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Lessons about evaluating responses to the pandemic: Insights from the World Food Program Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / January 22, 2021 / Food security, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 11: World Savvy, World Food Programme

Blue Marble Evaluation Context The first overarching Blue Marble Evaluation principle is the Global Thinking Principle: Apply whole-Earth big-picture thinking to all aspects of systems change. The World Food Programme (WFP) epitomizes that principle. The pandemic, as a global challenge, requires Global Thinking. In evaluating WFP’s response to the pandemic, global thinking is critical. Working […]

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day by Zooming Out and Zooming In

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Charmagne_Campbell-Patton / April 23, 2020 / Earth Day, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 6: GLOCAL

With lockdowns and stay home orders spanning the globe to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, we’ve all been spending an awful lot of time on Zoom these days. I know I have. Even my 2 and 6 year olds have. And now the language of “zoomed out” has become commonplace. I think we are all feeling

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APEA Webinar Follow-up: Further Implications of the Global Health Emergency for Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / April 21, 2020 / APEA, Coronavirus, Global Networks, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 6: GLOCAL

On April 21, 2020, the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association hosted a webinar where they asked Michael Quinn Patton to explore the implications of the novel coronavirus for evaluation. The recording of the webinar can be found here. The webinar generated lively discussion among participants. Below are some of the questions and comments shared in the chat during the

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The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / Fred_Carden / April 20, 2020 / Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, International Development, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL

Summary: To quote a researcher from a recent study of institutions in Africa, “How is Africa ever going to develop if it doesn’t have its own set of very strong institutions?” If we are going to collectively address global challenges, strong national partners are essential. A continuing failure to address this gap in many parts of the world will

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The Interconnection Between the Global and the Personal: A Blue Marble Perspective

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / March 4, 2020 / Health & Well-Being, mqpmusings, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 6: GLOCAL, reflective practice

At the end of February, as part of a speaking engagement on Blue Marble Evaluation in Charlotte, North Carolina, I had the opportunity to meet with a group of community leaders, activists, and scholars to discuss how we collectively and individually approach the climate emergency in our own work and our lives. The group included

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Blue Marble Geographics

Leave a Comment / Tools / admin / November 1, 2019 / Data Vizualization, Principle 1: Global Thinking

Global Mapper offers GIS technology that includes data creating, editing, rendering, and analysis tools.

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Globalization and Culture

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 25, 2019 / Globalization, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL

By Jan Nederveen Pieterse Published by Rowman & Littlefield (2019) Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that we are witnessing the

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A systems view of life: a unifying vision

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 20, 2019 / Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 4: Transboundary Engagement

By F. Capra and L. Luisi (2014) Publisher: Cambridge University Press This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks,

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World System Analysis

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 10, 2019 / Principle 1: Global Thinking, Systems Thinking

By Immanuel Wallerstein Duke University Press In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences

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