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	<description>Exploring complexity sciences in international development and humanitarian aid</description>
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		<title>Complexity and Innovation: A Plexus Institute interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years in ALNAP, we have been leading work on humanitarian innovations which resulted in a major study, an international conference and a significant investment in innovation processes by a major donor. It is clear to us that the term innovation is being used more and more across the aid sector, whether by senior leaders like Rajiv [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=799&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compiling evaluation and complexity resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all those interested in or attending the Evaluation Revisited conference this week, here is a very rapid compilation of free-to-download presentations and reports plus details of meetings and websites which may be of interest. Please do add more resources using the comments function below&#8230; Presentations: Mokoro Presentations on Monitoring and Evaluating complex development given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=762&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons rising from the ash</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/05/03/lessons-rising-from-the-ash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1970s, systems thinker Russell Ackoff argued that some of the greatest problems happen when messy problems are dealt with as if they were simple puzzles. The true extent of interconnectedness and interdependence of the world we live in is ignored or downplayed until a crisis &#8211; i.e. when it is already too late. Time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=694&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happens when you are busy making other plans</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/30/what-happens-when-you-are-busy-making-other-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Lennon famously quipped that life was what happened when you were busy making other plans. A new book Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice from the fantastic STEPS centre at the University of Sussex focuses on how much the same contradiction plays out in the global movements toward development, environmental sustainability and social justice. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=725&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powerpoint, complexity and the art of hypnotising chickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in yesterday&#8217;s NY Times launches a scathing attack on the use of Powerpoint in the US military, and draws some interesting conclusions about how such tools can inhibit understanding of complexity. Exhibit A, below, is a now-infamous slide that is intended to represent the complexity of American military strategy in Afghanistan. As General Stanley A. McChrystal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=715&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest in &#8220;aid net-oric&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent piece of work has led to the coining of the phrase &#8216;aid net-oric&#8217; (pron: net-er-ik) &#8211; a form of rhetoric which applies to exaggerated and bombastic use of the term &#8216;network&#8217; in the aid sector. Once you start looking, you can see potential examples of &#8216;aid net-oric&#8217; everywhere, from political manifestos to organisational [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=703&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The collapsing aid system: slow, uneven, with winners and losers</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/20/the-collapsing-aid-system-slow-uneven-with-winners-and-losers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owen Barder recently used a few examples of the work of complexity thinkers, notably Clay Shirker and Joseph Tainter, to suggest that the aid system may be due to collapse imminently, because its own internal complexity would reduce its resilience to the changes that are happening around it. It&#8217;s a powerful argument, and one which is worth building [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=697&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three recent articles on complexity and aid-related issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owen Barder on the coming collapse of the development system and on the need for variation and selection in improving the aid system Bill Easterly on spontaneous order on getting cabs in New York, and the relevance for development. Susan Curran on the complexity of cooperation, drawing from a seminar at the James Martin 21st [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=691&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slime mould, simple rules and the politics of self-organisation</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/15/slime-mould-simple-rules-and-the-politics-of-self-organisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Copying nature’s ideas allows people to harness the power of evolution to come up with clever products. Now a group of researchers has taken this idea a step further by using an entire living organism—a slime mould—to solve a complex problem. In this case, the challenge was to design an efficient rail network for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=580&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is no such thing as a natural disaster&#8221;: crises, complexity and the role of theory</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-natural-disaster-crises-complexity-and-the-role-of-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the few weeks following the Haiti earthquake, much of our work at ALNAP has focused on getting key operational lessons from previous earthquakes into the hands and minds of operational agency staff, and briefing media representatives on a variety of issues related to the relief and recovery work.  As the initial signs of some kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=517&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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