Ruby Quantson Davis
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Ruby Quantson Davis
@RubyQuantson
Peace Research. Deliberative Dialogues. Learning Networks. Impacting Communities.
Cambridge, UK Bergabung Ekim 2011
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Ghana to initiate visa-free travel for Africans in 2024 africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/…
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"Time to head out into new territory
What should you concentrate on next?"
"Consider the questions they ask for which you have no answers."
bernoff.com/blog/is-your-c…
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There we go again. Exhausting!
Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
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Next Monday, join the Global Day of Action calling for a #CeasefireNOW in Gaza:
🖋️sign: ow.ly/B4ia50Qinoc
📢 share the call: ow.ly/lPom50Qinoa
👕 wear your values - we've launched a solidarity collection, sold at-cost, to boost the campaign: ow.ly/loX550Qinob
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An appreciation of different ways of thinking, processing and creating will #ShiftThePower
Well done team Bogota!
#EAPhilanthropyNetwork@EAPhilanthropy
An amazing three days at the #ShiftThePower summit is crowned today. The beauty of unity and diversity exemplified through thoughts, arts and culture.
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🤝What is the relationship between decolonising international cooperation and #ShiftingThePower ?
Join one of our weaving conversations on the 13th November ahead of the @ShiftThePower Summit this December!
Session 1: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Session 2: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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'Sitting with the Discomfort of Decolonisation'.
I recall starting this presentation with a Xhosa/Zulu freedom song, in the centre of Cambridge, United Kingdom! It was a heavy topic, and I needed inspiration from my predecessors and ancestors. Thanks for publishing.
Read on:
Wesley House@wesleyhousecam
Holiness 8.2 is out. Congratulations to @RubyQuantson on her article 'Sitting with the Discomfort of Decolonisation' doi.org/10.2478/holine…
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"Perhaps it is time for funding bodies to rethink their application processes."
ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken nature.com/articles/d4158…
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People-centred research and evaluation: Relational practices that shift power, recognises and protects civilians.
Great reflective questions @Peaceforce
Nonviolent Peaceforce (inactive)@Peaceforce
Participatory research & evaluation — two, interrelated relational practices. 🧐what does it mean to conduct unarmed civilian protection nonviolently? @DrNerveV @rogermacginty @felicityegray #EllenFurnari @UCPResearch
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"Suddenly we received the news... ‘Sorry we are stopping this program— it was as sudden as that,”
The funding cuts mean help is withdrawn from 104 health facilities in Uganda and Madagascar and the loss of 648 community health workers in Sudan"
devex.com/news/there-is-…
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"One of the biggest changes is the decolonization of aid and empowerment of local leadership — a key plank of the new policy, particularly as it pertains to Australia’s Indo-Pacific neighbors, many of which are being courted by China" @peacedirect
devex.com/news/australia…
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Please help our talented brother if you can. Thank you so much.
gofundme.com/f/charles-will…
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"...traditional approaches to M&E – with a focus on linear logic, attribution, and causality – have never really been fit-for-purpose in peacemaking..."
frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/how-adaptive-m…
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‘Two fundamental changes in our understanding of impact have led us to again evolve, and create a new Learning and Accountability Framework.'
1. Who defines what should be measured?
2. Addressing root causes by working on systems change.
frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/evaluating-the…
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"Meanwhile, our countries, the ones whose autonomy these discussions are allegedly about, continue to literally fall to pieces".
Yup! Through poverty, bad governance, land issues, harsh trade and foreign policies....all of that create aid dependency.
devex.com/news/opinion-c…
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We mean business! Peaceful and just business!
Peace Direct@peacedirect
@OpenEdgeTC 📸Here is our International Programmes and Research team having a blast on the day!
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Leadership Tips from Someone Who Knows frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/leadership-tip…
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