Department of geography at the faculty of education for humanities (Ibn Rushd), in cooperation with the Development Center for Studies and Training held its international geographic conference under the slogan (Sustainable development: a geographical perspective). The conference aimed at demonstrating the intellectual background of the emergence of the concept of sustainable development over time and to diagnose the role of geography in development thinking through its spatial dimensions in developing countries, including Iraq. The conference witnessed a great participation of instructors and researchers from various Iraqi universities with (58) research papers in sustainable development applications, sustainable development from a global perspective, the role of the sensor geographic information systems in achieving sustainable development, sustainable development of water resources, sustainable tourism development, scientific research and sustainable development and the role of geography in sustainable development. This conference was concluded by granting discretionary certificates for those participants for their quest in the success of its proceedings.