Sri Lanka Students’ Association in Japan Annual Research Conference 2024 (SLSAJARC 2024) was successfully held on the 15th of December 2024 as a virtual event. The conference theme this year was “Accelerating Sustainable Development in a Volatile Global Landscape“. SLSAJ has collaborated with the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in making this event a success.
The conference was aligned in five themes as follows.
The keynote speaker of the conference was Prof. Mohan Munasinghe. Prof. Munasinghe is the founder and chairman of Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND) and the MIND group. In addition, he was the Vice-chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, and the Blue Planet Prize winner in 2021.
In addition, the conference consisted of a sustainability forum which opened up different perspectives regarding current status of sustainable development in Sri Lanka and world. The distinguished sustainability forum members were:
Introductory Video of the Keynote Speaker
Introductory Video of the Panelists
Livestream: Conference Inauguration, Keynote Speech, and Sustainability Forum
Best Paper Awards