Social Justice Ireland’s annual Social Policy Conference will address the issue of Sharing responsibility in Shaping the Future. This one-day conference will be held in Duiblin on September 14, 2011 and will be addressed by a distinguished list of international and national speakers.
Questions concerning responsibility have been widely debated in recent times. Among these are questions on why ordinary people who had no part in the decisions made by banks and other institutions that caused the current series of crises, now have to take responsibility for the consequences of dangerous and sometimes illegal activities of those who played a central role?
The issue of responsibility goes even further. Following from recent crises people’s rights are at risk as are social protection, the welfare state and democracy itself. This situation is exacerbated by many other challenges facing the world today ranging from pandemics to environmental devastation, from nuclear annihilation to mass migration of displaced people.
- Why should responsibility be shared?
- How can responsibility be shared in a real and meaningful manner at local, national and international levels?
- How can people ensure their voice is really heard or that future generations are protected?
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Thank you to BIEN for providing this information on your website. A paper to be presented at this conference by Brigid Reynolds and myself will address the question ‘Why and how responsibility for shaping the future should be shared’. In this paper we will argue that the introduction of a Basic Income system is one of the essential initiatives needed for a viable, sustainable future to develop.
The full text of the book containing the papers underpinning the presentations at this conference on ‘Sharing Responsibility in Shaping the Future’ may be accessed free of charge at: http://www.socialjustice.ie/content/sharing-responsibility-shaping-future-full-text
Each individual paper may also be downloaded separately.
Basic Income is named in a number of these papers as being an essential component of a viable, sustainable future.
The full list of chapers in this book is:
1. The Council of Europe’s proposed new Charter on Shared Social Responsibilities Addressed at conference by Gilda Farrell from the Council of Europe.
2. Shared Social Responsibility as a Key Concept in Managing the Current Interregnum by Mark Davis
3. Sharing Social Responsibility in Shaping the Future: A Trade Union Perspective by David Begg General Secretary of Ireland’s Trade Union Congress.
4. Sharing Responsibility in Building the Future: A Business Perspective by Danny McCoy, Director General of Ireland’s main employers and business organisation.
5. Intergenerational Solidarity and its Role in Shaping the Future by Mary Cunningham, CEO of the National Youth Council of Ireland
6. Sharing Responsibility in Shaping the Future: An Environmental Perspective – Participatory Democracy – The Story of a Trojan Horse by Michael Ewing, Coordinator of the Irish Environmental Network.
7. Sharing Responsibility to Maximize Positive Outcomes: Co-Production, Community Participation and Public Services by Ivan Cooper, Advocacy and Policy Director with The Wheel.
8. Sharing Responsibility for Shaping the Future – Why and How? by Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds, Directors of Social Justice Ireland
Printed copies may also be purchased from Social Justice Ireland.