The ISS Diversity and Inclusion Team aims to embrace and support every member within the broader ISS community of students, staff and researchers to develop the necessary knowledge and skills to value all members and their contributions in research, education and work practices.
Forming a compassionate community
Our commitments
- CREATE VISIBILITY Create visibility of the issues of diversity and inclusion to help the larger community embrace these issues and eventually normalize them
- ISSUE BROKERING Receive and translate issues so that the larger community can become properly informed and address them accordingly
- COMMUNITY FORUM Create a community forum where ISS members can start engaging with each other and address diversity and inclusion issues
- STUDENT VOICE Welcome and facilitate student initiatives and associations regarding diversity and inclusion
- COMPASSIONATE ACTION Encouraging community members to make informed, compassionate and diligent action to enhance the ISS community
- PROVIDE RESOURCES Help facilitate access to resources that can enhance diversity and inclusion knowledge and skill development
Our work in inclusion as a community
The Diversity and Inclusion Team is currently working on, or developing, the following tasks:
- Inclusivity workshops with faculty, staff and PhD researchers
- Community-led dialogue and forums
- Alumni-led research on diversity and inclusion at ISS
- Creative videos and storytelling from the ISS Community
ISS carries a legacy of civic engagement and social justice-oriented research within our community of staff, faculty, researchers, MA students and alumni. Here are some of the ways we are engaged relating to diversity and inclusion:
Opinions, research and pedagogy
- ISS Blog, devoted to writings on Global Development and Social Justice
- Civic Innovation: scholars-activists committed to social justice
Local engagement in The Hague
- Documenting the experiences of migrants in The Hague during pandemic
- Stories of local and international solidarity with local organizations
- Amplifying the stories and experiences of immigrant and low-income communities amid the pandemic
- Exploring the trajectories and experiences of the local Habesha community
Community Activism
We invite you to learn about diversity and inclusion topics through some of the voices apart of the ISS community:
- ‘I cannot understand your question’: challenges and opportunities of including persons with disabilities in participatory evaluation by Gersán Vásquez Gutiérrez (2020)
- #MeToo and the need for safe spaces in academia by Brenda Rodríguez, Bruna Martinez and Vira Mistry (2020)
- Positioning Academia | Creating a safe haven at ISS for scholars at risk by Amrita Chhachhi and Wendy Harcourt (2019)
- Epistemic Diversity | Understanding epistemic diversity: decoloniality as research strategy by Olivia U. Rutazibwa
- Epistemic Diversity | “I am where I think”: research and the task of epistemic diversity by Marina Cadaval and Rosalba Icaza (2018)
Diversity & Inclusion News
ISS Diversity and Inclusion team
- Email address
- diversity@iss.nl
If you feel led to be a part of the Diversity and Inclusion Team, have questions, or would like to get in touch, email the team.