PHA-Exchange> Denis Goulet Prize

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 from Jay Drydyk <Jay_Drydyk at carleton.ca> -----

Below is the call for entries to the Denis Goulet Prize for student work
in development ethics.  Please bring it to the attention of anyone who might
wish to apply.

Denis Goulet Prize

Denis Goulet has been associated with the International Development Ethics 
Association ever since its inception in Costa Rica in 1984. He has been 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. We wish to honour Denis 
Goulet by establishing the Denis Goulet Prize in Development Ethics. 

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).

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 a 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. Denis Goulet 
will have the opportunity to look at the best entries and contribute to the 
final decision.

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 1st January, 2007, as electronic attachments, to Nigel Dower, 
convener of the panel, to n.dower at abdn.ac.uk.. The result will be announced on 
the IDEA web-site by 1st May 2007.

Panel of judges for the first round: Nigel Dower, BA, MA, PhD, 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.




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