Conference Program
1st Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics
“Towards International Resource Fairness - Theories, Conflicts and Policies”
4 – 6 December 2014, Centre for International Development, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna
December 4, 2014
Public Opening Event:
"The Role of Fairness in International Resource Politics"
Registration: office@oefse.at
| 17:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| Members of Organizing Committee | ||
| 17:15 | Keynote Lecture: “Resource fairness from the point of view of global justice” | |
| Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University | ||
| 18:00 | Comments | |
| “The role of normative concepts in struggles over natural resources” | ||
| Kristina Dietz, Researcher at the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin | ||
| “Conceptualizations of resource fairness in international law” | ||
| Isabel Feichtner, Ass. Professor for Law and Economics, J.W.Goethe Univ., Frankfurt/M | ||
| 18:30 | Public Discussion | |
| Facilitator: Werner Raza, ÖFSE – Austrian Foundation for Development Research | ||
| 19:30 | Wine Reception |
December 5, 2014
| 08:30 | Conference Registration | |
| 09:00 | Conference Opening | |
| Karin Küblböck & Werner Raza, ÖFSE | ||
| 09:30 | Plenary Session I: | |
| Resource Extraction as a Development Model? | ||
| Current Pathways and Conflicts | ||
| Khin Zaw Win | ||
| Maristella Svampa (via Skype) | ||
| Martin Coy | ||
| Facilitator: Melanie Pichler | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Parallel Workshops | |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | Parallel Workshops | |
| 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 | Plenary Session II: | |
| National and international Governance of Natural Resources | ||
| Isabel Feichtner | ||
| Chris Armstrong | ||
| Karin Küblböck | ||
| Facilitator: Christina Plank | ||
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
December 6, 2014
| 09:00 | Parallel Workshops | |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Parallel Workshops | |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | Closing Session: | |
| Future Research Needs and Transdisciplinary Knowledge Integration | ||
| 14:40 | Directions for future research - based on workshop outcomes | |
| Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna | ||
| 15:10 | Transdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer - how does and can it work? | |
| Christoph Görg, University of Kassel | ||
| 15:30 | Working Groups on identified research needs and | |
| 16:30 | Summary and Outlook | |
| Facilitators: Karin Küblböck & Ulrich Brand | ||
| 17:00 | End of Conference |
