Stichting Katholieke Universiteit (SKU), Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen
The Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen is part of the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and since 1999 the successor of the Third World Centre, which was established in 1973 and was meant to be a university centre in which Third World issues could be taught and researched in an interdisciplinary manner. Moreover, the aim was to establish a Centre that could make a valuable contribution to the dissemination of information on Third World problems in the Netherlands. In the seventies, the Nijmegen-based Centre became primarily an educational and research institute, although it still emphasised the broad dissemination of its research results (through lectures and publications). Beside education and research, the Third World Centre has provided social services. These services have ranged from initiating and organising debates to advising national and international development organisations. Although the Third World Centre is now the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, the Development Studies research and training community still remains. The community consists of the staff, undergraduate students, graduate students, post-graduate students and alumni. Research and fieldwork is carried out all over the world and SKU actively cooperates with numerous development organisations abroad, as well as with development agencies within The Netherlands, social security departments, immigration services, etc. The emphasis on multi-dimensionality, multi-locality, comparison and various new research areas applies not only within the SKU research programme, but also to the educational programme and the fieldwork of the students participating in the programme. The Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen cooperates intensively with foreign students, lecturers and researchers and involves them in its research and training community. The SKU offers post-graduate education in conflict and development issues and provides a major in “Development Studies” within the course “Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies”. The objective of a major in Development Studies is to impart the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to enable graduates to practice professions at an academic level in the field of development issues. Within INFOCON, the SKU will focus on the economic impact of transnational communities in conflict-ridden regions (lead of WP 4) and carry out field research on selected communities in Amsterdam and the Great Lakes region in Africa.
Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN)
Postal Address:
P.O. Box 9104. 6500 HE, Nijmegen
Visiting Address:
Thomas van Aquinostraat 4. 6525 GD, Nijmegen
F : + 31 24 361 59 57 (secretariat & general)
www.ru.nl/cidin/