The organisers of the Nordic Development Research Conference (NorDev) have now opened their Call for Abstracts.
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The 8th Joint Nordic Development Research conference (NorDev) will be held at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) on 24-26 September 2025. The conference is organised by NMBU, with the support of the university’s Global South Working Group, and the Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU).
The theme of the conference will be: “Solidarity, social justice and sustainability”: Nurturing academic-civic solidarity, fostering social justice, and cultivating collaborations in an era of uncertainty.
Call for abstracts:
The organisers recently opened a call for abstracts to the (27) Open Panel Sessions:
- Panel 1. Development Policy and Practice in the Era of Conservative Backlash
- Panel 2. Politics of extraversion and the governance of rural West Africa in a ‘post-development’ context
- Panel 3. Equitable Green Transitions in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainability and Social Justice
- Panel 4. Food system transformations in a new political world situation
- Panel 5. Navigating the Era of Indicators in Development
- Panel 6. Solidarity and Sustainability: Creating Inclusive Solutions for Persons with Disabilities Impacted by Climate Change
- Panel 7. Land Dispossession and Development in the Sahel
- Panel 8. Towards Decolonizing African History and Visions of Development
- Panel 9. Public Policies and Public Utility in Developing Countries: Beyond the “Principal-Agent” Problem
- Panel 10. Global crisis, conflicts and injustice. Landscape role and responsibility in a contested world
- Panel 11. Cultivating Collaborations: Development Research on, for, with and by Civil Society Organizations
- Panel 12. Citizen and Refugee Led Aid: Exploring Relational Humanitarianism
- Panel 13. Inclusive and Equitable Food Systems in Refugee-hosting Contexts in East Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Explorations
- Panel 14. 20 years of REDD+: lessons learned, lessons to be learned, and lessons not learned
- Panel 15. Sustainable Hunting – protecting tropical biocultural diversity
- Panel 16. Global Orders, Security and Crisis
- Panel 17. Problematising Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability: Partnerships Beyond Epistemic Gatekeeping
- Panel 18. Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Violent Conflicts: A Search for Sustainable Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Panel 19. Geopolitical Ecology – When Geopolitics and Political Ecology Meet
- Panel 20. The political economy of transitions, green and grey
- Panel 21. Achieving energy for all: just transitions to electricity and clean cooking
- Panel 22. Plant diversity for sustainable food systems
- Panel 23. Resistance in Solidarity against Global Conservative Nationalism
- Panel 24. Advancing Aquatic Food Systems for a Sustainable and Just Future
- Panel 25. How are Public- Private Partnerships transforming development?
- Panel 26. AI and Sustainable Development: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations
- Panel 27. One Health One World
How to apply:
The abstracts must be no more than 250 words and can be sent to . In order to be considered for inclusion in the program, please indicate clearly the number and title of the panel that you wish to contribute to.
The organizers are also aiming to accommodate a limited number of panels for paper submissions that do not fit under the themes of the open panels listed above. If your paper does not fit withing a pre-identified panel, please label your submission with “Undefined Panel”.