GLOBUS Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice

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Status
Completed
Duration
01.06.2016–31.05.2020

Since its inception, the European Union has proclaimed an ambition to promote justice at the global level. But what precisely is the EU’s contribution to global justice? And what could a just foreign policy look like?

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About the project

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GLOBUS  is a research project that critically examines the European Union’s contribution to global justice.

Challenges to global justice are multifaceted and what is just is contested. Combining normative and empirical research GLOBUS explores underlying political and structural obstacles to justice. Analyses of the EU’s positions and policies are combined with in-depth studies of non-European perspectives on the practices of the EU. Particular attention is paid to the fields of migration, trade and development, cooperation and conflict, as well as climate change.

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GDPR and processing of personal data

GLOBUS will use official documents and media debates to analyse justice conceptions within the fields migration, climate change, cooperation and conflict and trade and development. We will collect and analyse news articles and TV/radio broadcasts as well as official documents already publicly available. In the course of our analysis, we will collect and temporarily store information on individuals whose names and statements appear in the documents that we analyse.

GDPR rights apply for all persons whose data we will be processing throughout the course of the project (see articles 15-21 of the GDPR). This entails that all such persons have the right to:

  •  Ask for access to their personal data being processed.
  • Request that their personal data be deleted.
  • Request that incorrect personal data is corrected/rectified.
  • To receive a copy of their personal data (data portability).

In select cases, we publish analysis that may directly or indirectly identify public persons or private individuals and their opinions. Please contact research advisere Geir Kværk (g.o.kvark@arena.uio.no)  if you:

  • Identify yourself in our work as one of these individuals and have any concerns regarding your GDPR rights.
  • Identify yourself as having contributed your opinions in any of the texts that will appear listed here and have any concerns about the way we have processed and stored your personal data.

Participants

  • Picture of Helene Sjursen
    Helene Sjursen University of Oslo Project coordinator
  • Picture of Erik Oddvar Eriksen
    Erik Oddvar Eriksen University of Oslo
  • Picture of Cathrine Holst
    Cathrine Holst University of Oslo
  • Picture of Elin Lerum Boasson
    Elin Lerum Boasson University of Oslo
  • Picture of John Erik Fossum
    John Erik Fossum University of Oslo
  • Picture of Christopher Lord
    Christopher Lord University of Oslo
  • Picture of Trym Nohr Fjørtoft
    Trym Nohr Fjørtoft University of Oslo
  • Andreas Eriksen University of Oslo
  • Ragnhild Grønning University of Oslo
  • Geir Kværk University of Oslo
  • Agustín José Menéndez Universidad León and University of Oslo
  • Kjartan Koch Mikalsen Nord University and University of Oslo
  • Espen Daniel Hagen Olsen University of Oslo
  • Johanne Døhlie Saltnes University of Oslo
  • Solveig Aamodt CICERO

Funding

Funded by the European Union

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Research and Innovation Action financed by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme. Societal Challenges 6: Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

Collaborators

Project members

University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies

University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science

  • Head of team: Thomaz Diez
  • Bettina Ahrens
  • Lea Augenstein
  • Nicolas Gäckle
  • Franz von Lucke

University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe)

  • Head of team: Ben Tonra
  • Samuel Brazys
  • Marie Brett
  • Graham Finlay
  • Melanie Hoewer
  • Orla Ní Cheallacháin
  • Sadhbh O Neill
  • Jelena Radakovic
  • Heidi Riley
  • Nikola Tomic
  • Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
  • Patrick Paul Walsh
  • Alexa Zellentin

University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences

  • Head of team: Sonia Lucarelli
  • Filippo Andreatta
  • Cinzia Bevitori
  • Stefano Bianchini
  • Marco Borraccetti
  • Michela Ceccorulli
  • Enrico Fassi
  • Antonio Fiori
  • Giorgio Grappi
  • Sandro Mezzadra
  • Arrigo Pallotti
  • Antonio Zotti

University of the Witwatersrand, Wits School of Governance

  • Head of team: Pundy Pillay
  • William Gumede
  • Ivor Sarakinsky
  • Anthoni van Nieuwkerk

State University of Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Social and Political Studies

  • Head of team: Leticia Pinheiro
  • Carlos R. S. Milani
  • Maria Regina Soares de Lima

O. P. Jindal Global University, Jindal School of International Affairs

  • Head of team: Rohee Dasgupta
  • Sreeram Chaulia
  • Nicolas de Zamaroczy
  • Pallavi Kishore
  • Annika Styczynski
  • Kalyani Unkule

Renmin University of China, Centre for European Studies

  • Head of team: Xinning Song
  • Weiping Huang
  • Yiwei Wang

GLOBUS Scientific Advisory Board

  • Cecilia Albin, Uppsala University
  • James Bohman, St. Louis University
  • Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Michael Davis, National Endowment for Democracy
  • Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research, Collège d’études mondiales Paris, and University of Oslo
  • Raj Kumar, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Jindal Global Law School
  • Cristina Lafont, Northwestern University
  • Patricia Mindus, Uppsala University
  • Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University
  • Marc F. Plattner, International Forum for Democratic Studies, and National Endowment for Democracy
  • Teija Tiilikainen, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs

GLOBUS Policy Advisory Board

  • Sir Robert Cooper
  • Alfredo Conte
  • Linda McAvan
  • Lukas Meyer
  • Madeleine Selina Rees
  • Erik Solheim
  • Bodil Valero
  • Minky Worden
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