Solidarity in Pursuit of Authentic Human Development

A Student Symposium at the University of Notre Dame

Saturday, February 23, 2008 at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Resources

We would be glad if you could plan to add your voice to the many in our generation currently discussing the status of authentic human development.  If you are able to attend, we would recommend that you read the below list in order to enhance your experience at the symposium.  We realize that this list by no means exhausts the resources available on the topic, but they do act as an appropriate introduction to the major players.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Ch. 1 & 2 - Paulo Freire

White Man's Burden -  Ch 1 & 2 - William Easterly

The End of Poverty - Ch. 12, 14, and 16 - Jeffrey Sachs

Development as Freedom - Introduction and Ch. 1, 3, and 4 - Amartya Sen

Review of White Man's Burden - Amartya Sen

"Stop Trying to Save Africa"  - Uzodinma Iweala

UNDP 2007 World Report

UN Human Development Reports

Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum progressio (On the Development of Peoples, 1967)

Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis (On Social Concern, 1987)