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Social Justice Index

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:31 +0000

A panel discussion with stakeholders on the creation of a social justice index to support and advocate social justice within regions where populations are under a form of colonization and apartheid and injustice. Speakers’ Bios: 1. Rana Dajani: Professor of molecular cell biology, Hashemite University, Jordan, Harvard Radcliff fellow, a Fulbrighter, Eisenhower fellow, Yale and Cambridge visiting professor. Research area: refugee youth and the epigenetics of trauma across generations and world expert on genetics of Circassian and Chechan populations in Jordan. Established stem cell research ethics law in Jordan. Advocate for biological evolution and Islam, Member UN women Jordan advisory council. Established a women mentor network, and received Partnerships for enhanced engagement in research (PEER) award 2014. Organized the first gender summit for the Arab world 2017. Most influential women scientists in Islamic World, 12 among100 the most influential Arab women, Global Changemaker Award for celebrating, President of the Society for the Advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Arab World. Awarded the Jordan star of science by His Majesty King Abdullah II. Developed a community-based model “We love reading” changing mindsets through reading to create changemakers, received World Innovation Summit in Education Award 2014, King Hussein Medal of Honor 2014, UNESCO International Literacy Prize 2017, World Literacy Council Award 2018 and the Jacobs social entrepreneurship award 2018, Science, Technology and Innovation Award UN 2019, Ashoka Fellow 2019, UNHCR Nansen Refugee awardee 2020, Schwab Social entrepreneur 2022. Author of the book: Five scarves, Doing the impossible: If we can reverse cell fate why can’t we redefine success, Nova Publisher 2018. Reviewed by Nature. 2. Tariq Al-Olaimy: co-founder of 3BL Associates. For his work with 3BL, Tariq was named as one of 10 Muslim men shaping the world by Mvslim.com, and was the first per- son from the MENA region to be recognized by GreenBiz and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, as one of their “30 under 30” leaders for breaking new ground in sustainability innovation. Last year, Tariq was also honored as one of 22 Climate Trailblazers worldwide by the Global Climate Action Summit, and recognized as an Expo 2020 Global Innovator. As an educator at heart, Tariq is a certified Ubuntu Peer Peace Coach through the Archbishop DesmondTutu Foundation, a former TEDx curator, and is a co-chair of UNESCO’s Global Action Program on Education for Sustainable Development Partner Network. Tariq is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, sits on the board of AIESEC in Bahrain, and serves on the Global Advisory Council of the World Economic Forum ‘s Global Shapers Community. He has conducted sustainability workshops and trainings across six different continents. As a sustainability and youth education policy advocate within the International Climate Movement, he has worked with UN organizations such as UNESCO, UNFCCC, UNDP, and UNEP towards the Post-2015 Development Agenda (SDGs). Tariq holds a BSc. in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School London, has graduated from the Singularity University Executive Program, and is among the first 100 people in the world to complete a specialization in the field of Biomimicry. 3. Hatem Bazian: Co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. In addition, Prof. Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian between 2002-2007, also served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. In Spring 2009, Dr. Bazian founded at Berkeley the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of Othering Islam and Muslims. Prof. Bazian in Spring 2012 launched the Islamophobia Studies Journal, which is published bi-annually by Pluto Press and authored five books, hundreds of articles and a constant contributor to public debates. 4. Jason Jacobs: has an international reputation as a historian of television drama, its institutions, technology and aesthetics. He has taught film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, the University of Warwick, and Griffith University. His first book, The Intimate Screen (Oxford University Press, 2000) is a pioneering study of early television drama; his second book Body Trauma TV (British -Film Institute, 2003) explores the aesthetics of the hospital drama in relation to the contemporary cultural imagination. More recently he published Deadwood (Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute, 2012), as part of the BFI TV Classics series. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council funded project called “The Persistence of Television: How the Medium Adapts to Survive in the Digital World”…

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Universal Data Ownership

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:27 +0000

The current discourse about data, which is being mass accumulated, aggregated and processed around the world, inevitably raises the question of what is the extent to which all this powerful information transcends the core principle of human rights, thus further widening the gap of the ever-growing challenges with inequality. It is undeniable that most of the data is nowadays being managed and controlled by developed economies, within which powerful actors have been leveraging its potential as a saleable commodity in the world economy, mostly for private wealth, often to the detriment of the billions of people and communities worldwide. We are also seeing a massive data imbalance. Data is expensive and relatively hard to obtain, thus favouring big companies and organisations to invest in a large amount of data and infrastructure for greater data control. Indeed, not complying with the established rules and guidelines about data privacy is the root cause of why such colonisation of data is possible. The Catalyst 2030 community, among many other organisations and individuals working in the social economy, relies on mass information; For people and organisations working towards a SE, the SDGs, and sustainable development, collecting and analysing data enables us to generate deep insights we need to guide our initiatives and innovation toward, thus improving our overall resource efficiency. Hence, in the silos of large multilateral organisations and on the ground through NGO and Citizen sector organisations, the sector controls much of such meaningful data, which enables us to learn about the challenges and work with people, communities, and nations worldwide proactively and collaboratively addressing these. As such, we must enact upon shared principles of data ownership, privacy and control; if not, we might become marginalised by large players in the world economy and potentially lose control of all this invaluable information.

