Inclusive Development with Dr. Ravi Verma and Dr. Serene Khader

Overview

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We continue the dialogue with our second of five conversations with today’s focus on Inclusive Development, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Other topics in this series explore Climate Justice, Empowerment, Democratic Values, and an Introduction to Development Ethics.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international/ 

Panelist Biographies

Dr. Serene Khader holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and is a Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her most recent book, Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic asks what values should guide transnational feminist solidarity. And she is currently writing a book entitled The Freedom Myth about why we need to stop thinking feminism's core value is freedom and start thinking it's equality.

Dr. Ravi Verma is the Asia Director of the International Center for Research on Women and leads local and regional efforts on an array of issues, including reproductive health, family planning, preventing domestic violence, child marriage, engaging men and boys to empower women, HIV/AIDS and economic development.