Call for Papers
11th EADI General Conference
Bonn, 21-24 September 2005
Insecurity and development:
Regional issues and policies for an interdependent world
Introduction
Procedure for submitting conference papers
Timetable
Conference website
Partners
Poster sessions
Working Group Sessions
Aid Policy and Performance Working Group
EU development co-operation
Environment and Development Ad hoc Working Group
The environment and security of the population in developing countries
Europe and Latin America Working Group
Latin America: Development, insecurity and exclusion. How to sort out this dilemma?
Gender and Development Working Group
Shaping security - Strengthening solidarity
Governance and Development Working Group
Multilevel governance, development and security
Industrialisation Strategies Working Group
Industrialisation as an engine of sustained development? The prospects and problems of stable growth and capability building.
Information Management Working Group
“Secure in the knowledge?” Managing Information for development. Practical approaches to delivering and accessing information onhuman security issues.
Law and Development Working Group
“Legal pluralism, access to justice and human security”
Regionalisms and Development Working Group
New regionalisms - Old inequalities and insecurities
Science and Technology for Development Working Group
Experiences with the implementation of new technologies in development: Have they really reduced poverty and insecurity in developing and developed countries?
Europe and Latin America / Transformations in the World System – Comparative Studies in Development Working Groups
From development to decline: The modernisation trap and the inability to respond to new challenges
Transnational Corporations and Development Working Group
TNCs, development and insecurity
Urban Governance Working Group
Urban livelihoods, inequality and conflict: Governing cities in an insecure world
Introduction
Insecurity and development:
Regional issues and policies for an interdependent world
History did not end with the end of the Cold War. New threats are looming, both within the nation states and beyond. Civil wars, ethnic conflicts, international terrorism and transnational organised crime have become more relevant threats to security than the risk of war between countries. And the perception of security risks has widened in reaction to major environmental disasters – Seveso, Chernobyl, Bhopal – or potential risks arising from man-made climate change through the burning of fossil fuels and large-scale deforestation. Finally, pandemic diseases like HIV/AIDS or SARS, which may seem to be a major threat to human security only in poor countries with inadequate health systems, can become a global threat through international travel and tourism.
Globalisation is seen by many as a threat to human security. New technologies have reduced the costs of international transport and communication. In order to improve economic efficiency and living standards, more and more countries have opened their borders to international trade in goods and services, capital movements and, to a lesser extent, migration. However, the more open countries become, the more they are exposed to risks from outside. An economic crisis in one region can become a threat to the world economy through speculative capital movements on integrated global financial markets. The new technologies of international communication and international financial markets can be used by terrorist and criminal networks to organise their activities and keep their financial resources away from the control mechanisms of nation states. The economic fallout of a major terrorist attack like September 11, 2001, slows down the world economy and affects poor countries no less than rich ones. The outbreak of an epidemic disease like SARS in a developing country can have similar systemic repercussions. Thus, even though rich and poor countries have different perceptions of what the most important security threats are, in a globalising world today’s major threat to one side can become a threat to all by tomorrow.
Economic globalisation in itself produces insecurity in both developed and developing countries. More and more people in both developed and developing countries see their jobs threatened by international competition and foreign investors. Although economic theory promises international convergence of prices and wages as a result of trade liberalisation, many countries are poorer today than in 1990. Therefore, economic globalisation requires not only rules and regulations for fair competition and credible institutions to enforce these rules, but also some international redistribution of the gains from international trade and foreign investment to those countries which are not yet able to exploit their comparative advantages and benefit from opening up to the world economy. This is the rationale of development co-operation.
Poverty and the increasing gap between and within rich and poor countries can be seen as the root cause of the interrelated threats to human security. Poverty is highly correlated with infectious diseases, environmental degradation and civil war, which make poor people even poorer. This vicious circle can be broken only through co-ordinated international efforts to alleviate poverty and strengthen the capacity of poor countries to solve their problems and prevent the spreading of threats to collective security from their territories. A narrow focus on combating the new threat of international terrorism through military operations and security measures alone will not solve the problems but make them even worse if it is not complemented by more effective development co-operation.
New holistic concepts of security include political, economic, social, cultural and ecological aspects. At the same time, there is a widening of the concept of development, leaving behind the narrow focus on economic growth of developing countries to include political freedom and participation, poverty alleviation and the provision of essential services to people in developing countries. How far do the wider concepts of security and development converge? Or do they require different sets of policies and measures? What are the implications for development strategies and development co-operation if the goal is not only economic growth and welfare, but also increasing human security for every human being in the world?
These questions cannot be answered by a single discipline alone. Interdisciplinary approaches are required to find new answers and develop appropriate strategies. EADI, the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes in the various disciplines of social sciences, focuses on such approaches. The 11th EADI General Conference in Bonn, 21-24 September 2005, hosted by the German Development Institute (GDI), will provide a forum in which to take stock of the state of the art regarding the issues related to (in)security and development.
Conceptual analysis will be complemented by approaches related to a particular discipline or geographical region. The conceptual approach will include a systematic analysis of the link between (in)security and development in its different forms. A multidisciplinary approach will allow us to reflect on the conference theme from different angles, including migration issues, social and environmental justice, natural resources and the local perception of human security, among other things. Another focus will be on regional perceptions of security issues and development perspectives. Regional panels will provide an opportunity to compare European perceptions of insecurity and development with perceptions in other world regions.
