ICSDAP’s 7th biennial international conference on “Social Unrest, Peace and Development” is going to be held at Islamic University, Kushtia. International Consortium for Social Development, Asia-Pacific Branch (ICSDAP) and the Department of Social Welfare, Islamic University, Kushtia are jointly organizing this conference at IU on 14 and 15 September, 2019. ICSDAP’s conference is going to be arranged for the first time in Bangladesh. Over a hundred social development experts, scholars and researchers from eight countries of Asia, Europe and Australia will participate in that two-day conference. The university authority has taken a massive preparation to make the conference a grand success. The scholars or researchers will present papers on the following topics:
a. Civil war, refugee and social unrest
b. Economic discrimination and its impact on peace and development
c. Population growth and social unrest
d. Globalization and immigration and how they appear as a challenge to ensure peace and development
e. Gender disparity, violence, peace and development
f. Disaster management and an ambience of peace and development
g. Peace, education, social enterprise and sustainable development
h. Social unrest, peace and political process (or crisis)
i. NGO for mitigating conflict and establishing peace and development
j. Role of the young generation to remove social unrest and to establish peace in local and national levels
k. Racial, religious and social unrests and how to establish peace and development.
Honourable Patrons of the conference:
1. Professor Dr. Rashid Askari, Vice Chancellor, Islamic University, Kushtia (Chief Patron of the Conference)
2. Professor Dr. M Shahinoor Rahman, Chairman, Department of Social Welfare and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Islamic University, Kushtia (Patron of the Conference)
3. Professor Dr. Manohor Power, President, ICSD and Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Charl Stuwart University, Australia (patron of the conference)