Rethinking Development – From Control to Care Panel Event
Tuesday 7 April 14:00 until 17:00
International : University of Nairobi, University Towers, University Way, Nairobi, Kenya
Speaker: Keynote Prof. Ian Scoones - Resource Politics and Environmental Change
This panel event will challenge traditional development models built on prediction, control, and linear planning, instead advocating for approaches rooted in adaptability, care, inclusion, learning, and the embrace of uncertainty.
The discussion will draw on Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World (Polity, 2024) by Prof. Ian Scoones, IDS Sussex, using disaster risk reduction as a focal case. It will explore how resilience can be built from below through networks of “high reliability professionals” and embedded, relational systems rooted in local solidarities and moral economies — recognising disasters not as isolated events, but as unfolding conditions shaped by deep uncertainty.
The panel will take place from 2:00-4:00pm EAT, and will be followed by networking from 4:00-5:00pm EAT.
Register here for the event.
By: Harriet De Bene
Last updated: Thursday, 12 March 2026