Back to globalism, starting at home
Willemijn Verkoren | 05 February 2025The criticism and questions facing INGOs are major. Michael Edwards’ description of the gap between today’s ‘thick’ problems and INGOs’ increasingly ‘thin’ solutions is spot on.
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Willemijn Verkoren: Net als het interessant wordt…
Willemijn Verkoren | 21 January 2025Het WRR-rapport Minder Pretentie, Meer Ambitie is een goed startpunt voor verdere discussie over de toekomst van ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Het brengt noodzakelijke nuance aan in het debat over het nut van ontwikkelingshulp. Het rekent af met eufe...
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Civic Driven Change
Willemijn Verkoren | July 22, 2025The Civic Driven Change (CDC) initiative recently organized a workshop on the practice of CDC, which aims to develop a new, citizen-driven approach to development and social change. This overview of the event also links to reports from each of the...
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People´s power
Willemijn Verkoren | December 02, 2024In ‘Deep democracy’ (The Broker 10), a new approach to development – civic driven change (CDC) – was presented. The Broker asked people all over the world to participate in a debate on CDC. This article summarizes their responses.
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Debating complexity
Willemijn Verkoren | July 28, 2025In his article ‘Connecting the dots’ (The Broker 7), Alan Fowler presented complexity theory as a potential approach to development thinking., one that integrates the ideas of Jeffrey Sachs, Roger Ridell, Paul Collier and William Easterly, to name...
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Dr. Willemijn Verkoren is Head of the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM) at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Willemijn studied International Relations and History at the Universities of London and Amsterdam and obtained her PhD in International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In her work she focuses on the relationship between development, conflict and peacebuilding and on the local-international dynamics of peace- and statebuilding intervention. In this context, she is interested in civil society, governance relations and global perspectives on conflict and peace.