Angélica Godinho da Costa: THE FOUR ICAF DIMENSIONS: A HABERMASIAN FOUNDATION

Angélica Godinho da Costa

 THE FOUR ICAF DIMENSIONS: A HABERMASIAN FOUNDATION

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The meeting will take place exclusively online on October 05, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Abstract

The Institutional Cosmopolitan Accountability Framework (ICAF) develops from the tension between universal normative commitments and the situated realities through which institutions enact, justify, and revise those commitments. Drawing on Habermas’s discourse theory, the framework understands legitimacy not as a consequence of formal existence or institutional effectiveness alone, but as dependent upon procedures through which collectively binding norms can be justified to those affected by them. In complex and pluralistic societies, communicative rationality, inclusion, and legitimate procedures become essential to the institutionalization of universal principles. ICAF translates these theoretical requirements into four interconnected dimensions: Universality, Inclusiveness, Integrity, and Resilience. Universality concerns the normative scope and procedural validity of institutional principles; Inclusiveness concerns the participation…