22nd International Conference on Sustainable Development 2025
September 03-04, 2025
Event Location
BMICH
Bandaranayake Memorial International Conference Hall
Bauddhaloka Mawatha
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
22nd International Conference on Sustainable Development 2025
is jointly presented by
International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law (ICIRL),
Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy (CRSJP) at Laurentian University, Canada;
Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA), Canada;
Department of Studies and Research in Political Science, Tumkur University, India;
Institute of Management Studies, Davangere University, India.
Faculty of Commerce, Anjaneya University, Raipur,
Chhattisgarh, India.
Host Country Sri Lanka Partner Institute
International Center for Multidisciplinary Studies,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
and
Department of Civil Engineering
Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
Important Dates
Last Day to submit Abstract / Paper / Presentation - August 10, 2025
Last date to register - August 15, 2025
Note:
Abstracts/Papers, acceptances issued on a rolling basis until August 15, 2025.
Please submit your Abstract/Paper as early as possible
Major Themes
The International Conference on Sustainable Development consists of following themes.
1. Development, 2. Economics, 3. Environment and Natural Resources, 4. Food and Agriculture, 5. Governance,
6. Health, 7. Information and communication, 8. Science and technology, 9. Social policy. 10. Gender equality
Sub-themes:
(1) Entrepreneurship and Stat-ups, (2) Social Exclusion and Inclusive Development
Updated on September 01, 2025 14:00 hrs EDT
Last Day to submit Abstract / Paper / Presentation - August 10, 2025
Last date to register - August 15, 2025
Note:
Abstracts/Papers, acceptances issued on a rolling basis until August 15, 2025.
Please submit your Abstract/Paper as early as possible
Major Themes
The International Conference on Sustainable Development consists of following themes.
1. Development, 2. Economics, 3. Environment and Natural Resources, 4. Food and Agriculture, 5. Governance,
6. Health, 7. Information and communication, 8. Science and technology, 9. Social policy. 10. Gender equality
Sub-themes:
(1) Entrepreneurship and Stat-ups, (2) Social Exclusion and Inclusive Development
Updated on September 01, 2025 14:00 hrs EDT
Introduction
Call for Papers
Registration
Accepted Papers
FAQs
Program
Visa, Official Invitation, Cancellation and Refund
Travel and Accommodation
Conference Contacts
Program
Program at a glance
September 03, 2025
1:00 - 4:00 PM Registration Begins and Networking
4:30 PM 7:00 PM Opening Plenary Session
7:30 PM - Buffet Dinner
End 9:00 PM
September 04, 2024 ( 3 Parallel and one special sessions )
8:30 AM - Attendence/Registration
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Sessions (Include Health/Coffee/Tea break)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Sessions (Include Health/Coffee/Tea Break
05:30 PM - Special Session
7:00 PM - Special session end
7:30 PM - Dinner
9:30 PM End
Conference Co-chair
Dr. Henri Pallard, LL.B., Ph.D.
Canada.
Emeritus Professor Law and Justice
Director, International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law
Laurentian University, Canada.
Dr. Henri Pallard is the Director of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law and Professor emeritus in the
Department of Law and Justice, Laurentian University, Sudbury (Ontario), Canada. He is broadly interested in the relationship
between culture and human rights as it manifests itself in both western and non western cultures. From 1994 to 2005, he was
the Director of Persons, Culture and Rights (Personne, culture et droits), an international North/South research team which
was funded by the International Francophone University (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie). During this period, he
worked closely with researchers and academics from Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt distilling the cultural issues underlying the
interpretation and implementation of human rights, the rule of law and democracy in North Africa.
From 2010 to 2016, he was the Associate Director, Poverty, Homelessness and Migration, at Laurentian University, which
received a $1 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Working in
partnership with First Nations and northern communities, this five-year project examined the underlying causes of poverty,
poor housing, homelessness, and out-migration in northern Ontario. For its outstanding work under its Director of SSHRC, it
received the SSRHC Impact Partnership Award.
In 2003, Dr. Henri Pallard was invited to present the Vice-President’s Lecture. In 2008, he was awarded the Laurentian
University Research Excellence Award in recognition of his work internationally which contributed significantly to the
reputation and prestige of the university. In 2010 he was the recipient of the 2010 Saint-Jean Award of Merit for Distinguished
Alumni. This award is the most prestigious honour that the Saint-Jean Campus, University of Alberta, bestows upon one
alumnus each year in recognition for demonstrating leadership in her/his profession. In 2022, he received the Order of Merit of
the AJEFO (Franco-Ontarian Association of Jurists) for his contribution to Francophone access to justice.
