The interview addresses the problem of clean trade with natural resources. It discusses available concepts of conflict commodities and points to available policies trying to regulate trade with minerals from conflict zones. It presents how political theorists concerned with global justice discuss natural resources and conflicts and what conceptions of clean trade there are and what ideas about global justice underlie them. The question of property to valuable goods like minerals, oil, gas etc. is raised. Also, the question about what kinds of responsibilites there are in matters of trade with conflict commodities.
PD Dr. Petra Gümplová (Twitter @petraguemplova) holds a PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research in New York. In 2021 she obtained her Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She currently leads the research project JRT01 “The transformation of global commons and the future of planetary ecosystems” within the scope of the Collaborative Research project “SFB Structural Change of Property” at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Her scholarly expertise lies in the fields of international political theory, global justice, international law, and natural resource governance.
Dr. Eduardo Relly, environmental historian, is currently Post-Doc Researcher (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) at FSU Jena in the JRT03 „Eigentum an genetischen Ressourcen: Zur Aneignung traditionellen Wissens in der Bioökonomie“. Eduardo Relly completed his PhD Studies in History at the Freie Universität Berlin and has been active mostly in Brazilian and German academia. His expertise lies on forest and agrarian history, European historical migration to overseas, climate history, commons and privatization of land, ethnohistory of South America, bioprospection and governance of plant genetic resources.
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