Alameda Institute

Alameda Institute is seeking a Part-time Researcher and Project Coordinator to work closely with the Head of Research on the execution of its international research programme. The successful candidate will have a Master’s degree in a relevant field, significant research experience, and strong analytical skills. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to high-level research in an interdisciplinary environment. 🗓️ Contract: 16 months (January 2025 - April 2026) 📍 Location: Remote 👤 Reporting to: Sabrina Fernandes Applications close on 28 October 2024. For further details and to apply, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dkKJ8nqJ #alamedainstitute #hiring #projectcoordinator

A Critical Reflection on Humanitarian Reform – Past, Present, Future For decades, the humanitarian sector has championed reform as a solution to its most pressing challenges. Yet, despite countless initiatives, the system remains mired in cycles of unfulfilled promises, entrenched inequalities, and a stubborn resistance to change. How much longer can we sustain a status quo that often perpetuates the very crises it seeks to address? Alameda Institute presents 'A Critical Reflection on Humanitarian Reform: Past, Present, Future', by Eleanor Davey and Fernando Espada. Drawing from a thought-provoking workshop, the report brings together insights from people who have played key roles in shaping the humanitarian system, experts on its dynamics and evolution, and those striving to bring about change today. As climate change escalates crises and localisation remains more rhetoric than reality, this report delves into the structural and political barriers that hinder meaningful transformation. It critiques reform efforts that too often prioritise organisational survival over genuine accountability and equity and explores uncomfortable but necessary questions about the sector’s complicity in sustaining colonial legacies and power imbalances. READ: https://lnkd.in/eUfVXGBA

In a recent interview, Sabrina Fernandes engaged with Lala Peñaranda of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) to discuss the essential role of trade unions in promoting a fair and inclusive energy transition. They examined the significant disparities in renewable energy investments, which often favor the Global North and perpetuate extractive practices. Peñaranda emphasized the need to move beyond superficial worker inclusion in decarbonization strategies, advocating for approaches that challenge existing power structures and call for a profound restructuring of the global political economy. This conversation underscores the importance of comprehensive strategies that amplify workers' voices and prioritize energy democracy alongside environmental justice. READ THE ARTICLE: https://lnkd.in/dbDyxVg5 The article is part of the Alameda Institute's forthcoming dossier, "Energy Transition: Just and Beyond," scheduled for release in March 2025.

📣[APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS !]📣 [English below] ☟☟☟ Alternatives Humanitaires / Humanitarian Alternatives lance un nouvel appel à contributions pour le dossier du numéro 28 (mars 2025) sur le thème : « Comprendre la crise de l’humanitaire à l’ère du changement climatique ». Si vous êtes intervenant·e, chercheur·euse ou observateur·ice du milieu #humanitaire international et souhaitez soumettre un projet d’article, écrivez-nous avant le 4 octobre ! Le dossier sera copiloté par Fernando Espada, responsable des affaires humanitaires de Save the Children International et collaborateur de l’institut de recherche Alameda (Alameda Institute) et Clara Egger, professeure à l’Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, membre du Comité de rédaction, avec Boris Martin, notre rédacteur en chef. Retrouvez l'appel à contributions sur notre site ↓↓↓ https://lnkd.in/dQ3MUgxv --- 📣[CALL FOR PAPERS!]📣 ☟☟☟ The Alternatives Humanitaires / Humanitarian Alternatives review is launching a new call for papers for its 28th special feature (March 2025), provisionally titled: “Understanding humanitarian crisis in the era of climate change”. If you are a participant, researcher, or observer of the international #humanitarian community, send us a message by 4 October to let us know about your interest in submitting an article. The dossier will be co-directed by Fernando Espada, Head of Humanitarian Affairs at Save the Children International, Associate of the Alameda Institute and Clara Egger, professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Editorial board’s member with Boris Martin, our Editor-in-Chief For more details about the submission process, please read the call for papers on our website ↓↓↓ https://lnkd.in/dTR949cC