Dr. Pallard received his PhD in philosophy of law from the University of Nice (France), summa cum laude. He held a doctoral
scholarship from the France-Canada cultural exchange programme (1976-1981). He then obtained his law degree (J.D.) from
McGill University (1984). He is also a member of the Ontario Bar. In 1992-1993, he held a postdoctoral fellowship from the
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie and was a research fellow at the Université de Paris II, France. He has been a
visiting professor at the Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales de Tunis, Tunisia (1997), Université Cadi
Ayyad, Marrakech, Maroc (1998 and 2010), Ain Chams University, Cairo, Egypte (2000), South West University of Science
and Technology (2002), Mianyang, China, Université Grenoble Alpes, France (2005), Institut franco-chinois, Renmin
University of China (2017), British University in Egypt (2019-2022).
He has published five books, edited ten others and published more than 75 articles and chapters in international journals and
books. He has also given more than 150 scholarly presentations.
Special Session
September 04, 2025
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Session Leader
Paul A. Barresi, J.D., M.A.L.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Law, SNHU
Adjunct Professor of Law (& Fulbright Lecturer in Law, Spring 2016),
Sun Yat-sen University School of Law, Guangzhou, People Republic of China.
Co-Chair, Department of Social Sciences, SNHU
Coordinator, Politics and Global Affairs Program, SNHU
Campus Pre-Law Advisor, SNHU
School of Arts, Sciences, and Education
Southern New Hampshire University (SMHU)
2500 North River Road
Manchester, NH 03106
USA.
Panelists
Dr. Michael A. Reiter, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, and Chair
Department of Integrated Environmental Science
Bethune-Cookman Universty
Daytona Beach, FL,
USA.
Dr. Rick Smardon, Ph.D.
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Studies
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York,
USA.
Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Roundtable, which produced a plan to rearrange and to expand
into following areas.
(1) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice:
Foundational Thematic Principles;
(2) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: The
Administrative Challenge;
(3) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: The
Pedagogical Challenge;
(4) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: Program
Evaluation and Transformation; and
(5) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: From the
Classroom to the Workplace..
This set of five papers lends itself to being presented in a workshop format in which participants would end up evaluating the
consistency of their own programs or courses with the SHES approach and identifying steps that could be taken to align them
more closely with it. If there were representatives of professional associations present, then they could do the same with their
standards of practice or codes of ethics.
The SHES approach is the work of the SHES Roundtable. Since 2009, the SHES Roundtable has been a collaborative forum
for college and university faculty and administrators, practitioners, and others from throughout North America and beyond to
pursue their commitment to providing students in institutions of higher education with the knowledge and skills needed by
practitioners and citizens alike to meet the existential sustainability challenges that plague the modern world. The result has
been the SHES approach to sustainability education and practice, a living set of recommendations about the pedagogy and
administration of interdisciplinary and higher-order, sustainability-focused programs in higher education and their implications
for sustainability practice. The SHES approach is a holistic one that embraces the education not only of students per se but
also of practitioners, stakeholders, and citizens as a prerequisite for success in building a world of sustainable societies.
The Roundtable's edited book, Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice
(Routledge, 2019), is the most comprehensive summary of our first decade of work. Our subsequent article in the OIDA
International Journal of Sustainable Development, "The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems Approach to
Sustainability Education and Practice: Foundational Principles, Pedagogical Strategies, and Administrative Considerations"
(2022), which Dr. Paul Barresi presented at the OIDA conference in Bangkok, updates and expands upon the key elements of
the SHES approach.
What Dr. Paul Barresi and his team will be presenting at the special session in Sri Lanka updates and expands upon the
content of that paper (as five papers) to reflect the outcomes of the 18th Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems
Roundtable, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, in October 2024.
First Sub Session
First Sub-session: The first sub-session of the workshop will be a presentation of the SHES approach, organized as a
sequence of five paper presentations, each of which will include its own question-and-answer session. Those presentations
will be on the following topics, presented by the following presenters:
(1) Foundational Thematic Principles--Presented by Mike Reiter (online) and Paul Barresi (onsite)
(2) The Administrative Challenge--Presented by Mike Reiter (online)
(3) The Pedagogical Challenge--Presented by Paul Barresi (onsite)
(4) From the Classroom to the Workplace--Presented by Rick Smardon (online)
Second Sub-session:
(5) Program Evaluation and Transformation--Presented by Paul Barresi (onsite) and Mike Reiter (online)
Workshop/discussion
The fifth paper is about applying the SHES approach to the standards of practice and codes of ethics of relevant professional
associations.
