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Professor Neil Stott discussed social innovation during fieldwork in the US.
Lucy Cavendish Fellow, Professor Neil Stott, was a panellist for the Australian Mission to the UN’s event Action for Peacekeeping: The Utility of Social Innovation as a Framework for Improving Operational Effectiveness, held in New York on the 19th of May.
Here he provided a very useful conceptual framework on social innovation, social innovators, social change organisations, and the social innovator’s system.
The framework, designed for UN Peacekeepers by Professor Stott and colleagues Jarrod Pendlebury and Bill De Marco, highlights social problems impacting on, exacerbated or caused by, UN Peacekeepers, such as social injustice, destabilisation and destruction and the work that can be done to resolve them.
Also on the panel were H.E. The Hon Mitch Fifield, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance Catherine Pollard, and H.E. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Permanent Representative of The Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations, who borrowed Neil’s framework for looking at social innovation and UN peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Professor Stott also visited Maxwell air base in Montgomery, Alabama, to deliver a three-day event titled Leadership Education Development eXperience (Ledx) Cambridge: Social Innovation Workshop, which focused on social innovation, together with colleagues Dr Michelle Darlington and Yvonne Lardner. The event started on the 24th of May and was organised by AUiX: Air University's Innovation Accelerator.
Read Professor’s Stott bio here
Read more about the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation
Read more about the Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations
