International Day of Families Online Youth Discussion
May 15, 2021 3:00pm EDT
Every year on May 15th the International Day of Families is observed by the United Nations in order to provide “an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase the knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families.”
International Association of Youth and Students for Peace will be hosting an online discussion on the topic of “Strong Families as Essential for Peace” with guest speaker, Lynn Walsh of Universal Peace Federation International.
On 25 September 2015, the 193 member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted
As many may know, the United Nations member states created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Families are seen as a key aspect in order to achieve these goals by 2030. As mentioned on the UN website, the SDGs are “a set of 17 goals aiming to eliminate poverty, discrimination, abuse and preventable deaths, address environmental destruction, and usher in an era of development for all people, everywhere. Families and family-oriented policies and programmes are vital for the achievement of many of these goals.”
Guest Speaker
Lynn Walsh, MSW, MDiv
Lynn Walsh has a Masters in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University and Masters in Divinity from Unification Theological Seminary. She taught sociology at the University of Bridgeport for over 15 years and currently teaches at the Unification Theological Seminary. She is the Director of the Universal Peace Federation International Office of the Family and serves on the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee on the Family at the United Nations representing UPF. She was an adolescent and family therapist earlier in her career. Lynn is certified to teach numerous relationship education programs. She and her husband, Thomas Walsh, have two sons and two granddaughters.