IGDC Annual Lecture 2024: How can activists get better at driving change?

Event details

How Change Happens bridges the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice NGOs, as well as the author's 40 years of studying and working in international development, it tests ideas and sets out the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change.

This second edition, published in June, adds a chapter on the rising importance of digital technology in activism, and analyses the implications of some of the darker currents of populism and shrinking civic space for those trying to bring about positive change.

Bio:

Duncan Green is Professor in Practice at the International Development Department of the London School of Economics and the LSE’s Firoze Lalji Institute for Africa. He recently ended 20 years with Oxfam GB as head of research and strategic adviser. 

He is Director of the Global Executive Leadership Initiative course on influencing, run by UNOPS and hosted by the LSE, which since early 2022 has been training hand-picked groups of senior leaders at national level (UN, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent and national NGOs) to become more effective in influencing governments, societies and the international system.

He is an Adviser to Building Community Engagement in Papua New Guinea programme, on strategy, theories of change and mentoring for senior leadership, and undertakes various consultancies around influencing, advocacy and campaigns for Chatham House, the Asfari Foundation and others

Full bio here.