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Overcoming Inequalities in Times of Crises: Towards a New Eco-Social Contract
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Join Paul Ladd, Director of the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in this talk about the forthcoming UNRISD Flagship report "Overcoming Inequalities in Times of Crises: Towards a New Eco-Social Contract."
Seven years into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the report comes out at a moment when the context for achieving it has never been more daunting:
Seven years into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the report comes out at a moment when the context for achieving it has never been more daunting:
- The unprecedented concentration of wealth and income and the elite capture of political processes and institutions;
- The rise of austerity, nationalism, and right-wing extremism as well as backlash against egalitarian and human rights discourses and movements;
- Evolving technology creating new divides both within and between countries; and
- The climate crisis and biodiversity loss threatening our very existence.
The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the corrosive effects of the current system and the inequality it has wrought, revealing its lack of resilience to shocks. The result is a world in a state of fracture, and at its heart is inequality. Inequality has been both a root cause and an amplifier of multiple crises—economic, social, political, cultural, and ecological.
The speaker will break down inequality into three interlinked and reinforcing forms - economic, social and political - and analyze their causes, dynamics and impacts. Based on the UNRISD’s research, the age of neoliberal globalization, and related policy choices, are at the root of the present challenges, having prepared the way for the current model of unsustainable hyper-globalization which creates an inescapable gravity towards inequality and crises.
The talk will be moderated by Professor Daniel Naujoks, director a.i., IO/UNS specialization at SIPA.
The speaker will join virtually - SIPA students can opt to join the in-person joint viewing or to join virtually. Please see the separate registration options.
The speaker will break down inequality into three interlinked and reinforcing forms - economic, social and political - and analyze their causes, dynamics and impacts. Based on the UNRISD’s research, the age of neoliberal globalization, and related policy choices, are at the root of the present challenges, having prepared the way for the current model of unsustainable hyper-globalization which creates an inescapable gravity towards inequality and crises.
The talk will be moderated by Professor Daniel Naujoks, director a.i., IO/UNS specialization at SIPA.
The speaker will join virtually - SIPA students can opt to join the in-person joint viewing or to join virtually. Please see the separate registration options.
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Co-hosted with: United Nations Association, MPA in Development Practice, Economic and Political Development Concentration
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