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An ecosystem of responsible innovation

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:24 +0000

Participants will learn about how a government-steered ecosystem can help alleviate and prevent poverty in Hong Kong through social innovation. Various speakers will share how they have played different roles in making this ecosystem grow over the last 10 years. The panel speakers will include representatives from the steering task force, funding partnerships, intermediaries, and grantees. They will share how the processes of legitimacy building, shared value creation, and knowledge creation have been achieved and the impact of poverty alleviation efforts.

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Community Collaboration: The Key Role of Local Government as a Catalyst

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:22 +0000

The complexity of the SDGs requires the prioritization of systems and project collaboration over silos. Government, business, social profits, and citizens working together are especially important at the community level to ensure global issues are localized. A significant challenge is that collaboration requires a neutral catalyst and a new planning approach driven by more than data and tasks. Planning for issues as complicated as the SDGs requires that in addition to being driven by data and tasks, planning must be driven by stakeholders and citizens. Local government is well positioned to serve as a catalyst for this crucial holistic approach to community collaboration by emphasizing stakeholder and citizen relationship building. This session will share a practice-informed framework, strategies, and examples of projects and systems collaboration resulting from local government serving as a catalyst for transformation.

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Alimentemos la integración

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:47 +0000

El modelo de integración de la Fundación Comparte por una vida Colombia, “Quédate en la Escuela”, tiene como propósito contribuir a la estabilización de los flujos migratorios mixtos y comunidades de acogida a través de un modelo integral con enfoque derechos, bienestar, inclusión e integración social en Colombia. Identificando desde la evidencia, los retos estructurales y las brechas que existen en las familias migrantes y de acogida en los procesos de integración en Colombia.

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Cambio Climática y Salud Pública | Puerto Rico y la Agenda 2030

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:45 +0000

Sesión educativa sobre los diversos impactos climáticos que ocurren en Puerto Rico y cómo afectan la salud pública. Se brindarán recomendaciones sobre cómo mitigar, prevenir y responder al cambio climático en el contexto caribeño. Se vislumbra que el profesor de Salud Ambiental, Pablo Méndez Lázaro, de la Escuela Graduada de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas presentará una conferencia sobre los temas antes expuestos. PD. Esta sesión será parte de las sesiones que se darán en la Escuela Graduada de Salud Pública de la UPR.

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Retos y Oportunidades Comunitarias para un Desarrollo Sostenible

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:45 +0000

En esta sesión fomentaremos una mesa redonda para exponer los resultados encontrados en los foros comunitarios realizados por “La Alianza Hispana para la Investigación Clínica y Traslacional en Puerto Rico”. En la actividad se presentarán estrategias en políticas públicas, empoderamiento comunitario y educación. Se realizará la actividad virtualmente y se invitarán a integrantes del Consejo Asesor Comunitario de La Alianza. Se buscará catalizar colaboraciones entre distintas organizaciones que ya están trabajando en los ODS y la Agenda 2030. Esta actividad visibilizará los resultados de estudios comunitarios que se han hecho en el contexto de Puerto Rico y proveerá recomendaciones de cursos de acción sostenibles.

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International Academy of Trial Lawyers Youth Restorative Justice Initiative

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:44 +0000

The IATL Academy has created a comprehensive model for Youth Restorative Justice, including best practices and policies for schools, police, county and courts, and promotes sharing of best practices with its Fellows to create and enable change in their own communities. The initiative includes evaluation and reporting on restorative practices to establish their effectiveness and cost efficiency, the creation of educational materials and videos, and training for all participants. Three restorative justice initiatives, which have benefitted greatly from the active support of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, will be profiled in this workshop: Toronto-based Peacebuilders Canada’s Restorative Youth Circles and Restorative Schools Programs, the restorative programs of the Minnesota Legal Rights Center, and the multiple awards winner film ‘Once and Future Peace’.

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How we can make policy-makers DO it: Making mass nonviolent resistance feasible

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:36 +0000

“I agree with you. Now go and make me do it.”—Franklin Roosevelt (1943) to Civil Rights Leader, A.Philip Randolph. Winning elections and lawsuits are essential to achieving major social change. But social change history clearly proves that they are entirely insufficient without being coupled with a robust and growing nonviolent resistance movement, that essential element that is tragically still in its infancy today. Sustainability, mitigation and adaptation strategies are nice ideas for the long run. But we don’t have that long run anymore. So instead of creating tech for long-run solutions, isn’t it about time we create tech that can enable nonviolent resistance campaigns to recruit the massive numbers they need to make policy makers “do it,” and do it NOW!? Movement theory and social change history make it clear that mass nonviolent resistance is now our LAST and best hope to save what is still savable. And tech that can solve the “numbers” challenge, that can catalyze moral courage at scale, would arguably be one of the highest best uses of tech ever. This session will look at one or two such tools, but first brainstorm your own suggestions, plus explain how to get a grant if your campaign is eager to beta test one of these tools and is one of the first two qualified campaigns to apply.

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Restorative Justice and Healing for People Affected by Elder Abuse

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:32 +0000

With live introductions and Q & A opportunities, this session will showcase the Webinar presented by the California Elder Justice Coalition about the Waterloo Restorative Justice Elder Abuse Project conceived and delivered by Arlene Groh, Executive Director. Developed over two decades ago, the Project remains one of the few programs of its kind globally serving older adults who have suffered abuse by care-givers, relatives and others. This session will show a video depicting how the Waterloo program used a Peacebuilding Circle to reduce the harm to family relationships following a case of financial elder abuse. The video’s producer and circle co-facilitators will discuss the benefits and challenges of applying restorative justice to elder abuse, potential applications and settings in which it can be used, and steps for implementing programs.

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