María Eugenia Bedoya Arias is one of the three ISS MA Research Paper Award winners for the academic year 2011-2012.

The other two award winning papers are written by Martha Jane Robbins and Madhura Chakraborty.

Comment by one of the jury members

“This historical-anthropological critique of power and violence in Colombia is well-executed and contributes to a paradigm shift towards interdisciplinary academic research across critical development studies, political and ecological anthropology, and labour history. Capitalising on the aesthetic, emotional, and political resonance of Gabriel García Márquez’s magnum opus, the author weaves a cogent and urgent narrative of the power dynamics and systematic violence that scarred a century of collective memory. This creative framework lends the author’s research on the banana republic and the rush for green gold a refreshing perspective, one which persuasively changes the scholarly landscape from standard political sociology, anthropology and history into the beginning of new heights in the analysis and understanding of development.” — Comments by external juror Dr. Cissie Fu, Director of Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Theory, Leiden University College, The Hague.

Article by Max Spoor in the journal Sociologia Ruralis

ISS students present research finding on the impact of social media on power.

WTO Secretary-General, Pascal Lamy, African Development Bank Director, Donald Kaberuka and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen spoke at the Conference 'The Future of International Cooperation' at ISS Thursday 7 March 2013.

The conference committee invites researchers from relevant disciplines to submit and to present their scholarly works at ICID 2013.

On 7 March ISS hosted a conference on the future of international cooperation with the Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, the Director General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, and many other leading speakers.