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Developing World Challenges

Keeping Africa Small
Sponsored by Economic and Social Research
Council and Newcastle University

ESRC Festival of Social Science
Newcastle University
Edited recording of a debate held as part of the one day workshop The Great Debate: Developing World Challenges organised by The Great Debate and WORLDwrite held in March 2008 at Newcastle University. Debate filmed and edited by Chew On It Productions.

Speakers:
Ceri Dingle, Director of WORLDwrite and Chew on it Productions
Barry K.Gills, Professor of Global Politics, Newcastle University
Kim Tan, Campaigns Officer for Oxfam UK
Chair: Caspar Hewett

Keeping Africa Small is a documentary made by Chew On It Productions that examines Western NGO practices in Africa, claiming that, however well meaning they may be, NGO programmes often annoy everyone from fishermen to shanty town inhabitants. Click Here for film web site and trailer.

Thanks to Ian Foster and Andy Hirst for filming and editing this debate.

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WORLDwrite

WORLDwrite is an education charity with a difference. Its mission is to challenge prejudices and stereotypes by giving young people a unique opportunity to see the world from a fresh perspective through a first hand investigative experience. The charity helps create links between young people across the globe, encouraging them to learn from their peers, expand their horizons and champion the aspirations of newfound friends.

WORLDwrite runs programmes with young people across the UK and has exchange partnerships with Ghana, Brazil, Uganda, South Africa, India, Germany and Japan.

The WORLDwrite Crew

website: www.worldwrite.org.uk

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Links

The Great Debate: Developing World Challenges
Proceedings of the First Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of DSE2: The Second Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of DSE3: The Third Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment

WORLDwrite
Keeping Africa Small web site and trailer
I'm a Subsistence Farmer ... Get Me Out of Here! web site and trailer
Think Big web site and trailer
A Letter to Geldof web site and trailer

Oxfam
Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability
Friends of the Earth
Institute of Ideas
Supporters of Nuclear Energy (SONE)
Scientists for Global Responsibility
Woudhuysen: Thinking about the future

To Build or Not to Build Proceedings by Caspar Hewett and Mo Lovatt
The New Moral Code - Environmentalism in the 21st Century by David O'Toole
That's the limit by Roger Higman
Our Legacy of Nuclear Waste by Aidan Burton
Reflections on Policy in Republic of South Africa by Caspar Hewett, June 2003
Where there's the will, there's water by Ceri Dingle and Esme Young

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