Call for papers: Religion, poverty and politics
The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) organize a conference on "Religion, poverty and politics" in order to explore ways in which poverty and social injustice are addressed by different religious actors and communities.
While poverty and social injustice are glaring social facts in many societies, they are often conceptualized differently by different religious strands. The ways in which poverty and social injustice are understood may reveal not only fundamental differences from secular approaches and between different religious interpretations, but also qualitatively different ways in which poverty is addressed. The question of poverty and social injustice may e.g. involve withdrawal and isolation, non-action, or action against poverty through spiritual, ritual, organizational and/or political means.
The conference will focus on how poverty and social injustice are understood, e.g. as caused by human, material or spiritual conditions, the focus of this conference are questions of interpretation, practice and change rather than discourses on economic growth, democracy and development.
Deadline for abstracts is 15 November, 2012.
May 3 2013, 14.15-16.00 / IMER, Univ of Bergen
Potential contributions of migrant rights movements of Latin American origin to the emergence of counter-hegemonic paradigms of human rights- comparative aspects in the Euro-African and global context.
“Food Futures” is an invitation to think creatively on the potential for change and transformation of our food systems and how research can help define and achieve these visions.
Public round table session held at the "Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South" workshop.
Latin America experienced six years of sustained economic growth from 2003 to 2008, But the reduction in poverty and inequality is not a simple consequence of economic growth Roxana Maurizio show in this new CROP Poverty brief.
This new CROP Poverty Brief discuss how accurate the assessments of poverty reduction are, and if it is analytically correct to credit the MDGs with being a major driver of poverty reduction.
The newsletter is a way of sharing with CROPNet, colleagues and friends the events and news that involved CROP during the second semester of 2012.
This edition of the Digest covers the period mid-August to mid-December 2012, and contains topics related to "Global Social Policies: Redistribution, Regulation and Rights."
Feb 14-16, 2013 / Yale University, USA
This conference will bring together academic, advocacy, and policy communities to address the structural roots of global poverty relating to illicit financial flows and tax policy, the post-2015 development agenda, climate change, and global health.
Chair of CROP, Prof. Thomas Pogge, spoke about the Millennium Development Goals in a keynote address, held at RSA, Nov 20th, 2012.
The New School, Malcolm Klein Conference Room, 17:30-19:30, Jan 30th, 2013
Equity for Children hosts the New York premiere of the documentary film: "When Home is the Street"
Low-Socioeconomic Status and poverty can have profound effects on the brain and body, and thus influence both mental and physical health.
Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international network helping scholars, teachers and students enhance their impact on global poverty.
It has been compiled by member of CROP Scientific Committee Bob Deacon, and Alexandra Kaasch, Sunil Kumar, and Antoni Verger. Branka Marijan provided research assistance.
Toronto, Canada / October 25-27, 2012
The conference will mark the launch of ASAP Canada, to engage Canadian themes and audiences.
Deadline: December 1st, 2012
Ideal candidates are distinguished members of the international Science and Humanities community with an outstanding track record in poverty and development research. The call is open to potential candidates from all parts of the world. We particularly encourage nominations of researchers based in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Member of CROP Scientific Committee Prof. Bob Deacon argues that the UN Social Protection Floor Initiative is one of the most important developments in global policy in recent years.
CROP, in cooperation with Zed Books, requests entries for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2012. The winner will receive NOK 50.000. Deadline is August 1.
The newsletter is a way of sharing with CROPNet, colleagues and friends the events and news that involved CROP during the first semester of 2012.
Member of CROP Scientific Committee Isabel Ortiz has co-edited several new publications related to child poverty problematics.
This new essay by Chair of CROP Prof. Thomas Pogge comments on the latest (March 2012) World Bank update on world poverty.
CROP is pleased to announce that it will collaborate with ISSC and IHDP to organise the first series of World Social Science (WSS) Seminars.
