…The Children and Youth thematic group is happy to share a revised literature review on children and the capability approach, updated as of March 2019. This is the result of a collective effort among TG members to help scholars and practitioners to navigate across existing materials. Click here to download….
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New Book: “Capability-promoting policies: Enhancing individual and social development”
Edited by Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalized in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and…
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Amartya Sen Selected as Routledge ‘Great Economist’
…Amartya Sen is being featured in the Routledge ‘Great Economists Series.’ A collection of articles about Sen’s work published in Routledge journals can be found on the Taylor & Francis website: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/bes/great-economists/great-economists-sen…
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Ph.D. in International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development
…ith courses, seminars, and scientific research activities held entirely in English, it addresses the complexities involved in sustainable development and uses an innovative multidisciplinary approach that combines the contributions of law, ethics, and economics. VACANCIES: 5 Doctoral Research Positions The LEES program is seeking five outstanding and committed students to carry out a three-year multidisciplinary research project. Here, the call fo…
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Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics special issue
…cies, and threatened food systems. These vulnerabilities are rooted in a structurally unjust global order. At the same time, governments face the growing vulnerability and precarity of entire populations. Migration of large populations in the face of environmental change, including across national boundaries, challenges institutions of governance and assistance, if not the conceptual foundations of the nation-state. Examining the ethical dimension…
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19th D. S. Borker Memorial Lecture: “My Vision of India: 2047 A.D.”
…sm. This series is unique in that it has consistently showcased ideas and forward-looking agendas, often contrarian ideas and agendas, across a remarkable spectrum. Debate, after all, is an intrinsic and invaluable part of a democratic and secular India….
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WEBINAR: On Capability, Human Development and Their Measurement
Friday, 22 June 2018, 9 am UK Key-Note Address of the Cambridge Capability Conference by Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York We invite you all to join us for a webinar where we will broadcast as a webinar the Key-Note address of the Cambridge Capability Conference which will take place this Friday, 22 June 2018 at 9:00am UK time. Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York, will address the conference on the topic ‘On Capability, Human Deve…
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ZIF Summer School 2017 – Universität Bielefeld
…ative to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Experts in the field are recruited in order to provide the best knowledge and skills to the participants. This summer school introduces to a multi-disciplinary audience of early stage researchers (PhD students & postdocs) the Fuzzy Set Approach, a cutting-edge alternative to traditional means of poverty measurement which goes beyond binary and monetarist models of poverty and offers new perspectives a…
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HDCA WEBINAR: Children during the Pandemic: A View from the CA
September 22, 2020 13.00-14.30 (UK time), 9.00-10.30 (Buenos Aires), 22.00-23.30 (Sydney) This webinar aims to shed light on the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on children by looking at it through the capabilities approach. It brings together three scholars from different corners of the globe, who will discuss the situation of children in their own regions, and how this may speak to concerns about the effects that the pandemic has had on…
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Call for Papers: Third CAMBRIDGE CAPABILITY CONFERENCE (CCC) – 2018
“ON CAPABILITY INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT” CALL FOR PAPERS Cambridge has been home to many researchers working on the Capability Approach. In 2016 we launched a new series of annual capability conferences along similar lines as the early capability conferences that we initiated back in 2001. The main objective was to recreate the intimate intellectual atmosphere, in-depth discussions and time for exchanges, having one hour per p…