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16 February 2023 15:30-17:00 CET

Forgiveness - the latest contribution to the IDGs Framework?

- Mobilizing a movement towards the IDGs -


Forgiveness involves a shift from negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to positive ones after a transgression. It has been suggested by many thought leaders to be added to the IDG Framework.

We will be guided by a panel of Freddy Mutanguha, Executive Director of Aegis Trust, Laura Ulloa, Political Scientist, Columbia and Jonathan M Tirrell, PhD.

The Gathering will start 15.30 CET in Zoom. The official end is at 17, and after that it is possible to stay on for afterglow.


About the IDGs

In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals provided us with a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030.However, progress is not happening fast enough. 

There is an urgent need to increase our collective abilities to face and effectively work with complex challenges. This is why we are co-creating the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) - a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills that are needed to achieve the 17 SDGs.

The Inner Development Goals is a non-profit, open-source organization to help us develop the collective inner skills and qualities needed to overcome our global challenges and move towards a thriving world.

www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org


Speakers

Freddy Mutanguha
Executive Director

Based in Kigali Rwanda, Freddy Mutanguha is Executive Director of the Aegis Trust. Freddy led the development of Aegis’ peace education programme in Rwanda and is now leading Aegis’ work to take this model beyond the borders of Rwanda to areas at risk, including the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Kenya. Joining Aegis in 2004 during the construction of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre as a team leader responsible for genocide documentation, he was appointed Country Director in 2006. 

Freddy had trained as a teacher, securing a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the Kigali Institute of Education. He survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide as a teenager, and as an orphan head of household, he worked his way through school to become a leading advocate for peace and human rights education, helping to found AERG, Rwanda’s student survivors association, and going on to become Secretary General of IBUKA, the national umbrella association for Rwandan genocide survivors. Also an International Board member of the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation in Cambodia, Freddy lectures internationally on the impact of the genocide and on post-conflict reconstruction.

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Laura Ulloa
Political Scientist/Public Speaker

In 1999, Laura and her family were victims of one of the biggest mass kidnappings when a group of guerrilla members dressed up as the military captured around 300 people attending church in Cali, Colombia. Laura and her family were able to return home that same day; others were kept captive. Two years later, on September 20, 2002, members of the FARC-EP hijacked the school bus that Laura and her sister Andrea were riding home and took her as the only hostage. She was held captive for seven months. Despite the pain suffered by her and her family, today Laura offers us an interesting perspective through a refreshing and encouraging story for times of forgiveness and reconciliation. Laura is a political scientist from the University of the Andes, with a specialization in Organizations, Social Responsibility and Development. She has worked for the Security Council of the United Nations in New York, with the Colombian Agency for Reintegration, and with the Corona Foundation as a Coordinator for Social Projects in Colombia. She believes that peace is only possible when we rehumanize war and that without forgiveness a wounded society is not able to recover.

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Jonathan M Tirrell
PhD

Jonathan M. Tirrell, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Dr. Tirrell’s research interests include moral and character development, with a particular focus on forgiveness and its relation to individual and communal well-being and justice. He works on the Compassion International Study of Positive Youth Development, a longitudinal, multi-nation, multi-method evaluation of the youth development programs of Compassion International that seek to promote thriving among youth living in poverty worldwide. 

He serves as managing editor for the Journal of Character Education, and as associate editor for character development for Applied Developmental Science.

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The gathering takes place on Zoom. 

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