A collaborative workshop between the Development Studies Association Ireland (Civil Society Working Group), Academics Stand Against Poverty-Irish Network, Basic Income Ireland. Hosted at Trinity College Dublin (10am-2pm), on 5th March 2019.
All are welcome. For more information email nitsamishra@yahoo.com
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. If you want to participate in the Conference, please register here: www.nck2019.up.krakow.pl
The fifth Amartya Sen Prize will be awarded in March 2018 by Academics Stand Against Poverty and Global Financial Integrity for the two best original essays on assessing the human impact of illicit financial flows out of Africa. This year’s winning recipient is Kenneth Okpomo, with the second place being awarded to Janet Bolarinwa.
Both recipients will accept their prizes and prize monies personally at a social justice conference in Nairobi: \”Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization and Stemming Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs): Enhancing Institutionalised International Cooperation and local capacity for DRM\”; 12th – 15th March 2019, Hekima Jesuit University College Peace Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Kenneth Okpomo was educated at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (Enugu state) where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree (Hons) in Sociology and Anthropology. While at this university he took courses on Social Research Methodology, Sociological Theories & Analysis, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Criminology & Penology. Kenneth is currently enrolled for the Master of Science degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the National Open University of Nigeria.
He has, at various times, been a freelance journalist and writer. As an interdisciplinary scholar, his area of interests cut across the social sciences and humanities. Kenneth’s articles have appeared in mediums/channels such as The Post Express, Nigerian Voice, Gamji News, Bizness Watch International, My Spur Magazine, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
His essays (well noted for their rare insights and astute analysis) have been awarded prizes by institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, South Korea, South Africa, and Nigeria. In mid 2018, Kenneth won the first prize in the Daisy Alliance Essay Contest for his essay \”The North Korean Nuclear Conundrum: Is a Peaceful Resolution Possible?”-
He is also the recipient of the Ashridge Business School/Guardian Media Group Essay Prize (Best Overseas Category) with his essay on the challenges confronting public-sector leaders in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger-Delta region, among other awards.
Janet Oluwayinka Bolarinwa, is a Nigerian from Oyo State, who attended the University of Jos where she graduated with a BSc (Ed) in Physics Education. Subsequently Janet went on to study her Masters in Education Technology in the National University of Nigeria and his hoping to start her PhD soon.
Janet currently works as a Civil Servant in Nigeria working with the Independent National Electoral Commission.
As part of Anti Poverty week ASAP Oceania launched its report auditing the Australian Government’s progress toward meeting SDG targets. It is the first SDG audit led by the ASAP network.
Academics Stand Against Poverty Oceania (ASAP Oceania)(1). a network of academics and development professionals working in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region, has coordinated experts on several aspects of poverty to write brief, accessible responses to what the Australian Government says about poverty in the Voluntary National Review (VNR).
The report focuses on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the Australian Government released in June this year.(2).
The conclusions clearly suggest more action is needed by the Australian Government.
Excerpt: Introduction to the report (Keith Horton)
The 17 SDGs, which were adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2015, focus on a wide range of developmental and environmental targets. The first goal is ‘End poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030’, and many of the other goals are related to poverty in a broad, multi-dimensional sense of that term.
So what does the Australian Government say about poverty in the VNR, and how accurate and representative is what it says? Given the unsystematic nature of the VNR and the heterogeneity of its contents, it wasn’t easy to provide a template for responses.
That said, we suggested that contributors construct their responses around the following questions.
1. What does the AVNR write about your field of expertise? (What aspects of that field does the AVNR focus on? What are the main points the AVNR makes?)
2. Is what the AVNR writes about your field of expertise accurate and representative? (Does it potentially mislead by omission? Are the cases the AVNR focuses on representative, or are they cherry-picked? Is data provided where suitable data is available?)
3. In your view, which policies most need to be reformed to improve Australia’s performance in your field of expertise?
The linked document is the resulting report. The topics covered are Food Security, Indigenous Policy, Children and Families, Foreign Aid, Gender, Housing, Social Policy, and Disability. This of course is very far from a complete list of relevant topics, but is nonetheless broad enough to enable one to see if any common themes emerge across different sectors, and hence how systematic any failings are.
Ref
(1). http://oceania.academicsstand.org/
(2). Australian Government: Report on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (2018): https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/19592VNR_final_approved_version.pdf
DSA Call
The annual conference of the Development Studies Association will take place from 19-21 June 2019 at The Open University and will focus on \’Opening Up Development\’.
The Call for panels and roundtables for this conference is now open!
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of The Open University and so we hope you will be able to join us for this special event.
Please visit the conference website homepage, read the conference theme and then head to the call for panels page where you can make your panel and roundtable proposals using the online form. There is also an option to propose more experimental/alternative panel formats this year, so do take a look at the options available.
The deadline for proposals is 14 November 2018.
The Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari campus is organising an international conference on ‘Sustainability in the Changing Environment: Ways for Future Development’ on 12-13 November 2018.
Call for papers: Deadline 31st October
We are delighted to invite you to the ICSCE & 2nd SRC 2018 fore submission of the theoretical and empirical papers in the related disciplines of sustainability. Submissions are invited on, but not limited to the following sub-themes:
Business management in a changing environment
Economics
Climate change and sustainable development
Population, urban slums and poverty
Role of agribusiness in poverty alleviation
ICT and future development
(Registration details and deadlines are in the attached flyer)
We have a fantastic opportunity to hold an ASAP panel session in April at the Economic and Social Development Conference at HSE (Moscow). Information about the conference is below.
