This year’s celebration centered around the direction of development studies aiming to contribute directly to just transitions.
This year’s ISS Dies Natalis centered around the direction of development studies aiming to contribute directly to just transitions. This relates to fundamental transitions that societies are navigating globally:
- Resources (and food security): from scarcity-oriented extractivist economies to green and sustainable ones.
- Connectedness: from ethnocentric nationalist policies to a global vision on migration, disasters and humanitarian aid.
- Knowledge: from mono-cultural disciplinary thinking to a truly global interconnected reflexivity, including empowerment of underprivileged communities.
Can we imagine forms of global solidarity with partners in the Global South and North that respond to pressing economic, ecological and social challenges and ongoing genocidal violence?
How can our research and teaching contributes to the enhancement of well-being, social and ecological justice and more equitable societies?
How can ISS make the most impact in these transitions?
Did you miss the Dies Natalis? You can now watch the recording
Our panelists
- Professor Shuaib Lwasa - Professor of Urban Resilience and Global Development, ISS
- Dr Kaira Canete - Senior researcher, The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre, ISS
- Jonathon Moniz - PhD researcher, ISS
- Watfa Najdi - PhD researcher, ISS
The event was moderated by Professor Peter Knorringa