21 - 24 September 2005, Bonn, Germany
Timeline:
  • Abstract submission:
    31 March 2005 (closed)
  • Paper submission:
    30 June 2005
    • (closed)
  • Poster submission:
    30 June 2005
    • (closed)
  • General Conference:
    21 - 24 September 2005
Conference host:
  • DIE
  • EADI
Media partner:
  • Deutsche Welle
  • Inter Press Service

Parallel Sessions IV

A) Globalisation and Social Insecurity: International Organisations, Civil Society and Global Governance Clusters



Chair:
Gilberto Calcagnotto, Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde, Hamburg, Germany

Speakers:

Jeremy Gould, Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland
Michael Windfuhr, FIAN, International, Heidelberg, Germany
Sonia Bartsch, Lars Kohlmorgen, Wolfgang Hein, German Overseas Institute (DÜI), Hamburg, Germany


Abstract:

Social insecurity has always characterized large parts of the world's population. Various international Human Rights documents and many organizations of the UN system relate to social insecurity without, however, having attained an important impact on reducing insecurity. Globalization has been accompanied by an increase of social inequity, but also by an increasing integration of global society in forms of flows of transport, information and mutual impact. At the same time most UN organizations in the field of social development were in a severe crisis. New institutions propelled by global civil society and corporate actors have changed the field of global social politics, the global governance discourse has rapidly expanded.

In the cluster of Global Health Governance this has led to a proliferation of health related organizations with an increasing economic and political importance of organizations outside the UN system. In other fields of global social governance, we can observe similar though not as spectacular developments (e.g. Food security/ right to food; access to social services like education, clean water, electricity).

The panel will discuss the following questions:

  1. What is the role of state and non-state actors in global social governance?
  2. Can we interpret the rise of new actors in global social governance as an indicator for a growing global social commitment?

  3. Can social insecurities (e.g. health problems) be better addressed by emerging global social governance clusters than by traditional international organizations?

  4. Can we expect a historical process from weak international organizations via a phase of network-like global governance towards the developments of elements of global statehood?



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