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We Have to Rethink Human Rights, Part 2
Beyond One Universal Model In Part 1 of this two-post series I argued that the current dominant narratives about human rights, ...
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How would you react if I told you that 'universal human rights' are not actually universal at all, but rather a ...
Read More Guest Post: Principles for Transforming Economics
This is a very important guest post by three eminent transformation specialists whom I greatly appreciate as people and as professionals - ...
Read More Snippets and Titbits 1. The Zoo of Future Risks
My first 'Snippet and Titbit'-the first random reading or thought morsel I would like to share more widely! This one is ...
Read More Evaluation’s Journey towards the Future, Part 5. The Liminal space of Not-Yet Futures
Mention 'polycrisis', and people's eyes glaze over - intimidated by its complexity and a sense of powerlessness. What if, instead, we consider ...
Read More Evaluation’s Journey towards the Future, Part 2. How did we get here?
In my previous post I imagined the ancient evolution of evaluation as a journey across uncharted waters - aquifers, canals, streams ...
Read More “What went wrong with woke?” The problem of measurement and influence.
How twisted narratives and simplistic measures can destroy a major effort to do good. What does this mean for evaluation / MEL? ...
Read More The Power(lessness) of Evaluation: The case of Afghanistan
Thanks to more than 60 evaluation reports over 13 years by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), we have a ...
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