9th Austrian Development Conference
International development is undergoing radical change: development policy and cooperation are increasingly being called into question – and not only by the United States. Does it still have a future?
Currently, international development is experiencing massive changes: Development politics and development cooperation are fundamentally questioned, not only by the US-government. Where is development politics headed today? Will and should it continue to exist? What kind of development are we fighting for?
We will be discussing these and further landmark questions, based on the 16th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) “Peace, justice and stable institutions”, at this year’s Development Conference. As the penultimate goal, the 16th SDG brings together more dimensions than any other of the 17 SDGs formulated by the United Nations.
On first sight these dimensions might not fit together well, however if you look closely, they build the foundation of the entire SDG architecture: None of the SGDs can be achieved without inclusive, effective, and accountable institutions!
Many goals are obsolete or undermined without peace, while their fulfilment would bring about great progress for justice. In our current world political situation, three dimensions seem central and have therefore been chosen as a focus for this year’s Development Conference:
- peace and conflict management
- geopolitical interests and authoritarian tendencies
- justice and environmental justice
Opening dialogue with
- Patrick Bond (South Africa)
- Jens Martens (Bonn)
- Catriona Murdoch (Den Haag)
- Luckystar Miyandazi (African Union)
With contributions from
- Stephan Klingebiel (German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Bonn)
- Ana María Suarez Franco (FIAN, Genf)
- Dora Maria Téllez (former guerillafighter and minister, Nicaragua, today Spain)
- Chubhra Dwivedy (Socio Economic & Education Development Society, Jharkhand, India)
- Radwa Khaled-Ibrahim (medico international, Frankfurt/M.)
- Chandan Kumar (Working Peoples‘ Charter Network, India)
- Grettel Navas (Santiago de Chile)
Workshops on key issues of peace & justice
- Human rights and environmental standards in a new era of globalization
- Nexus women – peace – climate justice
- Illicit Financial Flows: Drivers of Insecurity and Inequality
- Thinking justice – creating peace: Scenarios for a future worth living
- Tyrol post/colonial. The global in the regional
Programme
- to exchange: student pre-conference
- to network: pre-meeting on development research
- to dive deeper: 13 further interactive workshops
- to watch: „Step by step“ – travelling exhibition on spaces for democracy
- to play along: forum theater performance: “Das Kuchenstück” – theater for distributive justice
- to enable: simultaneous interpreting English-German and free childcare
- to sleep: free accommodation for students