Can potential participants submit an abstract here: https://conf.hse.ru/en/ first and after that write to dtolkachev@hse.ru to notify the organisers that application have been submitted before 1st November.
We have a short time before the official deadline to apply for our session for ASAP. Thank you.
International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, April 9 – 12, 2019, Moscow
The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) with the support of the World Bank will be holding the 20th April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. The Conference’s Programme Committee is chaired by Professor Evgeny Yasin, HSE’s Academic Supervisor.
The Conference features a diverse agenda concerning social and economic development in Russia. The list of topics is available at
https://conf.hse.ru/en/2019/sections.
Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts of their papers for presentation at the Conference’s sessions. Proposals must be submitted through HSE’s online system at https://conf.hse.ru/en/ until November 12, 2018.
The Programme Committee will then send notifications on the acceptance of proposals (by January 25, 2019), after considering the results of reviews carried out by independent experts.
Papers included in the programme will have the opportunity of being published in leading Russian journals dedicated to economics, sociology, management, public administration, etc. (subject to additional reviews by the editorial board of a given journal). These journals are either cited in the Scopus and WoS databases or are included in the list published by the Russian Higher Attestation Commission.
The Conference’s working languages are Russian and English.
Online registration to attend the Conference will be open until March 25, 2019. Information about previous conferences can be viewed here https://conf.hse.ru/en/2019/.
Should you have further questions feel free to contact the Organizing Committee at interconf@hse.ru.
Additionally If you interested in gender or queer theory please also write to me and Valeriya Utkina UtkinaVV@hse.ru . There is another session being hosted.
An event jointly organised by Yale\’s ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty) and Juris North. Please find the provisional programme attached, Global Justice and Crisis Conference Programme.
We have representatives of 10+ countries. This conference will bring together academics (law, political sciences, philosophy, sociology, etc.), non-governmental organisations and activists to present, explore, and discuss ways in which we may address worldwide current issues by means of global justice.
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for debate over some key issues (poverty, access, dispute resolution and terrorism) ranging between particular case studies to their global impact, and including analysis of political, sociological, legal, policy, and everyday conceptualizations. The conference will provide a forum to analyse developments, and seek to discern underlying social, legal and political processes to address them.
We will have BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters to support the event.
Free event ticket (please book in advance for this event since there is limited availability). Select the first choice from the drop down menu:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/juris-north-discussion-group-various-events-tickets-49934476363
School of International Futures (SOIF) is awarding $25,000 incubator funding as top prize for its Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award.
SOIF is recognising and supporting the next generation’s endeavours to shape the future and work to drive innovation in foresight internationally. This award understands that foresight practice includes anyone who takes a futures approach to their work to explore and understand the impacts of longer-term factors and drivers of change on the future, to better understand how different futures might evolve, and to generate insights for decisions made today.
Making an award application is a simple process. In 1000 words write down the story of one of your past projects and make a 2 minute video about what foresight work you would spend the $25k on, this can simply be you speaking to your webcam or phone camera.
If you are under 35 or you have less than 10 years of experience in strategic foresight, and are studying or professionally working in the field, then you are eligible to apply. Applications are open until 1st July 2018.
SOIF is especially keen to welcome participation from the global south and to recognise the excellent foresight work across Africa, Asia and Latin America, including supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. However, this prize is very much open to all, worldwide.
The Award will support practitioners both personally and professionally and will help create a global sensing-network of future-alert activists. It will provide a platform to showcase innovative practice from around the world.
The winner will not only receive incubator funding to develop a new foresight initiative, but also free attendance at the SOIF2018 Summer retreat as well as mentoring support to develop professionally. A number of geographic and sectoral special awards will also be made.
If you\’d like to apply, get involved as a partner or can help share the word then SOIF would love to hear from you. Please email <a href=\"mailto:award@nextgenforesight.org\" or find out more on the award website.
This year, Global Financial Integrity and Academics Stand Against Poverty will be awarding the fifth annual Amartya Sen Prizes to the two best original essays on assessing the human impact of illicit financial flows out of Africa. Entered essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a first prize of $5,000 and a second prize of $3,000.
Illicit financial flows are generally defined as cross-border movements of funds that are illegally earned, transferred, or used. Examples are funds earned through illegal trafficking in persons, drugs or weapons; funds illegally transferred through mispriced exchanges (e.g., among affiliates of a multinational corporation seeking to shift profits to reduce taxes); and funds used to bribe foreign officials. Because many African countries have large natural resource sectors and often strained administrative capacities, illicit financial flows out of African countries tend to be substantial relative to their GDP or overall trade. And because massive and severe poverty persists in these countries, their people can ill afford such losses of capital and tax revenues.
Mindful of the Sustainable Development Goals and seeking to inspire effective political action toward reducing illicit financial flows out of Africa, we are inviting essays that assess the human impact of such outflows. Your entry may focus on one or more specific countries and on one or more specific kinds of illicit financial flows. It should then estimate the magnitude of these outflows as well as the damage they do to the affected populations – for example, through depressed investment and through reduced tax revenues leading to, inter alia, lower public spending on health, education, social security and development.
We welcome authors from diverse academic disciplines and from outside the academy. Please send your entry on or before 31 October 2018 by email attachment to Tom Cardamone at tcardamone@gfintegrity.org. Essays should be stripped of self-identifying references, formatted for blind review.
