Sharjah24: The activities of the second international conference, "The Dynamics of Social Life in the Time of the Corona Pandemic and Beyond: Approaching Family Life, Education, and Sustainable Development," were concluded at the University of Sharjah.

Over two days, the conference discussed more than 90 research papers and scientific studies, with 36 researchers from the UAE and 56 participants from different countries. The discussions resulted in several recommendations, solutions, and development strategies for a better post-pandemic social life.

The conference stressed the importance of drawing up a public policy to mitigate the consequences of the Corona pandemic on all sectors of society and to provide a robust infrastructure that would enable health, educational, and service institutions to ensure the continuity of their work, in addition to providing sufficient data on groups affected more than others, such as working women, children, the poor, people with disabilities, and those without family care, to provide them with the necessary support; also, ensuring that families' awareness levels are raised about the content of the crisis and providing them with the necessary skills by qualified cadres to face the pandemic's aftermath, minimizing the psychological and moral damage that threatens the integrity of family cohesion.

The crisis also revealed apparent differences between Arab societies in managing education because of the difference in capabilities and infrastructure, which requires a development procedure of the infrastructure and training programmes to achieve continuity of high-quality education.