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Youth camp facilitated by Saja on innovative community solutions – Sri Lanka

Six youth teams in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka were engaged in developing innovative solutions to emerging community problems. In the final day, 6 innovative community solutions projects were presented by the multidisciplinary and multi-ethnic groups. The participants were involved in an extensive team building exercise guided by resource persons just after the...

Interreligious Prayer and Meditation Session followed by Panel Discussion on Role of Religious Leaders for Actions for Peace: Our Ambitions for the #GlobalGoals

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations GeneralAssembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously votedto designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. Each year the International Dayof Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly hasdeclared this as a day devoted...

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL (SDG 12): ‘RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION’ – ENGINEERS ARE IN THE FOREFRONT OF DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS

BY ENG. (DR.) SAJA A. A. MAJEED Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) cuts across many sectors such as air, water and sanitation, energy and waste. It has a closer link to many sectors related to economy including food, transport, tourism, construction and health. An economic growth of a nation or a community should not...

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL (SDG 16): ‘PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS’ – ENGINEERS CREATE A CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEACEFUL AND JUST SOCIETY

https://iesl.lk/SLEN/59/SDG.php ‘Since wars begin in the minds of men and women it is in the minds of men and women that the defences of peace must be constructed’ – UNESCO Peace and justice are key corner stones of a healthy society and they are two sides of the same coin (Eisenhower 1958) and true...

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL (SDG 15): ‘LIFE ON LAND’ – ENGINEERS ARE KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF ECOSYSTEMS AND PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY

BY ENG. (DR.) SAJA A. A. MAJEED https://iesl.lk/SLEN/58/SDG.php Land is a fundamental resource for dignified human living, primarily for safer dwelling in this era. It is required for developing a number of socio-economic sectors too, such as agriculture, forestry, irrigation, plantation, and industries, apart from the need for other large-scale physical infrastructures such as...

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Vasantham – Interview on disaster resilience

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