Article Excerpt: Participants in a historic international symposium at Dartmouth on the unprecedented, worldwide collapse of mental health and well-being among young people were left with a hopeful message—and a call to action.
“These kinds of collective action problems, in which everybody wants the same thing, but we are acting in a way that goes against what we all want, are actually not social dilemma problems,” Pedro Conceição, director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office, said in an address on Oct. 28.
“These are coordination problems. And coordination problems are much easier to solve and address, because we all want the same thing. So I think there is hope here.”
The Oct. 26-28 symposium, A Global Turning Point: Why Youth Well-Being Is in Crisis—and What We Must Do About It, was co-hosted by Dartmouth and the UNDP.
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