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The world post COVID-19 pandemic A humanist vision for a sustainable development |
In May 2020, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization (ISACCL) launched the 鈥淭he world post COVID-19 pandemic. A humanist vision for a sustainable development鈥� project, which took the form of an online platform simply titled 鈥淲hat will the world look like after the pandemic?鈥�. The goal of the project was to gather contributions from as many fields of activity as possible 鈥� education, culture, scientific research, technological progress, natural resources and biodiversity, sociology, psychology, cultural diplomacy, ethics, civic responsibility, and leadership.
Through these contributions, the authors attempted to find answers to the questions that troubled us all 鈥� among them:
- What will our respective fields of activity look like after the end of the pandemic?
- Will there be a 鈥渘ew normal鈥�? And if so, can we predict how 鈥渘ew鈥� it will really be?
- What should each of us do to adapt to the new situation after the pandemic?
The contributions received thus far have all attempted to identify the principal issues plaguing every field of activity, seeking to provide solutions and recommendations for the global crisis鈥� aftermath. However, the pandemic is still ongoing; and out attempt to compile a collection of recommendations and visions on the post-COVID-19 world might, in hindsight, have been slightly rash.
Consequently, the present conference brings together several of the original contributors to the 鈥淲hat will the world look like after the pandemic?鈥� platform, in an attempt to revisit the lessons the pandemic taught us. It is still too early to speak of lessons learned. Instead, we should focus on the problems we identified, and attempt to transform them in the most instructive of lessons.
Opening session |
Panel Discussion |
At the 8th edition of the Global Baku Forum for the
The event took place听over the ZOOM platform on Thursday December 17th, 2020, 16.00-18.00 Eastern European Time
Schedule:
16.00 Opening session 鈥� Emil Constantinescu, President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in听Levant Culture and Civilization, President of Romania 1996-2000
Invited speakers:
- Garry Jacobs, CEO and Chair of the 被窝影视福利 of Art and Science – A Planetary Moment and Momentum
- Dr. Akkan Suver, President of the Marmara Foundation Group- Tomorrow will not look like today!
- L谩szl贸 Borb茅ly, State Counsellor for the Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Romania, Coordinator of the Department for Sustainable Development of the General Secretariat of the Romanian Government – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the markers for a sustainable post-pandemic reconstruction
- Shoshana Bekerman, Director of the InterParliamentary Coalition for Global Ethics – Moving from the pandemic to a global culture of peace
- Emil Dinga, Professor in Economics and Economic Philosophy, Romanian Academy, A sketch of human society after the COVID 19 pandemic
- Fadwa El Guindi, Ph.D., retiree anthropologist, UCLA, Trustee, 被窝影视福利 of Art & Science – Rediscovering Our Humanness
- Stefan Brunnhuber,听Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer, Diakonie Hospital, Germany; WAAS Trustee – The Planetary Momentum. Asymmetric shocks, global mental preparedness for change 鈥� the paradigm shift and the economics of anti-fragility
- Ash Pachauri, Associate Fellow of the 被窝影视福利 of Arts and Science, Senior Mentor Protect Our Planet Movement 鈥� The COVID-19 Pandemic鈥檚 warning to the world.
- Winston P. Nagan, Professor at the University of Florida, United States, member of the 被窝影视福利 of Art and Science Board of Trustees – Sovereign Absolutism: A Political Pre-Existing Condition Amplifying the Danger of COVID-19.
Questions and Answers
Closing remarks