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Maarten van den Berg

Maarten van den Berg is senior editor of The Broker, an independent magazine on globalization and…

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Welcome to the Social Change blog

Maarten van den Berg | 28 June 2025

Today is a milestone for The Broker. We have just launched a new website and published the 25th issue of our magazine.

Today is a milestone for The Broker.We have just published the 25th issue of our magazine, featuring a 16-page special report on the future of EU-ACP relations. And, we have a brand-new website!

The look & feel of our new website – pleasing to the eye, we think – is not all that has changed. The content of our site is now organized according to The Broker’s core themes. There are five to start with. Social change one of them.

Each theme has a designated page on our website, with related articles, blogs and discussions hosted by The Broker, and an ‘editor’s blog’ that keeps you abreast of resources and events from around the world.

In this editor’s blog I will try to keep track of, and comment on, the latest research, publications, conferences and current affairs in the field of social change – with specific reference to approaches informed by complexity theory. I hope it can become an entry point for exchange between those of you who work in this area. Feel free to feed me with suggestions about publications, blogs or events that deserve to be highlighted – please use [email protected].