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Graduate Institute of Development Studies
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Created in 1961 as the Institut Africain de Genève (African Institute of Geneva), its stated goal was to promote teaching and research concerning <a href="/facts/International_development/ouf3xcPQ">international development</a> and to encourage students from the <a href="/facts/North%25E2%2580%2593South_divide_in_the_World/TtdsSbKh">Global South</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>The Geneva center for the training of African executives was created by the <a href="/facts/Canton_of_Geneva/zPCUL8HH">Canton of Geneva</a> with the contribution of <a href="/facts/Jacques_Freymond/vGsGyncC">Jacques Freymond</a> in 1961, with the aim of offering <a href="/facts/Africa/XkqQUP9s">African</a> executives a reception center and creating a place for reflection and research for people interested in development issues. </p><p>This center became the African Institute of Geneva the following year and then took the name Graduate Institute of Development Studies (<i>Institut universitaire d’études du développement</i>, IUED) in 1973.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> The IUED was born from the signing of an agreement with the <a href="/facts/University_of_Geneva/qXnRaoK5">University of Geneva</a> in 1977. Since that time, the institute has gradually opened up to students from all over the world.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>The IUED trained several generations of development activists in Switzerland and in the world (including at PhD level after 1995) and was at the center of a huge international network. Very active in concrete development projects, the IUED was also known in the <a href="/facts/Francophone_world/I9arP2JJ">francophone world</a> for proposing an alternative and a critical view of development aid and world affairs,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> as well as for its journal, <i>Cahiers de l'IUED</i>. It was also among the pioneer institutions in Europe for the intellectual development of the sustainable development perspective. Among its directors were Roy Preiswerk, Pierre Bungener, Jacques Forster (actual head of IHEID Foundation Board), Jean-Luc Maurer and Michel Carton. GIDS was attached to, but independent of, the <a href="/facts/University_of_Geneva/qXnRaoK5">University of Geneva</a>. </p> <h2 id="merger">Merger</h2> <p>In 1999, it joined forces with the <a href="/facts/Graduate_Institute_of_International_Studies/ryCj0tct">Graduate Institute of International Studies</a> (IUHEI) to create the International University Network of Geneva (RUIG) with the aim of promoting the exchange of ideas and joint projects of Swiss and international institutions and organizations. non-governmental organizations working in the field of international relations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> The collaboration with the Graduate Institute of International Studies continued in 2005 with the proposal of a program of seminars common to the two institutes within the framework of the Bologna Convention. </p><p>In 2006, a merger agreement was signed between the two institutions, which came together within the <a href="/facts/Graduate_Institute_of_International_and_Development_Studies/ryCj0tct">Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies</a> on January 1, 2008.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> In 2008, IUED and the <a href="/facts/Graduate_Institute_of_International_Studies/ryCj0tct">Graduate Institute of International Studies</a> (IUHEI) were combined into a new institution, the <a href="/facts/Graduate_Institute_of_International_and_Development_Studies/ryCj0tct">Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies</a> (IHEID). The new Institute combines the fields of <a href="/facts/Development_studies/Jb35zyLp">development studies</a> and <a href="/facts/International_relations/FgLEX3Cy">international relations</a> and offers a much wider choice of teaching and research activities. </p> <h2 id="notable-alumni">Notable alumni</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Jean-Victor_Harvel_Jean-Baptiste/QaRavLJU">Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste</a>, minister of foreign and religious affairs of Haiti</li> <li><a href="/facts/Juan_Gasparini/qvElQEI7">Juan Gasparini</a>, Argentinian journalist and writer</li> <li><a href="/facts/Antonio_Hodgers/sJMGbJom">Antonio Hodgers</a>, conseiller national, Berne.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Alpha_Oumar_Konar%25C3%25A9/JmfY2xYa">Alpha Oumar Konaré</a>, ex-president of Mali.