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MASTERS IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE

Training future leaders in sustainable development

The challenges of poverty, population, health, conservation, and human rights around the world are interconnected, requiring sustained and comprehensive interventions. Recognising the need for a new approach, the MacArthur Foundation is supporting the first global initiative to provide rigorous, cross-disciplinary professional training for future leaders in sustainable development. The Masters degree in Development

Practice (MDP) is a new two-year programme offering world-class training and education in development practice at graduate level. The MDP will be delivered jointly by TCD and UCD in collaboration with the National University of Rwanda, Realizing Rights, Trócaire, Kimmage Development Studies Centre and other partners.

Funded by the MacArthur Foundation,

the MDP is part of a global network of Masters degrees in Development Practice, headquartered at Columbia University in the United States. The first intake of students will be in September 2010, with a pre-entry intensive training programme held in August/September 2010.

https://naturalscience.tcd.ie/ postgraduate

TRINITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

Trinity helping Ireland make its contribution to the developing world

There is growing focus in TCD, concentrating research and teaching on issues related to international development. This is motivated not only by the potential for making a contribution to poverty reduction, and to sustainable human development worldwide, but also by the intellectual challenge of understanding the processes that are involved. TIDI’s task is to manage and promote

Trinity’s expanded engagement with research and teaching on subjects related to international development. TIDI has the aim of making possible: a substantial increase in the quality and quantity of research on international development across a wide range of disciplines; a substantial increase in the number and enthusiasm of students at all levels and from both North and South of the globe to learn and undertake research about international development issues; a deepening and increased number of teaching and research partnerships between Trinity and universities and other institutions in low- and middle-income countries; increased understanding by the public, Government and other stakeholders of global development issues and the existing state of knowledge.

TIDI is also a stakeholder in a project

developing the International Doctoral School in Global Health in partnership with leading African universities.

www.global-health.tcd.ie/indigo

For more details on upcoming events, please see www.tcd.ie/

tidi/news_and_events.php

TIDI

In collaboration with other Schools and Departments in College, TIDI run a series of lectures and seminars throughout the year. A sample of these include:

• Development Effectiveness:

Irish NGOs Working Together in Diversity

• The Truth About Trade: the Real

Impact of Trade Liberalisation

• A Fairer Global Tax System:

Developing World and National Perspectives

• The Opportunities of Multiculturalism

• What is Happening in Gaza?

MEPs’ and TDs’ Eyewitness Accounts

• The Buck Stops over There?

Globalization and Electoral Accountability

• Inclusive or Exclusive

Globalisation: Asian Investment and Zambia’s Economy

• Non-western Donors and the

‘Gift’: The Changing Landscape of Foreign Aid

• The Ethics of Climate Change • Scales of Prostitution:

International Governmentalities and Interwar India

• The Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Treaty: An Irish Perspective

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