In association with the London Centre for International Law Practice (LCILP), Amicus met with, and presented to, students and staff of the International Development Institute (IDI). Martin Polaine & Sunil Patel led the discussions and focused on the deployment of anonymised debriefing (Solve:Interactive) and immersive exercises (Solve:Immersive) in international development projects, particularly in respect of vulnerable groups, post-conflict situations and gender violence.
Under the leadership of Dr. Peter Kingstone, the IDI has pursued an innovative approach to development, concentrating on the middle-income developing states or ‘emerging economies’, where foreign aid is largely irrelevant. It has gained a reputation for studying context and actual economic, social and political change in middle-income states, rather than the more prescriptive models of development. It has regional expertise on Latin America and East/Southeast Asia and its mission is “to explore the sources of success in emerging economies, as well as understand the major development challenges they continue to face”.