The second sub-session will start with a brief recapitulation of the highlights of presentation 4 from the first sub-session,
including a question-and-answer period, that will focus more precisely on how to use the tools introduced in presentation 4 to
evaluate and to transform courses and programs along the holistic lines recommended by the SHES approach. Then the
participants will break up into singles and groups for however long you want to allocate for the workshop part of the sub-
session, during which they will use the program evaluation and transformation tools from presentation 4 of the first sub-
session to evaluate their own programs and courses at their own universities in the light of the SHES approach and to
envision plans for transforming those programs and courses along the holistic lines recommended by the SHES approach
itself. As an alternative, interested participants may do the same things with the professional standards of practice or codes of
ethics of their own professional associations.
As the on-site presenter, Dr. Barresi will circulate among the singles and groups to answer questions, to offer guidance and
feedback in real time, and the like. In the more intensive version of the workshop, all participants would reconvene as a group
after a short break to present and to discuss the results of their work with me and the other workshop participants.
If you require more information, please contact our office.
Conference Secretariat
Ontario International Development Agency
2581 River Mist Road
Ottawa,
Ontario, K2J 6G1
Canada.
Tel: + 1 613 612 7615
e-mail: oida@ontariointernational.org
website: www.ontariointernational.org
End 9:00 PM
September 04, 2024 ( 3 Parallel and one special sessions )
8:30 AM - Attendence/Registration
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Sessions (Include Health/Coffee/Tea break)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Sessions (Include Health/Coffee/Tea Break
05:30 PM - Special Session
7:00 PM - Special session end
7:30 PM - Dinner
9:30 PM End
Conference Co-chair
Dr. Henri Pallard, LL.B., Ph.D.
Canada.
Emeritus Professor Law and Justice
Director, International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law
Laurentian University, Canada.
Dr. Henri Pallard is the Director of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law and Professor emeritus in the
Department of Law and Justice, Laurentian University, Sudbury (Ontario), Canada. He is broadly interested in the relationship
between culture and human rights as it manifests itself in both western and non western cultures. From 1994 to 2005, he was
the Director of Persons, Culture and Rights (Personne, culture et droits), an international North/South research team which
was funded by the International Francophone University (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie). During this period, he
worked closely with researchers and academics from Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt distilling the cultural issues underlying the
interpretation and implementation of human rights, the rule of law and democracy in North Africa.
From 2010 to 2016, he was the Associate Director, Poverty, Homelessness and Migration, at Laurentian University, which
received a $1 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Working in
partnership with First Nations and northern communities, this five-year project examined the underlying causes of poverty,
poor housing, homelessness, and out-migration in northern Ontario. For its outstanding work under its Director of SSHRC, it
received the SSRHC Impact Partnership Award.
In 2003, Dr. Henri Pallard was invited to present the Vice-President’s Lecture. In 2008, he was awarded the Laurentian
University Research Excellence Award in recognition of his work internationally which contributed significantly to the
reputation and prestige of the university. In 2010 he was the recipient of the 2010 Saint-Jean Award of Merit for Distinguished
Alumni. This award is the most prestigious honour that the Saint-Jean Campus, University of Alberta, bestows upon one
alumnus each year in recognition for demonstrating leadership in her/his profession. In 2022, he received the Order of Merit of
the AJEFO (Franco-Ontarian Association of Jurists) for his contribution to Francophone access to justice.
Dr. Pallard received his PhD in philosophy of law from the University of Nice (France), summa cum laude. He held a doctoral
scholarship from the France-Canada cultural exchange programme (1976-1981). He then obtained his law degree (J.D.) from
McGill University (1984). He is also a member of the Ontario Bar. In 1992-1993, he held a postdoctoral fellowship from the
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie and was a research fellow at the Université de Paris II, France. He has been a
visiting professor at the Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales de Tunis, Tunisia (1997), Université Cadi
Ayyad, Marrakech, Maroc (1998 and 2010), Ain Chams University, Cairo, Egypte (2000), South West University of Science
and Technology (2002), Mianyang, China, Université Grenoble Alpes, France (2005), Institut franco-chinois, Renmin
University of China (2017), British University in Egypt (2019-2022).
He has published five books, edited ten others and published more than 75 articles and chapters in international journals and
books. He has also given more than 150 scholarly presentations.
Special Session
September 04, 2025
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Session Leader
Paul A. Barresi, J.D., M.A.L.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Law, SNHU
Adjunct Professor of Law (& Fulbright Lecturer in Law, Spring 2016),
Sun Yat-sen University School of Law, Guangzhou, People Republic of China.
