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Three interconnected streams exploring development, governance, knowledge and power across the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States and the wider Global South.

Generative Development

Exploring how the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States and the wider Global South generate development from within their own histories, institutions and lived realities. It examines how locally generated ideas can reshape regional futures and global development thinking.

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Institutions & Governance

Examining how the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States and the wider Global South navigate and influence the institutions that govern development and international cooperation. It focuses on political agency, coalition-building and the use of local experience across national, regional and global levels.

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Knowledge, Method & Power

Examining how knowledge is produced, legitimised and contested, and how power shapes whose knowledge counts. It explores how Caribbean, Small Island Developing States and Global South perspectives challenge dominant narratives and expand how development is understood.

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