Promoting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Women's Leadership, Religion, and Scholarship

12/03/2019 1h 49min
Promoting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Women's Leadership, Religion, and Scholarship

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Episode Synopsis

Dr. Alaa Murabit discusses the promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at Harvard Divinity School, highlighting the intersection between women's leadership, religion, and sustainable development. She presents unique examples of women's religious leadership to advance human rights, societal development, and peacebuilding and explores the importance of leveraging religious scholarship.

Speaker:
Dr. Alaa Murabit, UN High-Level Commissioner and SDG Global Advocate

Moderator and Discussant:
Professor Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding for 2018-19 at Harvard Divinity School

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Full transcript here: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/03/14/video-promoting-the-un-sustainable-development-goals

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