What is the scope for humanitarian reform in the era of climate change? I had the privilege of joining a group of experts to discuss this topic led by @EleanorDavey & Fernando Espada @savechildrenuk. A report is to be published soon but key takeaways for me include: 💡 How is the climate-humanitarian nexus understood and adapted to locally? What can learn from that? I expect it to be similar to other nexus approaches where local actors saw humanitarian, development, peace and security as interconnected as opposed to international approaches that divided them into separate sectors. 💡 Climate for me is a contextual factor like conflict. Do we then think about climate sensitivity/awareness as we do we conflict sensitivity? What does that mean for humanitarian engagement? More anticipatory action and funding? Possibly. 💡 How do we deal with data inequalities? Data on climate variability is extremely limited in the Global South. Any discussions about reform or including a climate focus needs to be underpinned by a realisation that we know much more now about conflict dynamics than climate variability in most humanitarian crises. Many thanks to Alameda Institute and Save the Children International for convening this discussion. I'll be mulling over it for a while!

Recently, at the Alameda Institute, we co-published a dossier on food sovereignty in partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-Southern Africa. The dossier includes articles by a handful of authors, including myself and Alameda research associate Raj Patel. One of our objectives was to further intervene in debates on the global food crises that seem stuck on the narrow view of food security measures and simply weathering the shocks of a polycrisis. Our point is that we need an internationalist strategy that unites objectives to end hunger with land reform, workers' struggles, agroecology, the decommodification of food and, of course, a just socioecological transition. You can download and read the dossier in the link below: https://lnkd.in/edMm9RgC

We all need to eat to live, but, curiously, the question about how to ensure that a steady supply of quality affordable food arrives at our tables is often removed from strategic debates. Food seems secondary to the major political questions of our time, or its discussion is confined to particular audiences. Today, ecological collapse, nuclear war, and world-economic disintegration appear as threats on the horizon, even as their concrete effects are being felt across the world. This dossier, the product of collaboration between the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and Alameda Institute, makes the case that food production and distribution are indeed of strategic importance to addressing the polycrisis that shapes the world we live in. Featuring insights from experts like Raj Patel, Sabrina Fernandes, Jeniffer Clapp, and activists like Million Belay, the dossier connects local efforts for food sovereignty to global strategies. It encourages a broader conversation about how we can organise for a fairer food future, focusing on sovereignty, internationalism, and global strategies. READ THE DOSSIER ONLINE AT: https://lnkd.in/dXvr5Eps

The recent floods in Brazil have shown us how the climate crisis will intensely affect the countries of the Global South. This kind of localised collapse, which has affected more than 2 million people, shows us the importance of non-contradictory responses from the countries that have the greatest impact on the current state of polycrisis. Sabrina Fernandes talks at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona about the Just Transition in the Polycrisis from a Latin American perspective that rejects Green Colonialism and proposes alternatives for dealing with these crises in an internationalist way.

It was a rainy Monday in April 2023 when we presented Alameda Institute to the world. Today, a year later, we couldn't have imagined that we would be coordinating so many projects and research with such an outstanding global network. While shaping our structure, we launched our institute in Brazil and the UK, along with two dossiers, book launches, lectures, online events, unique articles, literary fairs, and collaborations with organisations and universities on several continents. Amongst all that, perhaps our most significant work has been building our network, this bridge sustained by a unique mix of people and cultures. In a world dominated by individualism, collectivity is a revolutionary act. And this underpins Alameda's ethos: strengthening this international network, committed to offering insightful analyses and strategic directions in this period of catastrophe, through collaborative and engaged work. A special thank you to our tiny secretariat, which works together in different countries of the world to make this connection a reality: Juliano Fiori, Sabrina Fernandes, Beliz Boni, Benjamin Fogel, Gabriel Tupinambá, Gareth Owen OBE, Emily Forbes, and Becca Gibbs. These photos celebrate just a few of the moments we've shared, and we hope many more will come! Thank you. #1stAnniversary #AlamedaInstitute #StrategicResearch

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭 𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤 𝘫𝘢𝘮 𝘖𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨" (Ben Okri) ____ With this poem by Ben Okri and images by Edward Burtynsky, Sabrina Fernandes opened her talk on Transition and Climate Justice at the University of Bath. Rethinking the "polycrisis" from a Global South perspective, she brought us critical analyses of how to approach the age of catastrophe from an internationalist and grounded place. WATCH IT FULL: https://lnkd.in/dPaksGAv