Dear Harriet,
Many thanks for your comments. As it happens, I am in the early stages of thinking through the details of a conference to look at the role of big international NGOs, past, present, and future. But that won’t be until spring 2020. In the meantime, I would sugest to you and to all with an interest in this topic that the “Politics, Humanitarianism, and Children’s Rights” conference that we are organising at the LSE on 8/9 April will indeed be an opportunity to start thinking about the issues you raise by using Save the Children’s history as a vehicle for a critical reflection on where we are and where we all go from here.
The website advertising the conference is now live, here:
https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/conference100
I am also attaching the programme, which goes into more detail than the website. The names of the panellists will be added once they are confirmed.
There will be a limited number of places at the 2-day conference reserved for SC UK alumni. The number available will depend on the uptake from the various constituencies (SC UK staff, Sheffield and LSE students, Advisory Board members, the wider practitioner community, etc.) so I can’t guarantee that applications will be successful, but they will be taken on a first come, first served basis so I urge you to get quickly onto the Eventbrite website via the link above if you wish to attend. The closing date is midnight on 6 February.
The evening event on 8 April will be a bigger affair but the tickets will only become available a week before the event (that’s the way the LSE does it). You might want to set a calendar reminder and bookmark the link to the site, which is is here:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2019/04/20190408t1830vSZT/Politics
I look forward to seeing as many alumni as possible at one or both events!
Kind regards,
MikeSave-the-Children-Centenary-Conference-Programme-Names-to-be-Added.pdf