Professional Development Programme
8th-13th February 2015, Brighton, UK
An understanding that the world is made up of an interconnected web of complex systems is at last creeping into development thinking and challenging the simplistic linear models that have for so long underpinned aid programmes. Ben Ramalingam’s book Aid on the Edge of Chaos, published last autumn, offers an in depth exploration of this whole new way of approaching aid and international cooperation. In addition, Ben and colleagues have just announced a six day course on Complex Adaptive Systems in Development which will take place in February 2015 in Brighton, UK. It has been developed to meet the needs of practitioners, researchers and policy makers working in development and humanitarian contexts. It offers them the opportunity to deepen their skills in the approaches, methods and tools employed by leading complex systems researchers.