with Thomas Pogge (Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University), Kristina Dietz (Researcher at the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin) and Isabel Feichtner (Ass. Professor for Law and Economics, J.W.Goethe Univ., Frankfurt/M.)

Natural resources have become a key issue in international politics. Competition for access to and control of natural resources has intensified, and so have conflicts over the distribution of benefits as well as over negative environmental and social impacts of exploration and production. In this context, the question arises of how to conceptualize “resource fairness”, i.e. how access to, distribution and use of natural resources can be organized in a way that takes into account the legitimate interests of all actors and institutions involved. In this context, far-reaching questions emerge with regard to the current modes of production and living. In the opening event of the 1st Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics, different conceptual approaches to resource fairness will be introduced and confronted with each other.

› Programme

› Gallery 4.12./5.12.2014

› Videos:

• “The Role of Fairness in International Resource Politics" - Thomas Pogge
• “The Role of Fairness in International Resource Politics" - Comment by Kristina Dietz
• “The Role of Fairness in International Resource Politics" - Comment by Isabel Feichtner

Statements:

• Conceptualizations of resource fairness in international law
  Statement by Isabel Feichtner , Assistant Professor for Law and Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
• Resource politics in the context of democratic transition in Myanmar
  Statement by Khin Zaw Win, Director of the Tampadipa Institute and political analyst, Myanmar
• Resource fairness from the point of view of global justice
  Statement by Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University

Nachlesen:

• Globale Ressourcen-Fairness zwischen Rohstoffhunger und Konflikten (Gastbeitrag von Ulrich Brand, Christina Plank und Melanie Pichler)
• Erste österreichische Konferenz zu internationaler Ressourcenpolitik ein großer Erfolg (AGEF - Arbeitsgruppe Entwicklungs- und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung)
• Ressourcengerechtigkeit - Leitbild und globale Herausforderung (Grüne Bildungswerkstatt Wien)
• Fairness - oder Gerechtigkeit? Thomas Pogge im Gespräch (Ö1, Sa 27.12.2014, Help - das Konsumentenmagazin)

More Information on the 1st Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics

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The conference was organized by the Austrian Foundation for Development Research, the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna  and the Institute of Geography at the University of Innsbruck