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Workshops June 2022
June 1, 2022 — June 22, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM — 1:30 PM
| Location: | Online, via Zoom. |
| Cost: | Free |
This series of introductory workshops is designed for international development professionals (at all career stages) who have questions about ethics and want to learn the language of ethics to analyze ethical issues professionally. Registration is limited to 12 participants.
When: The four 90-minute workshops will be held via Zoom from 12 Noon to 1:30pm (Eastern Time) on June 1, 8, 15, 22. Each workshop builds on the previous workshop so we ask participants to commit to the full set of 4 workshops.
What to expect: The Development Ethics Forum is designed to enable development practitioners to connect their experiences of grappling with ethical questions in their work to tools and concepts for ethical reasoning created by other development practitioners as well as philosophers who work in the field of development ethics. The Forum will provide practitioners with the resources to articulate and discuss ethical concerns systematically and professionally. The Forum consists of four workshop-style sessions. Preparation for Sessions 1-3 is minimal. For Session 4, participants will be asked to read a chapter from The Development Ethics Handbook (to be provided) that relates to their professional interests.
Session 1 (June 1): Participants will share their practical questions about ethics in international development. Facilitators will then connect participants’ questions to tools and concepts of development ethics that can help to resolve them.
Session 2 (June 8): Same as session 1 with contributions from remaining participants.
Session 3 (June 15): Deep dive into development ethics based on questions from Sessions 1 & 2.
Session 4 (June 22): Participants will be divided into groups based on their questions and concerns about development ethics. Each group will read and discuss a chapter from The Development Ethics Handbook and then report on key insights.
Facilitators: Jay Drydyk (Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University), John Cameron (Professor of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University), Gloria Sánchez-Cuevas and Karishma Bristy (PhD students in Ethics & Public Affairs, Carleton University)
Registration: Click here to register. The deadline for registration is May 20.
For more information, please contact: devethicsforum@gmail.com.