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Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas and the Poverty Industry

Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits to conduct research on EU capabilities in conflict prevention and on new

New publication edited by Helen Hintjens, Jimmy Maguru, Florence Nyakaisiki and Jackson Odong

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