Panel Session 7
Session title:
Re-thinking International Development: Towards Co-Creation of Knowledge
and Future for Global Commons
This session explores the future of international development. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly shaped and changed the global political, socio-economic and cultural landscape in the way we have not witnessed in the past century. We have seen the rise of violent conflicts, political polarization, social divisions, and economic stagnation in every corner of the world. The shortage of vaccination and healthcare access in many places, especially in the global south, reflects a development gap and the deepening global inequality. Through knowledge exchange between scholars from the global north and south, this panel hopes to rethink the international development in years to come in terms of landscape, emerging issues, approaches, and eventually meaning.
The session will aim to address the following key questions:
We will explore the following set of questions: 1) How will the international development landscape be in post-COVID 19 pandemic era?; 2) What would be the emerging issues in international development?; 3) What are new approaches to international development? ; and eventually 4) What does it mean to talk about “international development” in the post-COVID 19 contexts?
Speakers
Asst. Prof. Dr. Bhanubhatra Jittang
Director, MAIDS/GRIPS, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Prof. Dr. Jin Sato
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo; President, Japan Society for International Development
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mandy Sadan
Director of the Graduate Taught Programmes in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