Finally, lessons will be drawn for designing policies and implementing adequate strategies at local, national, regional and global levels. What is the role of local communities and municipalities in conflict prevention and development? What are the responsibilities of governments and international institutions concerning regional and global security? What role should the EU and other regional groupings play to enhance global security and human development worldwide? As a European Association of Development Institutes, EADI has a special interest in campaigning for a stronger role of the European Union in development policy, for better co-ordination of bilateral development assistance of EU member states and for coherence of all their policies vis-à-vis developing countries in view of worldwide poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Only a common European development policy could tilt the balance towards multilateralism against the opposite tendency of unilateralism in security and development policies.
Procedure for submitting conference papers
Researchers on development issues are invited to present papers for the 11th General Conference of EADI. Papers should be related to the topics of the working group sessions of the conference. The approach to the theme may be conceptual, or it may relate to a particular field or discipline. Papers may refer to particular developing and/or transition countries or to relations between different countries and groupings or countries and regions (e.g. EU/ACP). Please consult the conference website to see the topics and to download the abstract submission form.
1. Authors will send a ONE-PAGE abstract, with a clear title, explaining the objectives of the papers as well as its methodology.
2. Papers should be related to the topics of the working group sessions of the conference.
3. The name of the author, his/her institutional affiliation, address, e-mail address and fax numbers must be clearly indicated. All abstracts should be sent by e-mail, using the submission form on the conference website. Abstracts sent by regular mail or fax will be refused. The deadline for sending abstracts to the EADI Secretariat is 28 February 2005. Papers/abstracts can be submitted either in English or in French.
4. Authors will be informed by the Secretariat no later than 30 April 2005 whether their subject has been accepted.
5. Upon acceptance of their abstract, authors will send a FULL-LENGTH PAPER to the EADI Secretariat before 30 June 2005.
The following are prerequisites for papers to be considered:
1. The text should not exceed 8,000 words.
2. The following information should be given on the front page of the paper: title of paper, name of the author, address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.
3. The abstract should be reproduced at the beginning of the full-length text.
4. The bibliography should be placed at the end of the paper; footnotes should appear at the bottom of the relevant page.
Even if an abstract has been accepted at the first stage, any paper, depending on its quality, may be refused for final presentation in the Conference. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors in the sessions of the EADI Working Groups. Therefore authors should clearly indicate to which working group they refer, but the Scientific Committee will make the final decision.
Timetable
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: 28 February 2005
Submission of papers: 30 June 2005
Conference website
We will be keeping you informed in the EADI Newsletter and on the conference website at www.eadi.org/gc2005. The website will provide you with regularly updated information on preparations for the conference, on the topics, the various sessions, the speakers, the papers, the Scientific Committee, registration and logistics.
Partners
The conference will be hosted by the German Development Institute (GDI) and organised in partnership with SID Europe, Capacity Building International (InWEnt), the Centre for Development Studies (ZEF), Bonn, and the Centre for International Co-operation Bonn (CIC Bonn).
Address
EADI Secretariat
Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 11
53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel.: +49 228 2618101
Fax: +49 228 26 18 103
E-mail:
Poster sessions
The organisers welcome poster submissions. Poster submissions will be accepted as from 1 February 2005. Please check the conference website and watch for announcements for more information. Poster presentations are envisioned for those individuals, particularly young researchers, who are interested in getting involved in the General Conference but not necessarily to the extent of committing to a session. Posters will be organised along the same themes as the working group sessions, and there will be prizes awarded in these thematic categories.
Working Group Sessions
Aid Policy and Performance Working Group
Session title: EU development co-operation
The Working Group meetings at the 11th EADI General Conference in September 2005 in Bonn will focus on the topic of EU development do-operation. The meetings thus will be a part of EADI’s project ‘European Development Co-operation 2010’. The Working Group will try to invite and raise the interest of young scholars in particular.
This specific call for papers fits into the Working Group's overall objective of analysing the policy and performance of European governments and the European Union with regard to their policies vis-à-vis developing countries, with particular reference to their development co-operation and North-South policies. The Group also aims to explore the various forms and instruments involved in such relationships, again with particular reference to development co-operation. Evaluation of development assistance - and various approaches in this regard - is also seen as part of the Working Group's task.
Authors are invited to present papers on, amongst others:
- The central themes of European development co-operation: coherence, co-ordination and complementarity;
- EU development co-operation and poverty reduction;
- Specific regional EU development co-operation programmes;
- European development co-operation with specific countries;
- EU negotiations with specific developing countries or groups of developing countries;
- The organisation of EU development co-operation;
- The way EU Member States relate to European development co-operation;
- The way other (non development co-operation) policies influence the EU's relations with developing countries.
We particularly invite researchers who can present empirical case studies on the above-mentioned subjects or present forward-looking analytical papers on Europe’s role in international co-operation with developing countries.
Conveners:
Paul Hoebink
Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen
Netherlands
E-mail:
Robrecht Renard
Institute of Development Policy and Management
Belgium
E-mail:
Environment and Development Ad hoc Working Group
Session title: The environment and security of the population in developing countries
Poverty - the most significant problem in developing countries and officially accepted as such by the international institutions - is broadly considered as a privation linked to insufficient income as well as to the lack of personal security. Therefore, insecurity appears as one of the primary issues for poor populations because of their vulnerability to unpredictable events. It is the poor people who are most frequently exposed to all sorts of risks and conflicts (sometimes associated with the environment). Furthermore, the poor are less capable of effectively responding to such conflicts. The question is whether sustainable development may contribute to human, environmental and economic security for the populations in “the North” as well as in “the South”.