[afro-nets] Denis Goulet Prize - February 2007 Version

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Denis Goulet Prize - February 2007 Version
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Revised Announcement:
Denis Goulet Memorial Prize

First Round 2007

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 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. So we now wish
to rename the Prize the Denis Goulet Memorial Prize. Because we
would like to ensure a strong set of submissions for the first
round of the Prize, we have extended the deadline (from that
announced in November 2006) and encourage submissions of entries
by the end of March 2007. It is also for us a great sadness that
Denis could not have seen the entries for this round.

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 the 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). 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 winner 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.

Papers should be submitted in the form of journal article, 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). 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.

The IDEA President in consultation with the Executive Board will
appoint a panel of experienced development ethicists to assess
the essays.

1st Round:

The first round will take place after the IDEA conference in
July 2006. Students who gave papers at this conference are
encouraged to revise their papers and submit them. Any other
students who were not at the IDEA conference are also entitled
and encouraged to submit papers too. All papers should be
submitted by 31st March, 2007, as electronic attachments, to
Nigel Dower, convener of the panel, mailto:n.dower@abdn.ac.uk
The result will be announced on the IDEA web-site by 1st July
2007.

Panel of judges for the first round: Nigel Dower, BA, MA, PhD,
TDhc, FRSA, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen,
former President of IDEA;
Sirkku Hellsten, Docent in Moral and Social Philosophy,
University of Helsinki, Reader in Development Ethics, University
of Birmingham, Counsellor for Governance and Human Rights,
Embassy of Finland, Nairobi; and
Workineh Kelbessa, BA, MA, PhD, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Philosophy, Addis Ababa University.