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Overview

Social development is an essential key for ensuring good governance, while good governance sets the parameters and conditions for social development. This international symposium examines the symbiotic relationship between social development and good governance. Major issues and global challenges to social development are covered, including: effectiveness of Millennium Development Goals; policy limits; institutional autonomy; poverty and hunger; global climate change; continuous marginalization and social exclusion; social justice and human rights issues; mobilization of governmental, non-governmental, and civil society institutions that address the widening gap between rich and poor; and roles of global governance agencies that harness peace, stability, and prosperity in a world of conflict.

Aims and Objectives

• To identify the issues, challenges, and solutions to social development and good governance
• To discuss and analyze the roles and responsibilities of local, regional, and global governance agencies promoting/achieving social development

Sub-Themes

• International Policy Limits
• Social exclusion, marginalization, and deprivation
• Economic policy related to growth and sustainability
• Public health as a priority for many countries
• Educational policy issues with regard to both formal and informal literacy
• Non-compliance of environmental policies by the nations
• Hazy participation and nebulous ownership
• Media matters for social development
• Specific Issues and Populations in Social Development
• Global migration
• Human trafficking
• HIV/AIDS
• Rural and urban development
• Global climate change
• Hunger and poverty
• Ethnic and racial issues
• Sports and culture
• Special Populations in Social Development
• Women's participation in social development
• Rights of child, child labor, and street children
• Disabled individuals
• Elderly people
• Indigenous populations
• Homeless people
• Immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons
• International Response to Issues and Challenges
• Disaster relief and management
• Human rights and social justice
• Truth commission and reconciliation
• Affirmative actions and reparations
• Micro-credit as social emancipation
• International partnership and coalition building
• Promoting social work education globally
• Role of UN, Governmental, Non-Governmental, and Civil Society Organizations
• UN organizations
• Governmental response to social development
• Non-governmental response to social development
• Civil society response to social development
• World social and economic forums
• Corporate social responsibility
• Reviewing the Millennium Development Goals
• South Asia
• South East Asia
• South West Asia
• Latin America and Caribbean
• Africa
• South, Central, and Eastern Europe