Development Ethics
This group promotes discussion and publications about ethical issues which underlie the idea of development itself and arise in connection with the justification and practice of governmental and non-governmental development policies and in debates on international trade and global economy, polity and society.
Members are drawn from all the development studies disciplines and professions, as well as from philosophy
Convenor
Nigel Dower (Email: n.dower@aberdeen.ac.uk Tel: 01224 272 369)
Forthcoming Events
1st Call for paper proposals
Workshop on :
Peace, Security and Sustainability:
Exploring Ethics in Development
27th-28th March 2006
St Edmund's College, Cambridge
There has been considerable discussion on issues related to conflict and development and conflict and human security issues on the one hand, the potential role of environmental resources in triggering or exacerbating conflicts on the other hand. The proposed workshop aims to bring together discussions on issues straddling these different debates.
Some of the strands we have in mind are the following:
(a) global public goods, international organisations and balancing
economics and ethics of international institutions and policies
(b) re-examining ethical foundations of discourses of security and discourses
of development
(c) searching for ethical content in assessing, monitoring and achieving
the Millennium Development Goals
(d) beyond accountability rhetoric- embedding ethics in governance debates
(e) environmentalism, global citizenship and exploring the need for
new interpretations of sustainability
(f) examining capability approach and other alternative approaches in
dealing with tragic disasters.
Ideas for other strands are welcome.
This is a collaborative effort of the Environmental Resources and Sustainable Development (ERSD) study group (P.B.Anand), Development Ethics study group (Des Gasper, Nigel Dower) both of the Development Studies Association (DSA), the Capability and Sustainability Centre at the St Edmond’s College in Cambridge (Flavio Comim), and the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey (Yacob Mulugetta).
Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of International Development. Other publication plans are in discussion.
If you are interested in presenting a paper at the Workshop, please submit a detailed abstract not to exceed 1,000 words as an email attachment to reach us by 10th January 2006. If you are interested in organising a new strand, get in touch with us ASAP.
P.B. Anand (p.b.anand@bradford.ac.uk)
Des Gasper (gasper@iss.nl)
Past Events:
EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY
This call is for papers for a collaborative meeting to be held in December 2004 of four DSA study groups - the Poverty group, the Economics group, the Development Ethics and Research Students study groups. It will be focused around the annual DSA/ESRC postgraduate autumn methodology and epistemology workshop.
A seminar registration announcement will be made in July. It is proposed that a set of collected papers will be put forward for a journal special issue. Details of the seminar will be posted on the Development Studies Association website, or please contact Andy Sumner ((Email: a.p.sumner@uel.ac.uk) or John Cameron (E-mail. John.cameron@uea.ac.uk).
More information on how to submit papers, please download this Word document
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