The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) would hold its Ninth Sustainable Development Conference (SDC), which would be attended by a number of national and international scholars, academicians, researchers and activists both from civil society and the government.
The conference titled 'Missing Links in Sustainable Development: South Asian Perspective', will cover sustainable development's five major sub-themes: globalisation, gender, peace and people's rights, education and environment.
An anthology of last year's SDC titled 'At the Crossroads: South Asian Research, Policy and Development in a Globalised World', containing 23 chapters jointly published by SDPI and Sama Editorial and Publishing Services, will also be launched and presented at the Conference.
The conference will be addressed by prominent speakers including Dr Walden Bello, Director of Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, a project of Chulalongkorn University's Social Research Institute, and Professor of Public Administration and Sociology at the University of the Philippines; Urvashi Butalia, a publisher and a writer, co-founder of India's first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, and Director Zubaan; Dipak Gyawali, Research Director, Nepal Water Conservation Foundation; Institute for Social; Environmental Transition, Nepal and I A Rehman, Director Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.