Prof. Dr. Adnan Yassin Mustafa, a faculty member at the college of education for women has delivered recently a scientific lecture entitled (Human and social development and sustainable development goals: challenges and opportunities) at an invitation from the director of Tammuz Organization for Social Development in Baghdad. In his lecture, he shed light on the path of comprehensive sustainable development in Iraq which remains stalled as Iraq faces a wide range of challenges, some of which are likely to become constrained in its efforts to enhance the quality of life towards a fairer, more sustainable and developed human being.
However, inequality remains significant and worrying, particularly in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, economic crises, climate change, the sweeping wave of technological change and the resulting fourth industrial revolution, which is creating new generations of inequalities whose manifestations are manifested in human development gaps through new forms and patterns of inequalities, where the inequality of potential is evolving in different ways. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Adnan Yassin recommended the adoption of curricula that include an evaluation framework for the manifestations and repercussions of the crisis and the formulation of responsive social policies that emphasize the potential of people and promote equity and capacity-building, as each country tries to fill development gaps and heal wounds to reach human development, promote community cohesion and achieve quality of life and sustainability.
