{"id":22266,"date":"2016-11-09T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=22266"},"modified":"2016-11-09T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:58:52","slug":"forest-whitaker-delivers-centenary-lecture-at-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies-university-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/11\/forest-whitaker-delivers-centenary-lecture-at-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies-university-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Whitaker delivers Centenary Lecture at The School of Oriental And African Studies, University Of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 November, artist, social activist and SDG Advocate Forest Whitaker delivered the Centenary Lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.<\/p>\n<p>During the lecture, Mr. Whitaker shared a conversation with Baroness Valerie Amos, the Director of SOAS and former Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. The conversation focused on Mr. Whitaker\u2019s experiences working in conflict zones with his foundation, the Whitaker Peace &amp; Development Initiative (WPDI), as well as his experiences as a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation and a member of the SDG Advocates. Mr. Whitaker and Ms. Amos also discussed how youth in conflict-impacted regions can be trained and equipped to transform their communities from within.<\/p>\n<p>Link to event details and the live webcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/centenary\/centenary-events\/08nov2016-centenary-lecture-forest-whitaker-artist-and-social-activist.html\">http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/centenary\/centenary-events\/08nov2016-centenary-lecture-forest-whitaker-artist-and-social-activist.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 November, artist, social activist and SDG Advocate Forest  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdg-advocates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}