Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Role of Universities in Pakistan

Abstract

Achievement sustainable development goals is the priority of the nations in the world. Sustainability is dependent on the peace and cannot be achieved without enhancing the vision of peace in youth. Universities have a significant role in enhancing the vision of in youth. The question is that whether our universities are meeting the needs of peace in society when violence and criminal attitude has been observed in the graduate youth as well. Therefore, this study has been conducted to explore the existing role of the universities in enhancing the vision of peace in youth to achieve the sustainable development goals. The participants of the study are faculty members of the universities and doctoral students in the faculties of social sciences. Before the collection of data, participants’ were ensured to keep their names confidential. Unstructured interviews have been used as tool of research. Questions in qualitative research are wide-ranging & ask for an investigation of the central concept in a study and are supportive in giving greater depth of understanding of a phenomenon that is largely unknown (Creswell, 2009). The study is an empirical addition in the knowledge about the existing role of the universities in enhancing the vision of peace in Pakistani youth. The study is supportive in revising the higher education policies and curriculum for further enhancing the vision of peace in graduates of the universities. The study is beneficial for the researchers and doctoral students in understanding the existing challenges in enhancing the vision of peace in universities students.