In the Spotlight
Hivos is changing course
Persistent global problems such as growing social inequality, corrupt, incompetent governments and energy scarcity in poor and emerging countries demand a new approach. Hivos therefore feels that now more than ever is the time for innovative solutions to achieve social change. We plan to do this hand in hand with civil society, universities and companies. One of th...
Events
Iraq 10 years after
Clingendael Institute, The HagueMonday 27 May 2013, 09.30-17.00 It has been 10 years since Iraq was invaded by a US led coalition and the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled. The invasion led to one of the most violent periods in Iraqi history, during which the present Iraq was shaped. International involvement placed a heavy mark on the process of state and nation building in the country. On...
Themes
Latest update from “Future Calling”
Report of Expert Round Table on Dutch aid context
Two months ago, an expert round table on the Dutch aid context took place at the Nutshuis in The Hague. Coordinator of the Hivos Knowledge Programme, Josine Stremmelaar, took part in this expert me...
Videos
Video of panel discussion on Middle East's Dignity Revolutions
Last February, the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut hosted our knowledge officer Kawa Hassan for a discussion on the Middle East's dignity revolutions. Prior to the Middle East’s recent revolutions, the relationship between Western donors and regional actors was based on an overestimation of the state and an underestimation of Arab societies as a viable partner for reform...
News
Syria's Uprising: sectarianism, regionalisation, and state order in the Levant
Written by Steven HeydemannAs the Syrian revolution enters its third year, the risks to regional stability are escalating. Violence has spilled over all of Syria's borders. The conflict has elevated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, threatening the 1990 Taif settlement that ended 15 years of civil war. It has sharpened ethnic and sectarian frictions in Iraq and engulfed southern Turkey. It has hei...
Publications
Strenghtening agricultural biodiversity and smallholder livelihoods
At the inception of the Agrobiodiversity@knowledged programme, the Resilience...
Booklaunch
Booklaunch of the Long Road to Social Security
Partners
An alternative take on cyber-utopianism
Video by Evgeny Morozov, on RSA Animate
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