Program
\nThursday\, 13th of December 2012\, \;
2-4 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Development &ndash\; The Contributions of \; Economics&\;amp\;#8232\;
Ingrid Robeyns (Erasmus University Rotterdam): "Justice\, Development and the Assessment of \;Economic Policies\, Institutions and Systems"
Sanjay Reddy (The New School\, NY): TBA
4-4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30-6:30 pm
Panel 2: Theories of Development &ndash\; Post-Development and Justice-Based Perspectives
Aram Ziai (Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn): "Some Reflections on the \;Concept of Development"
Julian Culp (Goethe-University\, Frankfurt/M.)\, "Justice-Based Development &ndash\; A Discourse-Theoretic \;Approach"
7:15 pm
Public Lecture
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago): "Development and Human Capabilities: The Contribution \;of a Philosophical Theory of Justice."
Introduction: Rainer Forst (Goethe-University\, Frankfurt/M.)
Friday\, 14th of December 2012
10-12 pm
Panel 3: Equality\, Development and Democratic Justice
David Crocker (University of Maryland): "Agency and Democracy: Re-orienting Theories of \;Development and Justice"
Neera Chandhoke (University of Delhi): "Equality for What?"
1:30-3:30 pm
Panel 4: Development - Historical Foundations and Current Problems
Philip Lepenies (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies\, Potsdam): "Us and Them: Reflections \;on the Historical Foundations of Development"
Joseph Agbakoba (University of Nigeria at Nsukka): "The Problem of Choice and Responsibility in \;Modern Africa's Development"
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00-6:00 pm
Roundtable with Practitioners from Development Organizations
Stefan Gosepath\, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy\, Freie Universitä\;t Berlin
Angela Hariche\, Head of Unit\, Global Well-Being Networks\, OECD &ndash\; Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development\, Paris
Michael Krempin\, Senior Policy Advisor\, Corporate Development Unit\, GIZ &ndash\; German Society for \;International Cooperation\, Frankfurt/M.
Jean Saldanha\, Policy and Advocacy Officer\, CIDSE &ndash\; International Alliance of Catholic Development \;Agencies\, Brussels
Venues
The panels and the roundtable will take place in the "Eisenhower-room" of the main building\, i.e. \;the "IG Hochhaus"\, on Campus Westend. The room number of this venue is 1.314.
The public lecture will take place in lecture hall 6 of the lecture hall building\, i.e. the
"Hoersaalzentrum"\, on Campus Westend.
A map of Campus Westend\, which indicates the buildings of the venues of the panels\, the \;roundtable and the public lecture\, is available here:
www.gsefm.eu/_data/pdf/DirectionsCampusWestend.pdf
Workshop description
The &lsquo\;Beyond-GDP&rsquo\; discourse as to how to understand and measure social progress is no longer \;confined to social-scientific development researchers or other academics. Policy makers and civil \;society at national\, inter- and transnational levels are engaged in discussing and devising concepts \;and indicators that would facilitate assessing social progress domestically and globally. \;Examples \;include the &lsquo\;Sarkozy-Commission&rsquo\; on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social \;Progress\, the study commission on Growth\, Wellbeing and Quality of Life of the German parliament \;and the European Framework for Measuring Progress of the EU.
In addition\, the expiring of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 currently provokes \;members of development institutions to reflect upon and search for a post-2015 normative \;framework for orienting international development policy. Several non-governmental organizations \;are deliberating about how to re-think development\, for instance\, the Beyond2015 campaign. And \;in the aftermath of the &lsquo\;Rio+20&rsquo\; UN Conference on Sustainable Development the UN already \;actively promotes &lsquo\;Sustainable Development Goals&rsquo\;.
What is striking about these processes of opinion and will formation is how little attention they pay \;to theories of (global) justice. This is perplexing not only because theorizing justice has played \;such an important role in political philosophy and theory throughout the last decades\, but also \;because according to a very influential understanding justice is the &lsquo\;first virtue of social \;institutions&rsquo\;. Accordingly\, one should expect that the various processes of opinion and will \;formation would be far more sensitive to the question as to what social progress and sound \;development policy would mean from the point of view of (global) justice.
This neglect is even more curious in light of the fact that the concepts of justice and development \;are often employed in very similar ways. Conceptions of both of these concepts usually outline a \;social ideal or provide a normative source of critique of existing social relations. Theories of justice \;ask both what an ideally just society would involve and what would effectively contribute to less \;injustice today. Likewise\, theories of development in the social sciences also consider what would \;be the ultimate goal of social change and criticize actual social conditions for reflecting an \;underdeveloped state of affairs. Despite of these similarities of the aims and critical functions of \;the usage of the two concepts\, few attempts have been made so far to clarify the conceptual \;relation and tensions between them.
The workshop aims at filling this gap by bringing together political philosophers and theorists as \;well as scholars working in development economics and social-scientific development research so \;as to exchange their understandings of both justice and development. The workshop thereby \;provides a dialogue platform that could enable enriching both theories of justice and of \;development. Eventually it will also make more intelligible as to why the conceptions of (global) \;justice have failed to attract more attention in the ongoing debates about social progress and \;development policy.
Attendance of the workshop is free. Except for the public lecture registration is required for \;organization and catering purposes by November 28. \;Places are limited\, and will be assigned on a first come\, first serve basis. \;In order to register\, please contact Ms Valé\;rie Bignon: \;bignon@em.uni-frankfurt.de