The Isaac Roet Prize is an international essay contest about the promotion of world peace through economic interaction. Students from all economic faculties at universities around the globe are invited to participate and to write an essay on the theme of the 2008 edition of the essay competition:

Resource access and world peace; policies to promote global stability in view of growing scarcity of non renewable natural resources. 

Additional information on the topic can be downloaded here. A prize of Euro 5,000 will be offered for the best essay on this subject. The competition will be open for participation until December 31, 2008. Details on how to join the competition can be found on this site.

The organisation of the 2008 Isaac Roet Prize has been delegated to the Economists for Peace and Security (EPS). EPS is an international organisation for intellectual exchange among economists concerned with issues related to peace, conflict resolution and international security. The Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universiteit van Amsterdam facilitates the organisation of the prize.

We kindly ask you to announce this competition at your university through our poster and the banner. The announcing poster can be downloaded here, the banner can be downloaded here.

Joel van der Beek
On behalf of Economists for Peace and Security and the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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