International Development Ethics
Empathy Media lab was commissioned by The Center for Values in International Development to produce a series of dialogues with international development ethicists and practitioners to improve the effectiveness of international relief and development.
Given that the essence of moral thought is to address and ameliorate human suffering, and to expand human freedoms, how can we afford not to attend to moral clarity when it comes to international relief and development?
The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice.
We begin the series of conversations introducing ethics in development that will start to build an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development.
Other topics in this series will explore Climate Justice, Inclusive Development, Empowerment, and Democratic Values.
To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development,
Introduction to
Development Ethics
with Dr. Jay Drydyk
and Nungari Mwangi
Nungari Mwangi received her PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and currently leads the Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture, which is part of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jay Drydyk is a Professor of International Development Ethics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and he is the past President of the International Development Ethics Association and current President of the Human Development Capability Association.
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Inclusive Development
with
Dr. Ravi Verma and
Dr. Serene Khader
Dr. Serene Khader holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and is a Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her most recent book, Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic asks what values should guide transnational feminist solidarity. And she is currently writing a book entitled The Freedom Myth about why we need to stop thinking feminism's core value is freedom and start thinking it's equality.
Dr. Ravi Verma is the Asia Director of the International Center for Research on Women and leads local and regional efforts on an array of issues, including reproductive health, family planning, preventing domestic violence, child marriage, engaging men and boys to empower women, HIV/AIDS and economic development.
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On Empowerment
with
Dr. Christine Koggel
&
Saji Prelis
Saji Prelis is Co-Chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security and Director of Children & Youth Programs for Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. In 2010 he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-Civil Society-Donor working group (Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security) that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 (in 2015) on Youth, Peace and Security. As a result of the Global Coalition’s advocacy, two additional Security Council Resolutions, Resolution 2419 in June 2018 and Resolution 2535 in July 2020, were unanimously adopted.
Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her main research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of moral theory, practical ethics, feminism, social and political theory and development ethics. She is the author of Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory (1998), a book that brings together her interests in moral, political, and feminist theory. She has published 45 journal articles and chapters in edited collections, the most recent of which explore topics in development ethics (capabilities approach, agency, empowerment, work/labour), feminist theory (gender, oppression, care ethics, feminist relational theory), settler-colonialism; Indigenous issues; and their intersections. She is the former President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Board member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) and is a Lead Co- Editor for the Journal of Global Ethics.
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Democratic Values
with
Dr. David Crocker
&
Paulina Ibarra
Paulina Ibarra is the Executive Director of the Fundacion Multitudes in Chile and the first elected Chair of the Civil Society Pillar of the Community of Democracies. She has global experience in the areas of transparency, citizen participation and accountability and has worked in government, private sector and international organizations. In Washington, D.C., Paulina worked with the Open Government Partnership during the administration of President Obama and advised the World Bank on issues of education and digital activism.
Dr. David Crocker is a Development Ethics Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He specializes in socio-political philosophy, international development ethics, transitional justice, democracy and democratization, and the ethics of consumption. He is also the founder of the International Development Ethics Association.
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Climate Justice
with
Dr. Gael Giraud
and
Belynda Petrie
Dr. Gael Giraud is the founding director of Georgetown University’s Environmental Justice Program. He received his PhD in applied mathematics at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France. He also holds a PhD in theology and has been appointed as research professor at Georgetown University. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Chief economist and executive director of the French Development Agency (AFD). In 2009, he was nominated best young French economist (by Le Monde). And in 2013 he was ordained as a priest.
Belynda Petrie is an environmentalist from Cape Town, South Africa and founder and director of ONE World Sustainable Investments, which is an African-based sustainable development consulting organization focused on adaptive development within the context of changing climate and resource constraints. Belynda was a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (the IPCC), specifically on the Governance chapter. She was also a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town with a focus on Cooperative Governance for Water Security in Africa.
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About the Host of the
Center for Values in International Development Dialogues
Evan Matthew Papp
Evan Papp has over a decade of executive level experience consulting, developing, and managing strategic communications for the U.S. government, private industry, non-governmental organizations, and nonprofits.
Evan is the Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab. You can follow him on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin.
