Capacity
Building
We see the
central aspect of "capacity building" as a shared effort among all
those involved in the programme to develop collectively our capacity for
conducting excellent research around the important set of questions that
drive our programme.
PhD Studentships
In South Africa, the CSP is funding two PhD Scholarships at the
University of Witswatersrand. In India, negotiations about possible
PhD studentships are underway with the Department of Political Science at
Jawaharla Nehru University in Delhi.
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Faculty
exchanges and course development
In South Africa, a capacity
building programme will include support for course and faculty development
at Wits. The link with DESTIN/LSE will lend support to the development of a
masters programme in development studies.
Despite impressive institutional change in terms of student profile and
course offerings, the legacy of apartheid inequities means that the over
3,000 full-time staff members at Wits remain overwhelmingly white.
With this in mind the LSE-Wits link seeks to support the development of
young black academics and researchers and the possibility of training more
young scholars from the rest of the continent.
In India, as part of an ongoing programme of capacity building in
the Asia Development Research Institute, and for younger scholars in Bihar
and MP, 'Summer/Winter Schools' will be conducted by DESTIN and CSP staff
and ADRI, covering areas of theory and method in development studies and
applied social science.
The first of these 'Summer/Winter Schools' will be run in Patna in December
2001. Future workshops may be held in the summer in Bhopal as well as in
Patna.
In Colombia, DESTIN has agreed to provide visiting lecturers for a
new Universidad de los Andes postgraduate Masters' specialisation on
conflict and conflict resolution and we are discussing similar arrangements
at the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Nacional.
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