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Education for Sustainable Development based on the Earth Charter
Get PDFThis is an essay of hope in humanity’s moral and intellectual capacity to envision, jointly plan, and carry-forth a concerted effort to meet the historically unique challenges we face and also to create opportunities for fulfilling the potential of our evolutionary heritage. It assumes that to achieve the above, it is imperative to strengthen the effectiveness of education, training and information sharing guided by common values and principles that buttress and foster ways of living in an integrally peaceful way. This will entail protecting and promoting fundamental human rights and freedoms, particularly the Right to Education
The Cosmopolitan Ethics of the Earth Charter: A Framework for a Pedagogy of Peace
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to philosophically explore the Earth Charter as a cosmopolitan ethical framework for a pedagogy of peace. The Earth Charter constitutes a powerful articulation of a framework of cosmopolitan ethical principles for a just, peaceful, and ecologically sustainable society. It is a deliberative product of a globalcivil society, derived from cross-cultural dialogue. It constitutes an “actually existing” cosmopolitan ethic. This paper will articulate the cosmopolitan ethics of the Earth Charter and as well as exploring it’s potential as a foundation for a pedagogy of peace
A Pedagogy of Alternatives: A Peace Education Comment on Mark Webb’s “Letter to Naomi Klein”
Get PDFA major characteristic of the pedagogy of peace education as I have practiced it, is positing, assessing, and strategizing alternatives to the current world order, i.e. transforming reality. The pedagogy of alternatives derives from a basic assertion about the world order and the suffering that is integral to it. The assertion can be summed up in a phrase I’ve used trying to break through the sense of the inevitability of violence and injustice that so profoundly affects the thinking of citizens and is an ever present shadow over class discussions, the specter of realism. It is that specter that lies at the heart of Mark Webb’s critique of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine and her theory of disaster
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Challenges Towards Nonproliferation in the Middle East
Get PDFThis article aims to develop a fundamental understanding of the theoretical background to nonproliferation; by defining concepts, i.e. deterrence, disarmament and arms control; discussing the role of culture in shaping security culture, thus approaches to nonproliferation; and focusing on the Middle East in relation to nonproliferation regimes, through the Middle East Peace Process, challenges, obstacles and the role of United States as an external player. It is relevant to argue that nonproliferation regimes (as a response to the nuclear proliferation during the Cold War and to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation in post-Cold War era) face political, economic, cultural and strategic challenges. These challenges, in the form of non-compliance and non-participation, are especially acute in the Middle East. They need to be addressed through regional and global security arrangements
Youth Initiatives in Conflict Zones: Focus Northern Ireland
Get PDFIn this paper I am looking at the role of Youth Work in the conflict zone which was Northern Ireland. Firstly, by way of context I will give a brief overview of historical relationship between the jurisdictions. This is necessary in order to understand the way the jurisdictions focus began, with some common sense of purpose, and how this focus began to change as the conflict developed