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Projekt Titel
SDG Campus Online Course "Social Sustainability"
Type
Internal Funding
Startdatum
November 16, 2024
Enddatum
May 31, 2025
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Institut
Projektleitung
Co-Projektleitung
Weber, Valentin Severin
Mitarbeitende
Marcus Cordes
In this course, we deal with the concept of social sustainability and its anchoring in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. We understand social sustainability as a normative and descriptive term that refers to forms of participation in a society: Which forms of participation are (a) normatively desirable and (b) contribute to securing social peace and thus to the stability of human societies? We understand the SDGs as a catalog of goals that are just as committed to the preservation of stable social orders as they are to the normative demand for freedom and equality as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The SDGs represent a basic consensus, but leave any further development of participation structures and the underlying ideas of freedom and equality to the member states. This has to do with the fact that there are different philosophical concepts of freedom and equality, which can differ massively depending on the culture - and, associated with this, different ideas of social participation and the legitimacy of state power. In order to sensitize students to these differences, the course discusses various concepts of freedom and equality. In the end, however, we do not end up with cultural relativism: human rights remain the non-negotiable framework within which concrete social structures can be shaped.