The Seventh South-South Forum on Sustainability (SSFS7) was organized by Global University for Sustainability and the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, together with 15 co-organizers, on 8 – 17 July 2020, in Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China, through both on-line and on-site participation.

SSFS7 focuses on the theme of “Climate Change, Global Crises, and Community Regeneration”. As a continuation of the debates of previous forums on reviewing critical situations and exploring alternatives, the SSFS7 aims to examine the current state of affairs, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Cold War, nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear power plant catastrophes, climate change, weather extremities, environmental pollution, food and fresh water shortages, US geopolitical and currency domination, and the US sanctions against Venezuela, Iran, and China.

Taking note of the consequences and effects on nature and on peoples especially those from the global south, the Forum has brought together academic scholars, feminists, peace activists, community workers, food producers, and rural regeneration promoters to review, articulate and debate theories and practices in transformative and collective actions called forth by the crises of capitalism affecting the ecological, the social, the political, and the economic.

Drawing upon experiences of community governance in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the Forum is a platform for dialogues and exchanges among grassroots and resistance practices in the production, dissemination and use of knowledge as instruments of problematization and self-organization, as well as interactions among thinkers in search of paradigms for peace and justice.

The Seventh SSFS is composed of:

• 08-09 July : Workshops: Confronting the Triple Trap of Pandemic, Economic Downturn and Climate Crisis in India and China
• 10-12 July : Main Forum: Climate Change, Global Crises, and Community Regeneration
• 14-15 July : Workshops: Feminists Yearning, Imagining and Organizing for Just Peace and Genuine Security
• 16 July : Workshops: Confronting the Triple Trap in Mexico, Venezuela, and the Mekong Region
• 17 July : E-Lectures
• 23-30 July : E-Lectures

For the Reader and full Participants List, please see https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/seventh-south-south-forum-on-sustainability-ssfs7/

Organizers 主辦:

• Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
  嶺南大學文化研究系
• Global University for Sustainability
  全球大學

Co-organizers 協辦:

• Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA)
  亞洲學者交流中心
• Lingnan Gardeners
  嶺南彩園
• PeaceWomen Across the Globe
  全球和平婦女
• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política Social, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santos, Brazil
  巴西聖埃斯皮里托大學社會政治研究生部
• Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes, Brazil
  巴西弗洛雷斯坦·費爾南德斯國際培訓學院
• ALBA Movimientos, Chapter Venezuela
  委內瑞拉丁美洲玻利瓦爾聯盟運動
• Barter Community Mixiuhca and Ecomun Network, Mexico
  墨西哥米修卡社區經濟聯盟
• Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
  泰國朱拉隆功大學政治科學院社會發展研究中心
• Office of Strategic Architecture, Indonesia
  印度尼西亞建築策劃工作室
• Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, UK
  英國裁軍外交學會
• Centre for Film Studies and Cultural Studies, Peking University
  北京大學電影與文化研究中心
• Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China
  中國人民大學鄉村建設中心
• Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
  清華大學人文與社會科學高等研究所
• Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University
  西南大學中國鄉村建設學院
• Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
  福建農林大學海峽鄉村建設學院
• Green Ground Eco-Tech Centre (Beijing)
  國仁城鄉 (北京) 科技發展中心