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Carlos_Lopes_(Guinea_Bissau)/pW8XxJro">Carlos Lopes</a>, Executive Director of the <a href="/facts/United_Nations_Institute_for_Training_and_Research/u9jYkm1R">United Nations Institute for Training and Research</a> and Assistant-Secretary General to the United Nations</li> <li><a href="/facts/Duarte_Pio%2c_Duke_of_Braganza/MPpPby9k">Duarte Pio</a>, Portuguese Duke of Braganza and claimant to the throne of Portugal</li> <li><a href="/facts/Riadh_Sidaoui/htnHQwQC">Riadh Sidaoui</a>, writer and political scientist.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Marcelo_Zabalaga/rWTYPbQk">Marcelo Zabalaga</a>, ex-president of the Central Bank of Bolivia</li></ul> <h2 id="notable-faculty">Notable faculty</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cruz_Melchor_Eya_Nchama/ePI6MVN0">Cruz Melchor Eya Nchama</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gilbert_Rist/RdeUNAMa">Gilbert Rist</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Jean_Ziegler/YGcmAISc">Jean Ziegler</a>, Swiss sociologist</li> <li><a href="/facts/Yvonne_Preiswerk/vmf4e8Y7">Yvonne Preiswerk</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Jacques_Grinevald/oQUtr9pl">Jacques Grinevald</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Alessandro_Monsutti/vMxN0zUR">Alessandro Monsutti</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Philippe_Regnier/zTHMbtNc">Philippe Regnier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Pape_Diouf/C6aCkPY2">Pape Diouf</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gilles_Carbonnier/D4c2BNSS">Gilles Carbonnier</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.iheid.ch/">Official Graduate Institute of Development Studies website</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110320130534/http://iheid.ch/">Archived</a> 2011-03-20 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Institut universitaire d'études du développement. Genève, Suisse". bnf.fr. Retrieved 12 July 2019. <a href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11879041/institut_universitaire_d_etudes_du_developpement_geneve__suisse/" target="_blank">https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11879041/institut_universitaire_d_etudes_du_developpement_geneve__suisse/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Lancement de l'Institut de Hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)". unige.ch. 23 November 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2019. <a href="https://www.unige.ch/actualites/archives/2007/iheid/" target="_blank">https://www.unige.ch/actualites/archives/2007/iheid/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies". graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 1 March 2014. <a href="http://graduateinstitute.ch/home.html" target="_blank">http://graduateinstitute.ch/home.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva". europaeum.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140305194204/http://www.europaeum.org/europaeum/?q=node%2F43" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140305194204/http://www.europaeum.org/europaeum/?q=node%2F43</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies". elliott.gwu.edu. Retrieved 1 March 2014. <a href="http://elliott.gwu.edu/graduate-study-abroad/geneva" target="_blank">http://elliott.gwu.edu/graduate-study-abroad/geneva</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva". mastersportal.eu. Retrieved 1 March 2014. <a href="http://www.mastersportal.eu/universities/661/graduate-institute-of-international-and-development-studies-geneva.html" target="_blank">http://www.mastersportal.eu/universities/661/graduate-institute-of-international-and-development-studies-geneva.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Marc Perrenoud, Revue internationale de politique de développement, janvier 2010, p. 81-98 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"L'IUED refait le monde depuis 40 ans". infosud.org. 7 November 2001. Archived from the original on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190721213403/http://www.infosud.org/L-IUED-refait-le-monde-depuis-40,5076" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190721213403/http://www.infosud.org/L-IUED-refait-le-monde-depuis-40,5076</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"A Genève, l'Institut universitaire d'étude du développement prépare sa mue - Le Temps" (in French). 2004-07-14. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2024-03-27. <a href="https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-linstitut-universitaire-detude-developpement-prepare-mue" target="_blank">https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-linstitut-universitaire-detude-developpement-prepare-mue</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Charles Beer Conseiller d’Etat chargé du département de l’instruction publique, FAO Feuille d'avis officielle de la République et canton de Genève, 24 septembre 2008, p. 1 <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>HEI-IUED: les détails d'un mariage forcé, Le Temps, 19 mai 2006 <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>