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Santo Domingo, R.D.- June 12, 2020 - The Chair of Sustainability "Alejandro E. Grullón E." from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and the Popular Foundation, held the Dialogue on Corporate Social Responsibility: COVID-19, CSR and "new normality", taught by Dr. Juan José Almagro, in virtual mode.
This webinar was held with the aim of informing about what is happening right now in the world, because beyond COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 and the economic and health crisis that we will face when we find ourselves immersed in the new normality, raised Angye Rincon, director of the Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability "Alejandro E. Grullón E.".
Dr. Juan Almagro explained that, before we were fully submerged in this pandemic, we lived moments of absolute uncertainty in the world, we did not know what was going to happen to us, we did not know what could happen to us. To reactivate this new normality we will have to unite, since the world economy has been affected like never before. “All economists have established as a basic criterion that surely after everything happens, inequality will have grown extraordinarily in the world”, assured Dr. Almagro.
With the phrase of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, "Power is not controlled by politicians and politics lacks the power to change anything", Almagro expressed that "to combat the new normality we must unite as nations, peoples, as one to combat this poverty extreme that this pandemic has given us.”
He proposed the battle of the three revolutions, in which he explained that for a country to advance greatly, it must first apply leadership and leading is educating, and in education people must be at the center of moral attention, we must focus on not only Universities have to train men and women, they have to be critically aware, ethically aware and socially aware, it is together that citizens will get ahead.
According to Almagro, the second revolution is "the struggle of women, the equalization of women, and beyond any class, it is an enormous waste that more than half of the world population is not developing its potential as it should and not here It is about not assigning conditions to each other, what matters a lot is that we stand shoulder to shoulder”.
At the end of the activity, Dr. Almagro stated that the ethical revolution is one of the great principles that unite us as human beings, regardless of our social class, the search for principles and values that are applicable here, now and that are perfectly combined with great classic values that man has had throughout his history; freedom, equality, fraternity along with other values that surely make us better. He concluded by stating that "there is an ethical horizon of responsibility without which life in common is impossible."