Konferenzen und Workshops

GIGA, RWI, DEval, and the evaluation department of KfW invite to a one-day Learning Forum on the use of evidence in German development cooperation. The forum aims to firmly establish evidence-based approaches on the agenda of political decision-makers and to strengthen the dialogue between research and practice. Using concrete examples and current development policy challenges, the event will demonstrate how evidence can be systematically applied to inform and improve decision-making processes.

Discover how China draws on shared histories, emotional resonance, and nostalgia to shape its influence in the Global South. In this talk, Lina Benabdallah explores how Silk Road memories and anti-colonial affinities are reimagined to frame the Belt and Road as a revival of past prosperity.

Prof. Alev Çınar examines the production of civilizationist discourse in the Islamic intellectual field, which gave rise not only to the civilizationist vision of Turkey’s ruling party, the AKP, but also to various other Islam-based intellectual movements that emerged in the field since the 1940s.

Indien als aktives BRICS-Mitglied vertieft auch seine Beziehungen mit dem Westen und erklärt sich zum Führer des Globalen Südens. Das Indien-Expertenteam des GIGA debattiert mit Sharinee Jagtiani (German Marshall Fund) und dem deutschen Botschafter in Indien, Philipp Ackermann, über die geopolitische Lage des Landes.