Announcement:

Denis Goulet Memorial Prize:

Second Round 2011

Background:

In 2005 the Board of the International Development Ethics Association first considered the idea of a Prize called the Denis Goulet Prize to honour the work of Denis Goulet, who can be regarded as the spiritual father of the International Development Ethics Association and indeed the newly emerging discipline of development ethics. Tragically since then he has died, after a long battle with cancer, on December 27th 2006. We then renamed the Prize the Denis Goulet Memorial Prize.

Denis Goulet had been associated with the International Development Ethics Association ever since its inception in Costa Rica in 1987. He was an inspiration to many IDEA members, in that his writing promoted a serious concern for ethical and normative issues in development over a period when mainstream thinking had no interest in this approach.

This Prize will be offered from time to time, usually in the period following an IDEA international conference, which is open to any student in undergraduate and graduate programs, whether or not they have attended a recent international conference. (But this does not apply to someone who is in a professional position but also doing a degree at a later stage in their career, or to someone already involved in a Post Doc position.) We particularly want students from economically poorer countries to take part in this, and hope that academics who hear about this Prize will encourage their students to enter.

The winners of the prize will have the recognition by IDEA of the standing of his or her essay in the eyes of the panel of IDEA judges, and his or her essay will be posted on the IDEA website. Whilst we cannot guarantee that it would be accepted in an academic journal, the expectation of the judges in awarding the Prize would be that the paper would be of an acceptable standard, and a note to the effect that that the paper won the IDEA Denis Goulet Prize in Development Ethics in 2007 (or whatever later year it is) may be added to it. In addition IDEA will offer free registration at the next international conference which the student can attend, along with a modest honorarium.

2nd Round:

Papers are invited, following the Ninth International Conference of the International Development Ethics Association at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 9-11, 2011.

Submissions by postgraduates or undergraduates of papers given at the conference are welcome but equally papers from students not attending the conference or giving papers at it are welcome.

Two Prizes are being offered this time: one for the leading essay from students from the (political) ‘South’ and one from a student from the ‘North’, in order to reflect significant differences of educational background and opportunity. (This should be interpreted in the spirit intended: e.g. someone from the ‘South’ educated in Northern schools and universities or ones of comparable standing should treat himself or herself as from the North.)

Length, format etc.:

Papers should be submitted in the form of journal articles, fully referenced according to the Harvard method, between 4000-5000 words, double spaced, with 1” plus margins in A4 or letter size paper format (but capable of being sent as an email attachment in Word).

Areas relevant:

Just as Denis Goulet recognised that development ethics is both about theory and practice, a paper can cover either broad ethical issues about development in general, or it can also focus on particular cases, such as particular development projects or the policies of a particular country. It is NOT necessary that the paper should focus on or even mention the works of Denis Goulet, but familiarity with his writing and approach may be an advantage.

Deadline:

30th September, 2011. Please submit, as electronic attachments, to Jay Drydyk (jaydrydyk@gmail.com), the receiver of the entries. Each candidate should submit two files, one with the body of the text including the title with no information on it to indicate the name of the candidate, but with an indication of whether it is from the South or the North (‘S’ or ‘N’); the other with a cover page which should include student’s name, address, email, programme, institutional affiliation and also region (the South or the North (S or N).

Panel of judges for the second round:

The IDEA President in consultation with the Executive Board has appointed a panel of experienced development ethicists to assess the essays: Nigel Dower, BA, MA, PhD, TDhc, FRSA, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, former President of IDEA; Workineh Kelbessa, BA, MA, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Addis Ababa University; Lori Keleher, BA, MA, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Philosophy, New Mexico State University.