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*Seeing Like a Citizen:
International Perspectives on Deepening Democracy*
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John Gaventa
Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex** ***
*Chair of Oxfam Great Britain ***
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Vera Coelho
Visiting Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Moderated by Archon Fung
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Ash Institute
for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Thursday, April 30, 2009
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Light refreshments served
Fainsod Room, L324, Harvard Kennedy School
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation *
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*John Gaventa** **is a political sociologist, educator and civil society
practitioner with over 30 years experience of research, training and
organisational leadership in North and South. Currently he is a
Professor and Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) at University of Sussex, where he is a member of the
Participation, Power and Social Change team and Director of the
Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and
Accountability. He has written widely on issues of power, participatory
development and governance, civil society and social change. Before
coming to IDS in 1996, John was the co-director of research and Director
of the Highlander Centre, an NGO with over seven decades of experience
in working on poverty and social justice issues in poor regions of the
United States. John also serves as Chair of Oxfam Great Britain.
Vera P. Coelho** **is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hauser Center
for Nonprofit Organizations. She has a PhD in social sciences from
UNICAMP (Campinas State University), Brazil. She is a Senior Researcher
and coordinator of the Citizenship and Development Group at the
Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). Prof. Coelho
co-coordinates with Bettina Von Liers, the Comparative Research Program,
Deepening Democracy in States and Localities at the Citizenship
Development Research Centre (IDS) at Sussex University. Other research
interests include public policy, political participation,
accountability, democracy and development. She has written various
articles on health, social security, social policies and citizen
participation. Prof. Coelho edited,** */*Social Security Reform in Latin
America*/* **(fgv, 2003);** */*Participation and Deliberation in
Contemporary Brazil*/* **(with Marcos Nobre, 34 Letras, 2004) and**
*/*New Democratic Spaces: The Politics of Citizen Participation In New
Democratic*/* */*Arenas*/* **(with Andrea Cornwall, Zed Books, 2006).
She works with both qualitative and quantitative research methods and
has extensive experience in evaluating policies and coordinating
research projects at local, national and international level, having led
various comparative studies in her area.
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