IDEA Annual Conference
2021
IDEA Virtual Conference 2021
Global Citizenship and Inequality 2021: Forging a New Path?
Tuesday – Thursday, 22 - 24 June 2021
Join us for our virtual conference Global Citizenship and Inequality in 2021: Forging a new Path?
Our aim is to 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.
Some of the questions we’ll be asking include:
While last year was characterised by empathy and solidarity, 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?
Join us to explore what we can do to forge a new path towards a rights-based recovery that supports equality for all.
Panels
Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre, and former chairperson UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Dr Lorna Gold, Social Scientist, Climate Activist, & Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies in Maynooth University
Valery Molay, Activist, UN Youth Delegate for Ireland 2019-2020, and former Chairperson of ENAR Ireland
Gavan Titley, Associate Professor Media Studies, Maynooth University, and Author of ‘Is Free Speech Racist?’
Amelia Cizwala Peterson, Assistant Country Director, GOAL Zimbabwe
Wongani Grace Taulo, Senior Advisor Education, Gender Equity and Inclusion, UNICEF
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Global Leader of Climate & Energy at WWF International, President of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP-20 in 2014
Bulelani Mfaco, Activist and Spokesperson for the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI)
Mark Malone, Communications Worker and Independent Researcher into the growth of extremist and far-right movements in Ireland
Stephen McCloskey, Director of the Centre for Global Education & Editor of Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review
Key Elements of the Conference
Workshops
Videos
Reports
Speakers
Philip Alston
Philip is a Professor of Law at New York University. From 2014 to 2020 he was UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He was previously Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from 1991 to 1998, and UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions form 2004 to 2010.
Orla McBreen
Orla McBreen is Director, Development Education and Civil Society unit, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Having completed her MA in European Studies at the College of Europe, Natolin, Poland, Orla taught EU Politics and Policies in both Natolin, and Bruges, Belgium. Since joining DFA in 2000 she has held a number of positions across the organisation including as Acting Director Strategy & Performance Division, Assistant Chief of Protocol, and Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. She worked for five years at the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN (New York) with responsibility for Human Rights and Gender Equality. She then took on the role of Consul General at the Irish Embassy in Chicago before returning to Ireland in 2016 to become Head of Public Service Reform at Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and recently completed an MA in Leadership and Strategy with the IPA in 2018.
