IDEA Annual Conference
2021

Join us to explore Global Citizenship and Inequality in 2021: Forging a new Path?

This conference will provide a space to explore global citizenship and inequality in the context of what’s happening in 2021. Covid 19 has highlighted inequality around the world, initially leading to an increased, collective sense of solidarity and empathy. While there has been a lot of discussion about creating a new normal and building back fairer, as with everything in the past year, this is now in flux as fatigue sets in and the vaccine roll out in many countries offers a glimpse of ‘normality’ and the comfort of the familiar.

• Last year was characterised by empathy and solidarity, but have we reached a crossroads? Will that sense of solidarity lead us to ‘build back fairer’, or is fatigue setting in and will the comfort of the familiar prove too strong?
  
• Covid has given us a lived experience of how essential global solidarity is, but how can we keep that sense of global citizenship alive? 
• How can Global Citizenship Education help people process this experience so that the lessons learnt inspire systemic change?