Solidarity in Pursuit of Authentic Human Development

A Student Symposium at the University of Notre Dame

Saturday, February 23, 2008 at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Presented by the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity, the Center for Social Concerns and the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Keynote address offered by Raymond C. Offenheiser, Jr., President, Oxfam America

In the recent decades, “development” has encouragingly taken on a more holistic, more human approach.  This approach transcends measures of mere economic growth by subsuming quality of life valuations tied to health, education, the environment, and basic rights and freedoms. Essential to this new ideology is the realization that authentic human development can only take place if local people are the agents of their own development.

With this symposium the University of Notre Dame charges the next generation of thinkers, both from our community and from other universities, to join the human development discourse, identifying challenges faced and suggesting possible solutions. Blending current theories with anecdotal observations and the results of various research methods, students will illuminate some of the paths leading towards authentic human development.

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