Global Development Experiment with Fron Nahzi
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsTwo questions most of today’s generation are asking related to international development: What happened? And, did it work? Join me as I talk to leading human rights activists, women's rights activists, conflict resolution experts, and “democratic contractors” who built the current international development model to discuss the successes and failures of their efforts over the past several decades, and the implications on future work in the field.
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Ep.: 20. COVID 19 Pause
July 11, 2020 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.1 MBGlobal Development Experiment will resume broadcasting once a cure has been found for COVID19.
Ep.: 19 Fred Abrahams: COVID19 and Human Rights.
May 04, 2020 01:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBIn response to the pandemic, many governments across the globe are increasing the use of surveillance, silencing critics, denying their citizens accurate information on the virus, and failing to provide basic health services to their marginalized communities. Join me as Fred Abrahams, Associate Director for Program, Human Rights Watch, talks about holding governments accountable in their response to the COVID19 pandemic.
Ep.: 18 Cybersecurity: Why its become a daily responsibility.
April 16, 2020 18:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBAs the online fight between open and closed societies intensifies, the need for effective cybersecurity strategies from individuals to countries has become ever more vital. Kiersten Todt and Roger Cressey, two leading global authorities on cybersecurity, take us behind the matrix to expose the attackers, and provide strategies for NGOs, businesses, and governments on how to counter the cyber threats.
Ep.: 17 COVID19 impact on international development
April 07, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBHow will COVID19 impact future international development efforts? Does the united international response to COVID19 provide a test run on how we can possibly come together to address such long term global issues as climate change? Join Jason Swantek, Senior Contributing Editor to GDE, and me for the discussion.
Ep.: 16 How Brazilians Are Combating Corruption.
March 22, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBAn investigation into a Brazilian car wash that was being used for money laundering led to the discovery of Latin America’s largest bribery ring. By the time the soapsuds settled, billions were discovered to have been paid out to Presidents and senior government officials across the continent for government contracts. Frustrated with the lack of political will to indict the culprits, Michael Freitas Mohallem, a young Brazilian lawyer, led a country-wide civic movement to put an end to the co...
Ep.: 15 Chasing the Money: How Journalists Are Combating Global Corruption
February 17, 2020 02:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBHow does Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its global network of editors and journalist fight global financial corruption? Drew Sullivan, co-founder of OCCRP, discusses how a network of investigative journalists expose the rich and powerful's illegal gains, and why journalism needs to be reinvented not only to better combat global corruption, but also to better serve the public.
Ep. 14: Georgia: Between Western Dreams and Russian Rubles
December 23, 2019 02:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBGeorgia has become a battleground between the West vs Russia, between rule by oligarch vs rule of law. Levan Kakhishvili, young Oxford educated Georgian political scientist, provides a balanced insight to the current political turmoil, and just how Western are the political parties vying for control of the State. Levan Kakhishvili is a Doctoral Fellow in Political Science at Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS), Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg. Levan received his MSc in R...
Ep. 13: Fatos Lubonja
November 18, 2019 20:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBIs Europe becoming more like Albania? Fatos Lubonja, Albania’s leading intellectual, and award winning writer and human rights activist, discusses how Albania’s post-democratic challenges are a microcosm of the political and social trends sweeping through Europe. Join me as we discuss Fukuyam, and Huntington to better understand Albania’s “transition” from a closed society to a country on the brink of becoming a kleptocracy.
Ep. 12: Andrej Nosov
November 10, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBTearing down ethnic divisions and bringing war criminals to justice. Andrej Nosov, a young artist and political activist based in Belgrade, defies the Balkan historical taboos to lead a series of social and cultural movements that unites former Yugoslav war torn youth against national, ethnical, and sexual orientation stereotypes. Join me as Andrej discusses the ongoing battle he and his young colleagues in the Balkans face in trying to right the past while addressing today’s social ills.
Ep. 11: IDASA: The Rise and Fall of Africa's Leading Think Tank
October 14, 2019 01:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB“Grow big or go home!” Did the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA), leading global think tank that was instrumental in bringing down the apartheid system, become a victim of its own success? Join me as I talk to Paul Graham, former CEO of IDASA, on the challenges the think tank faced in trying to manage the expectations of the communities they were serving and the bureaucratic demands of their donors. For more information on IDASA and its history, please visit Stel...
Ep. 10: Daniel Fazakes
October 03, 2019 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBSocial media driven fake news, disinformation, propaganda - how it works and how can civil society counter it? Daniel Fazakes co-founder of Bakamo, a leading London based social media monitoring company, discusses his in-depth studies on how social media driven disinformation campaigns were used and influenced the French elections, migration debate in the EU, and in the Russian and Ukrainian conflict.
Ep. 9: Vukasin Petrovic
July 31, 2019 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBOtpor leader reflects on how the movement brought down Milosevic. Can such a movement be replicated? What does it mean to apply strategy to international development? Can human rights become part of mainstream culture?
Ep. 8: Lesley Abdela
July 16, 2019 20:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBFrom conflict resolutions to positions of power, how (and how many) women participate is key. When are gender quotas effective? What are the challenges the current generation of women's rights activists face?
Ep. 7: Aleksander Dardeli
July 03, 2019 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBWhat assumptions did the international development field get wrong 30 years ago? What is the role of the private sector in international development?
Ep. 6: Fred Abrahams
May 24, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBThirty years of documenting human rights violations across the globe and bringing to justice war criminals. His biggest challenge yet maybe the declining interest in human rights, especially by Western governments. What does he propose to do?
Ep. 5: Delina Fico
May 24, 2019 03:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBDo we need to go back to the 90s -- or at least reinstate the levels of investment in civil society development of decades past? What makes the people who run civil society development projects successful?
Ep. 4: Jason Swantek
May 24, 2019 02:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MBIs there a right way to enter the development field? Is it possible for massive bureaucracies to learn from mistakes and respond to priorities in the field?
Ep. 3: Sibongile Ndashe
May 24, 2019 01:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBHow ought equal rights for women be pursued in the face of systematic repression? Can court systems and existing institutions be used to advance justice?
Ep. 2: Tony Borden
May 24, 2019 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBJournalists for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) are divided by language and borders but united by their commitment to objective reporting. What makes the IWPR model transferable from one conflict zone to another? Are we concerned or excited by the changes being driven by social media? Or both?
Ep. 1: Roelf Meyer
May 23, 2019 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBCan the South African transitional justice experience be exported? When should international actors step away from mediating a conflict?
Ep. 0: Fron Nahzi - Purpose of GDE 2.0
May 23, 2019 22:00 - 4 minutes - 2.8 MBPurpose of GDE is to discuss the complex questions left behind by the last two decades of development projects, and to forge more effective and lasting impact from initiatives moving forward.