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René Grotenhuis

René Grotenhuis

René Grotenhuis is Chairman of SID-Netherlands and researcher at Utrecht University where he focuses on the role of civil society within the institutions of the globalizing world. Previously Grotenhuis was the director of Cordaid, the Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid, in The Hague, the Netherlands. Mr Grotenhuis gained experience in the field of development cooperation initially as a policy officer and later as a member of the executive board of several Dutch development organizations (until 1998).He is currently president of the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE).Mr Grotenhuis studied theology at the University of Utrecht. He has experience in pastoral care and feels closely involved with the diaconal aspects of the Catholic church.

Populism, the West and the ‘rest’

The victory of the Tea Party in the United States, the referenda in Switzerland on the ban of minarets and the deportation of convicted foreigners, the huge success of Thilo Sarrazin in Germany, who argued that Germany was compromising itself in his book Deutschland schafft sich ab, the French actions against the Roma people, the victory of the new right-wing party in Sweden, the rise of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands – like it or not, these developments have all but buried traditional ways of thinking and shaped a new political landscape in the West.

Rene Grotenhuis: An overarching goal for development cooperation

Many of the contributions to the debate on the report ‘Less pretension, more ambition’ have concentrated on the organizationally oriented recommendations of the WRR

Rene Grotenhuis: Precies kijken naar ontwikkeling en armoedebestrijding
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