor air pollution, fuel use, and respiratory infections. He was one of the student organisers of the International Development Design Summit in 2007 and 2008. Previous items
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