Co-Chair, Department of Social Sciences, SNHU
Coordinator, Politics and Global Affairs Program, SNHU
Campus Pre-Law Advisor, SNHU
School of Arts, Sciences, and Education
Southern New Hampshire University (SMHU)
2500 North River Road
Manchester, NH 03106
USA.
Panelists
Dr. Michael A. Reiter, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, and Chair
Department of Integrated Environmental Science
Bethune-Cookman Universty
Daytona Beach, FL,
USA.
Dr. Rick Smardon, Ph.D.
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Studies
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York,
USA.
Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Roundtable, which produced a plan to rearrange and to expand
into following areas.
(1) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice:
Foundational Thematic Principles;
(2) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: The
Administrative Challenge;
(3) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: The
Pedagogical Challenge;
(4) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: Program
Evaluation and Transformation; and
(5) The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) Approach to Sustainability Education and Practice: From the
Classroom to the Workplace..
This set of five papers lends itself to being presented in a workshop format in which participants would end up evaluating the
consistency of their own programs or courses with the SHES approach and identifying steps that could be taken to align them
more closely with it. If there were representatives of professional associations present, then they could do the same with their
standards of practice or codes of ethics.
The SHES approach is the work of the SHES Roundtable. Since 2009, the SHES Roundtable has been a collaborative forum
for college and university faculty and administrators, practitioners, and others from throughout North America and beyond to
pursue their commitment to providing students in institutions of higher education with the knowledge and skills needed by
practitioners and citizens alike to meet the existential sustainability challenges that plague the modern world. The result has
been the SHES approach to sustainability education and practice, a living set of recommendations about the pedagogy and
administration of interdisciplinary and higher-order, sustainability-focused programs in higher education and their implications
for sustainability practice. The SHES approach is a holistic one that embraces the education not only of students per se but
also of practitioners, stakeholders, and citizens as a prerequisite for success in building a world of sustainable societies.
The Roundtable's edited book, Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice
(Routledge, 2019), is the most comprehensive summary of our first decade of work. Our subsequent article in the OIDA
International Journal of Sustainable Development, "The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems Approach to
Sustainability Education and Practice: Foundational Principles, Pedagogical Strategies, and Administrative Considerations"
(2022), which Dr. Paul Barresi presented at the OIDA conference in Bangkok, updates and expands upon the key elements of
the SHES approach.
What Dr. Paul Barresi and his team will be presenting at the special session in Sri Lanka updates and expands upon the
content of that paper (as five papers) to reflect the outcomes of the 18th Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems
Roundtable, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, in October 2024.
First Sub Session
First Sub-session: The first sub-session of the workshop will be a presentation of the SHES approach, organized as a
sequence of five paper presentations, each of which will include its own question-and-answer session. Those presentations
will be on the following topics, presented by the following presenters:
(1) Foundational Thematic Principles--Presented by Mike Reiter (online) and Paul Barresi (onsite)
(2) The Administrative Challenge--Presented by Mike Reiter (online)
(3) The Pedagogical Challenge--Presented by Paul Barresi (onsite)
(4) From the Classroom to the Workplace--Presented by Rick Smardon (online)
Second Sub-session:
(5) Program Evaluation and Transformation--Presented by Paul Barresi (onsite) and Mike Reiter (online)
Workshop/discussion
The fifth paper is about applying the SHES approach to the standards of practice and codes of ethics of relevant professional
associations.
The second sub-session will start with a brief recapitulation of the highlights of presentation 4 from the first sub-session,
including a question-and-answer period, that will focus more precisely on how to use the tools introduced in presentation 4 to
evaluate and to transform courses and programs along the holistic lines recommended by the SHES approach. Then the
participants will break up into singles and groups for however long you want to allocate for the workshop part of the sub-
session, during which they will use the program evaluation and transformation tools from presentation 4 of the first sub-
session to evaluate their own programs and courses at their own universities in the light of the SHES approach and to
envision plans for transforming those programs and courses along the holistic lines recommended by the SHES approach
itself. As an alternative, interested participants may do the same things with the professional standards of practice or codes of
ethics of their own professional associations.
As the on-site presenter, Dr. Barresi will circulate among the singles and groups to answer questions, to offer guidance and
feedback in real time, and the like. In the more intensive version of the workshop, all participants would reconvene as a group
after a short break to present and to discuss the results of their work with me and the other workshop participants.
If you require more information, please contact our office.
Conference Secretariat
Ontario International Development Agency
2581 River Mist Road
Ottawa,
Ontario, K2J 6G1
Canada.
Tel: + 1 613 612 7615
e-mail: oida@ontariointernational.org
website: www.ontariointernational.org
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