CDA Collaborative Learning Projects

BOOK LAUNCH: Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice

Moderated by CDA’s Rhoads Allen

This timely new volume offers hard-won insights from the past 25+ years, plus future-focused perspectives for today’s challenges.

Register here 👉https://ow.ly/sor350W8yCe
to join swisspeace, ConnexUs, CDA, the co-editors and contributors, and share your thoughts and questions.

We promise an insightful and engaging exchange for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers alike.

Can’t join on 16 June? Click the registration link to share your questions or reflections and receive the event recording.

TWO YEARS OF WAR IN SUDAN: The world's largest humanitarian crisis continues with 25 million facing acute hunger and famine declared in 10 areas.

While international aid remains hampered, Sudanese emergency response rooms and mutual aid networks have become the backbone of relief efforts—running communal kitchens, supporting clinics, and evacuating civilians from danger zones.

These community-led initiatives have reached millions despite chronic funding shortages and threats from warring parties. As one volunteer said, "We survive together."

This article by the New Humanitarian shares how local communities are responding when the world has largely looked away: https://ow.ly/nuly50VFQCE

Eight stories about mutual aid to mark two years of war in Sudan The list highlights the scope of local volunteers’ work and the many challenges they face.

Friday: Ann Hendrix-Jenkins reflects on how the narrative surrounding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can help explain international development's power imbalances and offers suggestions on how to upend the pyramid by authentically partnering with people and communities in the spirit of global solidarity.

📖https://ow.ly/15n750VE2B3

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CDA’s From Where I Stand blog is a virtual learning platform to amplify the voices of those leading humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts in their own contexts. We're nearing our milestone 50th blog. Help us get there by contributing written or oral pieces in any language!"

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and… Supremacy, Neo-Colonialism, and International Development - CDA Collaborative Learning In this blog, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins reflects on how the narrative surrounding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can help explain international development's power imbalances and offers suggestions on how to upend the pyramid by authentically partnering with people and communities in the spirit of global sol...

🔥NEW BLOG: Bridgebuilding Effectiveness: Tools for Program Strategy and Design

📰https://ow.ly/k46K50VFQfp

Excited to share this insightful piece by Dr Dr. Allison K. Ralph and Dr Michelle Garred, exploring how US pro-democracy practitioners can leverage global peacebuilding tools to address polarization across identity differences.

Key insights:
• Contact between different groups can decrease prejudice, but effectiveness depends on conditions of equal status
• Two powerful tools from global peacebuilding—"Do No Harm" and the "Reflecting on Peace Practice Matrix"—offer practical frameworks for US bridgebuilding efforts
• Bridgebuilding is necessary but not sufficient for cohesive unity; programs must create linkages to socio-political levels for lasting impact

This blog provides concrete recommendations for funders and practitioners seeking to maximize effectiveness in this critical work. There truly "is no better moment to work together toward a just, cohesive unity in the United States."

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