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This year, for OxFID’s 5th Anniversary, the conference will ask:
Where Next? Finding New Paths and Shaping New Visions
Engaging with the Development Discourses of the 21st century:
How can the Internet enable Civil Society?
How do New Technologies affect Conflict?
Can Humanitarian Aid Prolong Wars?
A Keynote by Linda Polman
Is Famine just ‘the Predictable Result of a Broken System’?
How Realistic were the UN’s Millennium Development Goals? And what happens after 2015?
How do Human Rights Law and Global Development interact?
A Keynote Address by Geoffrey Robertson QC
Does our era demand a New Economics for Development?
A Panel of the UK’s leading economists, including DfID’s Chief Economist and Author Tim Harford
Is Private Business Initiative really the only way forward?
A Keynote Address by Richard Harvey, former CEO of AVIVA
What is the Climate for Development post-Arab Spring?
A Panel Discussion
CHECK OUT OUR FULL PROGRAMME! http://www.oxfid.org/programme2.html ;
A full weekend of keynotes, panels and workshops discussing and evaluating the new directions, challenges and solutions which are currently emerging in the field, with speakers such as acclaimed author Linda Polman, Human Rights Legal Expert Geoffrey Robertson QC, Chair of PZ Cussons and Patron of Concern Universal Richard Harvey, Dan Smith, Secretary General of International Alert, as well as representatives from the WHO, ChristianAid, ActionAid, Trickle Up and many many more!
And new features for OxFID this year 2012 include: development case study workshops, film screenings, a photography exhibition and a special focus on careers in development.
For more info go to our official website- www.oxfid.org
We hope to see you there!
The OxFID 2012 Team