International Development Ethics Association
Welcome to the webpage of the International Development Ethics Association. This website provides news about recent and future discussions and research on development ethics. The Member Directory profiles IDEA members and provides email contact with them.
IDEA promotes ethical discussion of development: the nature of ethically desirable development, ethical means for achieving development, and ethical dilemmas arising in the practice of development. IDEA members include researchers and students from a range of academic disciplines pertaining to development, along with practitioners working with a variety of development NGOs, agencies, and institutions.
The Human Development and Capability Association are holding their Annual Conference in New Delhi, 10-13 September 2008, hosted by the Institute for Human Development. Conference Theme: Equality, Inclusion and Human Development. For more information go to: www.capabilityapproach.com/conference.
The University of Bergen announces the first edition of the Bergen Summer Research School on Global Development Challenges, to be held in Bergen, Norway, 7-17 August, 2008. You will find the application form and more information about the BSRS on their website www.gdc.uib.no. The deadline for submitting the application form is April 15, 2008.
"Questioning Cosmopolitanism" will be the theme of the Second Biennial Conference of the International Global Ethics Association, hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia 26-28 June 2008. NIgel Dower (past President of IDEA from 2002- 2006) will give one of the keynote presentations, on "Questioning the Questioning of Cosmopolitanism." For full details about the conference and about submitting papers go to http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/icg/igea08conf