Read, Click and Tweet: A follow-up to “The Future of Aid” event

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– Jan 27, 2012

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Alyson Rowe

Thank you to everyone who attended last night's presentation of "The Future of Aid: Our Shared Responsibility". A sold-out audience joined Moderator Brian Stewart and panelists Sylvester Bayowo, Sasha Lezhnev, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Dr. Vijayendra Rao and Ian Smillie for a lively discussion about the challenges facing the humanitarian sector.

We encourage you to seek out new information and get informed about the issues you care about. Below, please find a list of recommended books, web links and twitter personalities to spark your interest. We hope to post footage and photos from the event early next week.

This list is a work in progress, please add your recommendations in the comments!

BOOKS

1. Partners in Development also known as “The Pearson Report”, Lester B. Pearson
2. Rural Development Putting the Last First, Robert Chambers
3. Development Projects as Policy Experiments, Dennis A. Rondinelli
4. Blood in the Stone, Ian Smillie
5. Freedom from Want, Ian Smillie
6. The Enough Moment, John Prendergast with Don Cheadle
7. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Jason Stearns
8. War Nerd, Gary Brecher
9. In the Belly of the Hyena, Nega Mezlekia
10. Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, Roya Hakakian
11. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild
12. War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Chris Hedges
13. The Soccer War, Ryszard Kapuscinski
14. Letters to my Daughters, Fawzia Koofi
15. Tears of the Desert, Halima Bashir
16. The Big Short, Michael Lewis
17. It’s the Crude Dude, Linda McQuaige
18. White Man’s Burden, Bill Easterly
19. Problem From Hell, Samantha Power
20. Where War Lives, Paul Watson
21. Commodities as Capabilities, Amartya Sen
22. Culture and Public Action, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors)
23. Poor Economics, Abhijit Banerji and Esther Duflo
24. Community-Based and Driven Development: A Critical Review, Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao
25. Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with War Lords in Collapsing Stated, Sasha Lezhnev

WEB LINKS

ABOUT THE ISSUES

1. RAISE HOPE FOR THE CONGO www.raisehopeforcongo.org
2. GRASSROOTS RECONICILATION GROUP www.grassrootsgroup.org
3. CONTROL ARMS www.controlarms.org
4. PROJECT PLOUGHSHARES www.ploughshares.ca
5. SMALL ARMS SURVEY www.smallarmssurvey.org
6. STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSITUTE www.sipri.org
7. MINING WATCH CANADA www.miningwatchcanada.ca
8. ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS www.ewb.ca
9. DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE www.ddiglobal.org
10. GLOBAL WITNESS www.globalwitness.org
11. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH www.hrw.org

TO LEARN MORE

1. A daily collection of world news from aid bloggers, Tim Murphy and Mark Goldberg www.dawnsdigest.com
2. Alert Net www.trust.org
3. The Guardian’s Global Development page www.guardian.co.uk/global-development
4. Relief Net reliefweb.int
5. IRIN www.irinnews.org
6. CIC www.opencanada.org

TWITTER

1. UN DISPATCH twitter.com/undispatch
2. Mark Goldberg twitter.com/MarkLGoldberg
3. VIEW FROM THE CAVE, Tom Murphy twitter.com/viewfromthecave
4. TEXAS IN AFRICA, Laura Seay twitter.com/texasinafrica
5. CONFLICT HEALTH, Chris Albon twitter.com/chrisalbon
6. Alanna Shaikh twitter.com/alanna_shaikh
7. Bill Easterly twitter.com/bill_easterly
8. Chris Blattman twitter.com/cblatts
9. Owen Barder twitter.com/owenbarder
10. Samantha Nutt twitter.com/SamanthaNutt
     

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Tags: future of aid, samantha nutt, war child canada,

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