April 12-13, 2012 / Yale University
ASAP's (Academics Stand Against Poverty) One Year Anniversary Conference. Speakers will be: Philip Alston, Nicole Hassoun, Branko Milanovic, Thomas Pogge, Gustav Ranis, and Paul Slovic.
2011 has been an especially significant year as CROP has been adjusting to its new institutional setting within the University of Bergen which is intended to guarantee CROP’s sustainability as well as the accomplishment of its historical objectives.
It has been compiled by member of CROP Scientific Committee Bob Deacon, along with Alexandra Kaasch and Antoni Verger. Branka Marijan provided invaluable research assistance.
CROP is pleased to announce that it has made an agreement with Scandinavian University Press to publish this classic book on poverty research for free download.
March 14, 2012 / Mexico D.F.
An event open to the public will be held in association with the "Poverty and Peasant Persistence in the Contemporary World" workshop.
March 13-15, 2012 / Mexico D.F.
The CROP and El Colegio de México seminar is available to watch online.
The World Development Report 2012 "Gender Equality and Development" (GED), represents a new push to raise the profile of gender equality among a variety of official development actors.
The newsletter is a way of sharing with CROPNet, colleagues and friends what CROP has been doing during the last semester of 2011 and to give a glimpse of what is planned for the first part of 2012.
Deadline for applications: 27 Sept, 2010
The CLACSO-CROP Programme on Poverty Studies in Latin American and the Caribbean invites applications with the theme "Poverty and Universal Social Protection: Latinamerican experiences and comparative perspectives".
Alicia Puyana Mutis & Samwel Ong´wen Okuro. [Editors] CLACSO-CROP. Series. CLACSO, Buenos Aires, Junio de 2011
The latest issue includes input from many researchers affiliated with CROP.
It has been compiled by member of CROP Scientific Committee Bob Deacon, along with Alexandra Kaasch, Sunil Kumar and Antoni Verger.
Prof. Thomas Pogge, Chair of the CROP Scientific Committee, presents a proposal to change the way medicines are developed and sold to the poor.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) need to be deepened with comprehensive policies for radical structural reform if human development is to make genuine progress and the MDGs are to materialise equitably, writes Gabriele Koehler.
Prof. Hartley Dean explores the concept of global social citizenship, and asks if freedom from poverty ever can be an enforceable right?
CROP Fellow Prof. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo discusses the dangers migrants face as they journey to US, in an interview with Al Jazeera.
The GSP Digest is produced by the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP) in collaboration with the International Council for Social Welfare (ICSW).
This new book published by Springer provides a global perspective, situating small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on poverty, fisheries management and development.
Sebastián J. Lipina and Martha Farah argues that poverty affects cognition, academic achievement and mental health.
Three of the books in the CROP International Studies in Poverty Research are on sale by way of The Book Depository.
The GSP Digest is produced by the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP) in collaboration with the International Council for Social Welfare (ICSW).
Zed Books is a critical and dynamic publisher, committed to increasing awareness of important international issues and to promoting diversity, alternative voices and progressive social change.
Gudmund Hernes, Ex-officio member of the CROP Scientific Committee, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Bergen.
With each global initiative launched to improve children's lives, it becomes clearer that the promotion of equality and reduction of disparities among children hold a key to the success of these efforts, write Alberto Minujin and CROP fellow Enrique Delamonica.
CROP Fellow Prof. Karima Korayem assesses the two social policy measures in Egypt and suggests ways to raise their efficiency.
Students can now sign up for the courses offered by CLACSO over the Internet in 2011.
2-8 March, 2011
Academic Impact is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the UN in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution.
Deadline: 15 January, 2013
Paper proposals are welcome for special issue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy, edited by Gillian Brock (Auckland), Tom Campbell (CAPPE, Australia), and Thomas Pogge (Yale).
This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in cross- country comparisons.
