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  1. In Memoriam – Stephan Klasen

    …Stephan will be missed inconsolably by his wife Christine, four children, Lukas, Nicolas, Sophia, and Jeremias, and by innumerable friends, students and colleagues, the world over. But the greatest loss is for the better world that he sought unrelentingly. – Sanjay G. Reddy        …

  2. In Memoriam: Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia

    …opriately?), he and Richard Jolly co-authored and edited The Impact of the World Recession on Children, the first work to report on the significant deterioration in the conditions of children associated with the world recession. This was followed by the two volume study, Adjustment with a Human Face, which we co-authored. The volumes reported on the further deterioration in the circumstances of children throughout Africa and Latin America, associa…

  3. RECORDING AVAILABLE: Exploring COVID from an Indigenous People perspective

    …ne 26, 2020 at 5:30 PM – 7 PM UTC+01 View the recording: https://hd-ca.org/videos/hdca-webinar-exploring-covid-from-an-indigenous-people-perspective Download the list of panelists The indigenous experience is very different than that of the larger country where they live. Indigenous people often are marginalized, unseen, and forgotten – resulting in a very different experience of COVID than other groups. From a history of pandemics and indigenous…

  4. Call for Papers: XVII Biennial IASC Conference ‘In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation, and Action’

    …eos, and posters to be presented at this conference, to be held in Lima, Peru, from 1 to 5 July 2019. https://www.iasc2019.org/. The meeting will be held in the PUCP’s Lima campus and will be hosted by both PUCP’s Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Department of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: December 1, 2018 Download the Call for Papers here With the theme of the confe…

  5. Call for Submissions: International Workshop on Empowerment, capacity and capability (Berlin)

    …erence to issues of development, the concept has since spread all over the world, as a more general attempt to conceptualize freedom, inequalities and justice (Salais & Villeneuve, 2004; Leonardis et al., 2012; Subramanian et al., 2013; Otto & Ziegler, 2014). These many ways to promote the concept of capability resulted in giving it its multi-faceted meaning and favouring its spread; they have, however, hampered conceptual clarity. Related to the

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