This conference brought together 40 participants, including 15 international experts from 17-18 August 2011 in Mexico City (Mexico) under the titled “Rethinking Development: Ethics and Social Inclusion." Participants agreed that an ethical approach to development offers a clear set of criteria for assessing the relevance of possible development alternatives, while debating the implications and the possible solutions to this assessment.
Many agreed on the importance of a more holistic understanding of human needs, and that a more sustainable society would require some profound changes - a "green" society would need to be much different in some ways. "Major disagreement" emerged, however, over whether progress and justice were possible within a State-centered, market-driven international system, or only with a radically different economic and political system.
UNESCO Press Release
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