Making Doughnut-Economics work for Peace
| Dates: | 11 June 2024 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Humanities |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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Hosted by Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester.
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
The purpose of the workshop is to provide a space for a focused discussion on how to re-think post-conflict reconstruction and economic peacebuilding approaches. We want to connect this to ongoing debates about 'doughnut economics', a term coined by British economist Kate Raworth in her 2017 book.
Doughnut economics promotes a shift away from the traditional growth-centric economic model, which often leads to environmental degradation and increasing inequality. Instead, it advocates for a regenerative and distributive economy (including regenerative practices, considering environmental impact, distributed ownership and governance and a more equitable distribution of resources, wealth, and decision-making power) and promoting grassroots initiatives and community-led development. Doughnut economics, despite its slightly silly name, has gained attention as a new framework for rethinking economic policy and development, with the goal of creating more sustainable and inclusive economies that work within the planetary boundaries. It offers an alternative to traditional GDP-driven growth models.
As such, this framework connects well to questions of post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding and could offer new avenues to think about post-war reconstruction and an opportunity to work across disciplines. This would mean a shift away from narrow political economy debates that critique liberal peacebuilding and liberalism. The focus is on micro dynamics and how they interact with macro dynamics of intervention, political ecology and political economy.
If you are interested in participating, please email Dr Kristina Tschunkert by 18th May with a 100 word summery how your works fits the workshop theme.
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