Our EDP member Tina Freyburg joined the annual agenda meeting of the Network on Democratisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance (DDLGN) of the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC) on January 24, 2019 in Bern, Switzerland. In this meeting, the annual review of 2018 as well as the outlook on 2019 were presented and discussed.

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Our network member Solveig has received four awards for her excellent teaching skills by the Faculty of Law, Social Sciences and Economics at the University of Erfurt. The “Teaching Excellence Awards” are given to lecturers and professors of the university who receive the highest scores in students’ evaluation.

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On February 7 and 8, our network members met at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt for a final workshop under the Leibniz Association’s funding scheme. During the meeting, we took stock of the exciting last four years and discussed the …

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Dr. Prakash Bhattarai, Director of the Centre for Social Change in Nepal and a former PRIF guest researcher by invitation of the EDP Network, released his first publication as part of his research on Nepal’s relationship with its neighbor India: “Negotiating Between Unequal Neighbours: India’s Role in Nepal’s Recent Constitution-Making Process” (PRIF Working Paper).

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Under the direction of two of our network members, Sonja Grimm (University of Konstanz / University of Basel) and Annika Elena Poppe (PRIF), the EDP network organized a workshop on January 17–18 on “Why to fight against dictatorship at high personal costs? Studying political activism and its leadership in autocracies” at the Peace Research Institute (PRIF) in Frankfurt.

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