Resumen de Shared responsibility in alternative development: an  ethical challenge

C. Zorro Sánchez, J. Kamminga

• Focusing on the links between ethics and the problem of illicit drugs, ZorroSánchez and Kamminga explore the concept of shared responsibility in the context of alternative development. They address the notion of shared responsibility from two perspectives: firstly, as an ethical response to the challenge created by the world drug problem and, secondly, as the commitment that a wide range of national and international actors in different spheres must make as part of their social responsibility, on the basis of the application of ethics-based criteria. The authors then bring together both perspectives and highlight how the exercise of that responsibility should today lead to the forging of partnerships between different actors at various levels. For alternative development to be effective, those actors should undertake specific joint commitments which go beyond the chain of production of the crops that replace illicit crops. They should also address the human development of those who have become involved in illicit crop cultivation and who depend directly or indirectly on the genuine and effective exercise of shared responsibility