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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, to n.dower at 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.
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