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SUMMARY:The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in d
 evelopment programmes    - Professor Hilary Footitt\, University of Readin
 g
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:This paper discusses the findings of a 3 year AHRC project\, T
 he Listening Zones of NGOs: languages and cultural knowledge in developmen
 t programmes. The starting point for the research was the observation that
  'listening' is key to the relationships which International Governmental 
 Organisations (INGOs) seek to form with communitites across the world with
  whom they work. In order to investigate the contribution of languages and
  cultural knowledge to listening\, the project worked with 4 UK-based INGO
 s (Christian Aid\, OxfamGB\, Save the Children UK\, and Tearfund)\, and wi
 th NGOs and development practitioners in Kyrgyzstan\, Malawi and Peru. The
  presentation will discuss the findings and recommendations from the proje
 ct\, and discuss their possible relevance to future research on listening.
 \n\n\nHilary Footitt is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Mo
 dern Languages and European Studies in the University of Reading\, UK. She
  has written widely on languages in conflict and post-conflict situations\
 , and was the Principal Investigator for the AHRC projects Languages at Wa
 r\, and the Listening Zones of NGOs.She is co-editor for the series Langua
 ges at War (Palgrave Macmillan)\, and for the forthcoming Handbook of Lang
 uages and Conflict.\n\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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