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Below we list all ASAP news updates. If you want, you can also choose to see only the specific news updates concerning our upcoming events or our Impact Interviews.

You can also view our most recent newsletters to learn what the ASAP network has been delivering. Links to the most recent editions are listed below:

Autumn 2019:  https://mailchi.mp/0ef0ea89fd51/academics-stand-against-poverty-october-newsletter-2019

Winter 2018: https://mailchi.mp/137b832448ff/asap-winter-533471

Summer 2018: https://mailchi.mp/1b82db01d89d/asap-update-board-additions-brazil-conference-chapter-news

Conference 2017: https://mailchi.mp/a2f1b3eb7cc4/2017-asap-global-justice-conference-with-ralph-nader-27-29-october-302363

Sen Prize call 2017: https://mailchi.mp/622303a588cf/reminder-fourth-annual-amartya-sen-essay-prize-submissions

Summer 2017: https://mailchi.mp/429fa17a21c8/exciting-news-from-asap

Spring 2017: https://mailchi.mp/eb2d2266fe25/relaunching-the-asap-uk-newsletter-151167

Summer 2015: https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=098b142792357c7a0d980ed67&id=b8


BLACK LIVES MATTER

2020-06-11 By ASAP Global

ASAP recognizes that, to stand against poverty, we must stand against racism. We are committed to the worldwide effort to overcome racism everywhere: in policing and the penal system, in housing and credit, in education and employment, in health care and social security, in politics and the media, in our hearts and minds and everyday lives. Everywhere. Black Lives Matter.

In our world, poverty and racism are deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing. Impoverization through racist law, policy and practice facilitates the violence, marginalization and discrimination that has brought us to this moment.

ASAP stands in solidarity with the global movement for Black lives taking place in the US, UK, South Africa, Syria and around the world. This moment requires action! Stand with us:

•    Support the Movement for Black Lives call for economic justice and    invest-divest (invest in community and divest from policing).

•    Join and/or endorse Scholars for Black Lives – #S4BL

•    Learn and share anti-racism resources:

An Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi

Communities United Against Police Brutality

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Mutual Aid and Restorative Justice

National Bail Out – #FreeBlackMamas

Reclaim the Block

•    Follow and amplify movement work on social media:

#BlackLivesMatter Global Network

#DefundthePolice

#PoliceFreeCampus

#SayTheirNames

#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

#JusticeForBre #IRunWithMaud

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New developments in Colombia

2019-10-03 By ASAP Global

Paula Casal, Chapter Lead for ASAP Spain connected with colleagues in Colombia during the Summer of 2019.

Having spoken to colleagues in both the Universidad EAFIT and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the group of over 30 academics convened by Antonio Barboza, Constitutional Law Professor at Universidad EAFIT, have decided to convene a follow-up meeting later this year.

This event will include academics from different universities across Colombia to discuss how their respective research relates to “the structural drivers of poverty” in order to come together to agree on areas the new emerging ASAP Colombia chapter can work on with a view to organising a formal launch of ASAP Colombia in 2020.

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The Launch of ASAP Poland

2019-10-03 By ASAP Global

The newest ASAP chapter was launched in June 2019 during at the 10th Interdisciplinary Conference on NATURE–HUMAN–CULTURE at the Pedagogical University of Cracow.

J.Pieczara, M.Krupska-Klimczak and M.Apollo (the ASAP Poland organizing committee)

The event sought to promote responsible, sustainable and fair development at both a local and global level, and was also an opportunity to launch the Polish Chapter of ASAP. The Conference was jointly organized by the Pedagogical University of Cracow, ASAP and the European Foundation for Cooperation and Science, under the aegis of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, HE Jarosław Gowin as well as the Rector of Pedagogical University of Cracow, Prof. Dr Hab. Kazimierz Karolczak.

The event was attended by participants from a number of countries, bringing together 50 academics including Dr Muhammad Ashfaq, Senior Lecturer, Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands and CEO of Amanah Institute of Islamic Finance and Economics, and two ASAP Board Members, Professor Thomas Pogge (Yale University) and Professor Pahlaj Moolio (Pannasastra University of Cambodia).

Note: The Statement of the Polish ASAP Chapter can be found at the ASAP website [http://academicsstand.org/about/chapters/poland/] 

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Interdisciplinary international program on “Ethics, Economics, Law and Politics” at Ruhr University’s Institute of Philosophy in Bochum

2019-10-03 By ASAP Global

The programme was part of a graduate-level course for an interdisciplinary international program on “Ethics, Economics, Law and Politics” at Ruhr University’s Institute of Philosophy in Bochum held in July 2019.

ASAP Board member and ASAP Cambodia chapter lead, Pahlaj Moolio of the Paññasastra University of Cambodia, ran an exploratory workshop, to supplement the knowledge to students of their fields of study. The event included 5 speakers from universities in China, Pakistan, the Netherlands, and the US covering the broad issues of poverty, climate change, environment, health, and technology. The workshop engaged 20 students from over 10 countries and regions including Africa, Asia, America, and the EU. 

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Annual Conference 2019, 1st – 3rd November (Yale and Quinnipiac Universities)

2019-10-03 By ASAP Global

The conference, led by Yale Global Justice Program, the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University, and ASAP will bring together academics, policymakers and NGO leaders for practice-oriented presentations and discussion. We plan to host a total of nine sessions: three longer morning panels, and six shorter afternoon sessions.

For the morning panels, keynote speakers include Branko Milanovic, Bridget Conley, and Alex de Waal. Branko Milanovic is a former World Bank researcher and is currently a professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of “Global Inequality, the Haves, and the Have-Nots”. He will set the stage for the conference by presenting a historical perspective on inequality and by analyzing the dynamics of ongoing globalization: the main forces and trends that are likely to shape the evolution of the world economy and international relations over the coming decades. He will outline how extreme economic inequality and competition feed and sustain atrocious violence, which then, in turn, aggravates massive poverty and other deprivations.

The other panels will focus on problems closely related to, if not directly caused by, extreme inequality at both global and domestic level: first, political corruption and (lack of) access to political life; and second, the role, priorities, and constraints of NGOs; third, race and incarceration.

For more details about registration please contact: global@academicsstand.org

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