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Ethics of Resource Extraction Cluster Online Dialogue Series
CBERN’s Ethics of Resource Extraction Cluster will launch a series of five online dialogues in late spring 2012. The first theme will be human rights in relation to the implementation of CSR policies in the Canadian extractives industry.
The series grew out of the final session of CBERN’s 2010 Annual Conference in Montreal on “Human Rights, Resource Extraction and First Nation Economic Development”. Invited participants Jim Cooney and Jean Vavrek aimed to identify knowledge gaps in industry implementation of CSR practices and standards, with the goal that these might create a platform for setting a research agenda to address these gaps.
During 2011, insight from this preliminary knowledge gaps assessment was synthesized and augmented by a CBERN PhD Research Assistant Claire Woodside, a PhD Candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa. A strategy to expand discussion through online dialogue was developed drawing on existing models for online multi-stakeholder engagement. A second PhD Research Assistant Olaf Ellefson will support the online dialogue initiative. Over the course of the series, five themed discussions will be open for four weeks each through the Ethics of Resource Extraction Cluster and will run over the coming year leading up to the World Mining Congress 2013
For more information or to become involved contact Hilary Martin at hmartin@cbern.ca to get access to the project page.