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Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavio
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Venue Name: Lusaka
Country: Zambia
City: Lusaka
Number of Attendees: Unknown
Webinar or Virtual Event: No
Start Date of Conference:: 07-18-2010
End Date of Conference: 07-22-2010
Description of Conference: What about us in ISSBD? What is our role as leaders of scholarship
that will make a difference for people in the world? At
some level, all human development research is likely to benefit
humankind eventually. But it is not always so, as some of our
ISSBD colleagues have documented. Linda Richter and Andy
Dawes have documented the suppression of science as well as
its destructive use in South Africa during apartheid. I have long
argued that science must be left free to reach scientific conclusions,
whatever they may be. At the same time, I strongly feel
that as citizens we must work to protect fellow citizens from
negative uses of scientific information. And those who choose to
should be able to conduct science that might enhance human
development. Here I think of the groundbreaking work on street
children being conducted by Suman Verma and her colleagues.
The popular film Slumdog Millionaire has made many millions of
people more aware of the challenges of growing up poor in
India. What the research of Verma and colleagues demonstrates
is that basic survival is not a given for many children in the
world, and for those who survive, their life circumstances are
not usually supportive of healthy development.
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