18 March, 2011 / Litteraturhuset, Oslo
The National Committee for Research Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities (NESH), Childwatch International Research Network, and The Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO invite to a meeting on key ethical issues that researchers and students face in conducting cross-cultural research with children.
"The productive bottlenecks of progressive social policies: lessons from Costa Rica and beyond", by Juliana Martínez Franzoni & Diego Sánchez-Ancochea.
Brooks World Poverty Institute Annual Report 2010.
27 January 2011 / Oslo, Norway
Norad and SIU arrange a seminar on effects of South-North cooperation in research and higher education within the field of climate, energy, environment and development.
"Is the EU-IMF “rescue plan” dealing a blow to the Greek welfare state?" by CROP fellow Prof. Maria Petmesidou.
"International Poverty Law", first published by Zed Books in the CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, has been translated to Portuguese.
22-23 November, 2010 / Mexico City
Seminars on the subjects of "Ciencias sociales, pobreza y desigualdad social, alternativas al mundo contemporáneo" at Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología in Mexico City.
Are the MDGs and human rights complementary or conflicting? What are the consequences for the road to 2015 and beyond? Leading scholars and practitioners came together at Harvard on 22-23 March, 2010 to discuss.
Member of CROP Scientific Committee Julio Boltvinik is writing a weekly column "Economía Moral" in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
Oslo, 25-30 September 2010
Member of CROP Scientific Committee Prof. Jean Comaroff will along with John Comaroff hold several lectures at the University of Oslo, NUPI, and the Oslo University College.
8-10 September, 2010 / Manchester, UK
CROP is co-sponsoring the Chronic Poverty Centre Conference hosted by Brooks World Poverty Institute. The final programme is now available.
In this new CROP Poverty Brief, Prof. Thomas Pogge writes that while we are congratulating ourselves on how successful we all are in the fight against poverty, the FAO reported in 2009 that the number of chronically undernourished people has broken above 1 billion for the first time in human history.
The conference was held in London, November 20th 2009. The aim of the conference was to be forward looking rather than only reminiscing about the past. There were twenty speeches and over three hundred people participated.
Rather than congratulate ourselves on an increasing “global middle class”, we need to see whether, when and how middle classes may or may not align themselves with poor people and anti-poverty social agendas and policies.
Professor Bob Deacon argues that the dominant discourse of poverty alleviation needs to give way to the global politics of welfare state rebuilding.
4-6 November 2010 / Mexico City
Organized by the Global Alternative Forum of Peoples in Movement, this activity is part of the alternative visions to the 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) that will be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, November 8-11.
Ultra-poor people are often invisible groups of poor, having no one to speak up for them or assist them in assuring their rights. Extreme poverty also has a clear gendered face, as the ultra-poor are more often found among unmarried women, divorced, widowed and abandoned women than in any other social group.
"We have to help people understand that it is not difficult to eradicate extreme poverty", says Thomas Pogge at the CROP organized public roundtable 'Poor thinking: challenging dominant poverty research narratives.'
Thomas Pogge's new book is a powerful moral analysis that shows what Western states would do if they really cared about the values they profess.
The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future.
ASAP is a new organization created by Thomas Pogge, Keith Horton, and Meena Krishnamurthy to help academics have a greater impact on world poverty.
UNICEF puts social and gender-sensitive budgeting in context.
April 26-28, 2010 / New School University, New York
Equity For Children convenes the 5th International UNICEF-GPIA conference, ‘Adolescent Girls-Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies’.
29 January 2010
A co-ordinated UNICEF Strategy on Policy Advocacy and Partnerships for Children in Response to the Global Financial Crisis and Economic Slowdown.
Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) Policy Brief no. 45 (Jan 2010), by Dr. Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Senior Fellow, Asian Institute of Transport Development, New Delhi.
30 Nov 2009
Celebrating the life of Peter Townsend, The Policy Press have published a Memorial booklet edited by Alan and Carol Walker, presenting his life long work and writings on poverty and inequality
