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  1. 2025 HDCA Conference – Bradford, UK

    September 1-5, 2025

    Hosted by the University of Bradford

    “Culture, Peace and Capabilities”

    At the heart of the capability approach (CA) is the idea of human flourishing. However, human flourishing is challenging, and in some cases, not possible, in a world of conflict and insecurity – whether between nations, or between groups within a country or between individuals at the micro-level of a society.

    The foundational ideas of the CA (of both Sen and Nussbaum schools) envision a society where constitutional guarantees and deliberative public reasoning provide for the protection of minorities and disadvantaged individuals, and at a theoretical level these should be the starting points for building institutions to mitigate against conflict and to resolve conflicts where these appear.

    As we welcome the community of the ‘Human Development and the Capability Association’ to the University of Bradford where the UK’s first Peace Studies Department was founded in 1973, the idea of connecting the CA with peace is an exciting and significant theme to explore. Bradford is also celebrating being the UK ’City of Culture 2025’. The year-long celebration recognizes the contributions made by generations of waves of immigrants over the last two centuries.

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  2. WEBINAR: Capability as informational basis for work and employment politics – a European re-search experience

    April 21 at 4 pm CET Sponsored by the HDCA Work & Employment Thematic Group One of the opportunities our thematic network offers is to take stock of capability theories and concepts in the field of employment and work. The upcoming webinar is an exercise in such stock-taking: three members of the TG will look back on a collaborative experience in a pivotal European integrated Project. In CAPRIGHT (Resources, Rights and Capabilities: In search of…

  3. WEBINAR: Facing Inequality: Multidimensional Poverty in the U.S

    …lopment Economics Research. In 2012, she was awarded the Nancy and Richard Ruggles Prize by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, which is given for the best research paper by a young scholar under the age of 35. She has also received the Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award at Georgia Tech, was a fellow with the Society for Economic Measurement, and was a Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow at Georgia Tech. She received her M.A…

  4. Call for Abstract / Papers for an Edited Volume: “Application of Capability Approach to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”

    …rsity, UK. His research interests (in the interdisciplinary fields of law, politics/IR, & international development) include international law & global development; the rule of law & economic development process; human development & capability approach; poverty-conflict nexus; inequality, crime, injustice, and development. • Relevant publications: – Ikejiaku, Brian, Migration, Poverty, the Role State, Law and Development in the Industrialised Coun…

  5. Overcoming Intolerance: Nussbaum and Her Critics conference

    …day interrogating her recent The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (Harvard University Press, 2012). Nussbaum argues that we can rise about the politics of fear and toward a more open and inclusive future by expanding our capacity for empathetic imagination and establishing a consistent ethic of decency and civility building off of her past work. Conference speakers include Thom Brooks (Law, Durham), Clar…

  6. Extended CFP deadline- A World United: Allies in Ethical Development

    …and across nation states, corporations, multinational groups, NGOs, etc. A World United, the eleventh congress of the International Development Ethics Association, will be held conjointly with the seventh conference on development, Collective Action and Development, of GREThA (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée). All participants are welcome to attend both conference sessions. The two conferences will take place in the same ven…

  7. CALL FOR PAPERS – Corona: Challenging Social Work

    …onsequences show how important it is to think beyond national boundaries. Crucially, it has now become important to emphasize the need for international solidarity and exchanges. In terms of social interaction, the lockdowns will result in other morally problematic consequences. Children in so-called “educationally disadvantaged” households or from precarious backgrounds receive less support from home in coping with so-called home schooling. Many…

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