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Call for Papers – Annual Global Justice Conference 2020

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“Build Back Better: Reducing Vulnerabilities, Strengthening Justice”

On the 12th – 15th November 2020 ASAP Global, ASAP Brazil, Quinnipiac Albert Schweitzer Institute and the Global Justice Program at Yale University will be jointly hosting this years Annual Justice Conference, which will be taking place online.

The aim of the Conference is to gather national and international specialists in order to extend the academic studies concerning the battle against poverty, misery and vulnerabilities. The Conference will concentrate its activities towards the following subjects:

  1. COVID-19 and its Unequal Impacts
  2. Environmental Crisis
  3. Historical Oppression, Colonialism, & Racism Today
  4. Social & Economic Vulnerabilities, Universal Safety Net & Basic Income, Right to Development & Sustainable Development Goals (UN).

Deadline For Abstracts is the 10th August and you can find details of the call along with submission information – here

BLACK LIVES MATTER

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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

Redefining migration discourse: Learning from the past to create an inclusive economy at King’s College London on the 14th June

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The symposium convened by ASAP, Global Justice Now and Club de Madrid aims to critically analyse the structural shifts and reorientation in attitudes and rhetoric that need to be taken regarding migration related policy decision making. The debate will use evidenced based research to challenge the underpinning assumptions currently driving migration related decision making processes.

Registrations to attend the event can be made through this link

Convening thought leaders in policy, research and civil society this discussion series challenges the wider framing of austerity politics and asks the question, where do we go from here?

This colloquium will be the first in a series and will explore the ways in which policy makers and other influential actors can shift negative attitudes towards migrants and migration, and identify what positive citizenship looks like in this context. The colloquium will be convened to determine what effective inclusive economy, migration policy and processes should look like in a shared societies context. We define an inclusive economy as one which there is better systems and opportunities for more broadly shared prosperity especially for those facing the greatest barriers to advancing their well-being.

Academics Stand Against Poverty and Global Justice Now are pleased to welcome members of World Leadership Alliance, Club de Madrid, Jigmi Thinley, Prime Minister of Bhutan from April 2008 to April 2013 and WLA-CdM NetPLUSS Member Kinga Göncz, Foreign Minister of Hungary from 2006 to 2009, and subsequently a member of the European Parliament to lead a discussion on what different countries can learn from each other about how to build a more inclusive society. 

They will be joined on the panel by:

  • Laura Hammond, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS
  • Frances Webber, Vice-chair of the Institute of Race Relations Council of Management and prosecutor at the Permanent Peoples Tribunal of the London Hearing “Putting the Hostile Environment on Trial”
  • Yva Alexandrova-Meadway, Policy and Campaigns Manager with Consonant

The morning panel will be chaired by Myles Wickstead, Visiting Professor (International Relations) at King’s College London and Associate Professor at the University of Exeter.

The afternoon panel will be chaired by Helen Yanacopulos, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

10th INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE: NATURE – HUMAN – CULTURE combined with the launch of the ASAP-Poland

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Cracow | Poland  | 13-16 June 2019

We are pleased to invite you to the 10th Interdisciplinary Conference on Nature–Human–Culture combined with the launch of the Polish Chapter of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), held in cooperation with Academics Stand Against Poverty and the support of the Pedagogical University of Cracow.

The event will be held in Cracow, Poland on June 13-16, 2019.

The launch of ASAP-Poland will be supported by the special panel Poverty and Development and a book publication

This Conference will bring together researchers from around the world who are engaged in a variety of different topics in a field of Humanities, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Health and Medical Sciences and Art

https://nck2019.up.krakow.pl/

Official language of the Conference is English.

https://nck2019.up.krakow.pl/

2017 Amartya Sen Prize Awarded to Mattia Anesa

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2017 Amartya Sen Prize Recipient Mattia Anesa
The fourth annual Amartya Sen Prize was awarded on 27 October, 2017 by Academics Stand Against Poverty and Global Financial Integrity for the best original essay on the moral assessment of tax dodging. This year’s recipient is Mattia Anesa, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.

The award was presented during the first day of the conference Onslaughts on the Poor: Corruption, Emissions, Violence, jointly organized by Yale University, Academics Stand Against Poverty and Global Financial Integrity, during which Mattia presented his work to the conference audience.

Welcome to ASAP

Established in 2010, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international community of academics confronting the rules and practices that perpetuate global poverty. Our evidence-based approach provides:

• alternatives to conventional analysis by media and governmental organizations,
• proposals for reforming national and supranational rules and policies,
• public education encouraging citizens to understand and engage with critical issues.

Academics Stand Against Poverty is registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States (EIN #32-0324998)

Our Board

Our board includes leading academics from a variety of fields, all with a passionate interest in poverty alleviation.
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Our Mission

We seek the elimination of global poverty, as guided by rigorous evidence-based and normative scholarship.
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