February 21, 2025 (Friday, 15:00 -16:00 JST)
About the Webinar
Social business offers an alternative for creating and fostering a more sustainable, inclusive, and peaceful society. Either through their employment practices, products, services, or governance models, social businesses offer hope in a world dominated by skepticism. The hope is to create a world of three zeros: zero unemployment, zero poverty, and zero carbon emissions. This webinar will reveal some cases of successful social businesses in Colombia. This nation is struggling to achieve sustainable peace following decades of armed conflict that impacted all the dimensions of the Colombian State and society.
About the Speaker
María Isabel Irurita
Dr. María Isabel Irurita is a social enterprise and social innovation advisor, trainer, developer, and educator. She holds a PhD in Processes of Social Innovation. Previously, she was the Director of the MA in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently, she is the Director of the master’s degree in social innovation management at Universidad Icesi, in Cali, where she also leads the Yunus Centre for Social Innovation.
About the NERPS Webinar Series
The Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) at Hiroshima University in Japan is hosting a series of webinars on the relationship between peace and sustainability in the context of environmental, socio-political, economic, and technological transformations. This series is situated within the urgent need to deal with the implications of global change, including the COVID-19 pandemic, for peace and sustainability. The webinar sessions serve as a platform for rethinking and updating the current discourse on peace and sustainability amidst these global challenges and transformations. Leading experts will discuss the role of resources, digital technologies, migration, governance, and education in peacebuilding, conflict mitigation, humanitarian aid, and capacity-building, among other components that contribute to the achievement of the Sustainability Development Goals, particularly that of Goal 16 on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Check out our previous webinars here.
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