Dr. Lauri Siitonen, researcher and teacher of international development cooperation, passed away after a bout of illness on 22 March 2026 in Helsinki at the age of 72. He was born in Turku on 14 February 1954. He went to school in Eura. He studied international politics at the University of Turku and received his …
By Walden Bello I would like, first of all, to thank Prof Bonn Juego, Chair of the Finnish Society for Development Research, and Prof Tiina Seppälä, Conference Chair of Development Days 2026, for inviting me to address this august assembly. I am truly honored and happy to be in Finland. It is often said that …
Bonn Juego Chair of the Finnish Society for Development Research, Co-Chair of Development Days 2026, and Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä [Opening remarks and Introduction to the Development Days 2026 / FSDR@40 international conference with the theme “Development in Ruins, Hope in the Cracks: A Time for Reckoning, Reclaiming, …
This is a republication of the “Meet a Wisdomer” section of JYU.Wisdom Newsletter 1/26, by the School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyväskylä, featuring FSDR Chair Bonn Juego. Meet a Wisdomer: Bonn Juego “Redefining Sustainability through Justice, Peace, and Planetary Well-being” Q: How did you become a part of the JYU.Wisdom community? Bonn: My …
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Dear FSDR Members, As we close the chapter on 2025, the Board sincerely thanks you for your continued membership and steadfast support. We also want to congratulate each of you for simply getting through another challenging year for the development research community, surviving and overcoming every hurdle, as we fulfill our professional responsibilities and continue …
#DevDays2026 | FSDR@40 Development in Ruins, Hope in the Cracks: A Time for Reckoning, Reclaiming, and Reawakening University of Helsinki, Finland | 26–27 February 2026 Concept Note We live in a ruined and ruining world. The postwar program and edifice of “development” as we know it—built on the assumptions of linear progress, donor-driven aid, and international cooperation—is crumbling. …
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Concept Note We live in a ruined and ruining world. The postwar program and edifice of “development” as we know it—built on the assumptions of linear progress, donor-driven aid, and international cooperation—is crumbling. Development’s failures, rooted in the colonial and capitalist world-system, are manifest: in the stark precarity and inequalities sharpening under economic neoliberalism; in …
Bonn Juego Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies, University of Jyväskylä [This think piece was originally published in Just Ecological Political Economy: The HELSUS Global South Blog.] What’s in a name? For nations on the frontlines of the climate emergency—where coastlines drown and forests burn—the answer may mean the difference between survival and extinction. During …
Marja-Liisa (Aro) Swantz died peacefully in her sleep on a May night at the age of 99. Professor emerita Swantz was the first director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. She taught in the Departments of Ethnology, Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Development Studies at the University of …
Authors: Ayonghe Nebasifu, Edmund Asare, Geethanjali Mariaselvam, Enrique Aliste-Almuna, Ida Herdieckerhoff, Anna Mustonen, Violeta Gutiérrez-Zamora, Anna-Emilia Haapakoski, Salla Jutila, & Aina Guinart Written based on insights from a working group (WG4) at the Development Days 2025 conference. The working group was organised by collaboration of the International Forest Policy Research Group and the Helsinki …
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