The Peace Process Will Not be Tweeted
Monica Curca email: monicabcurca@gmail.com / peaceforsale@gmail.com website: http://peaceforsale.org/ Abstract: Of late new media and digital technologies have been instrumental in bringing about social change throughout the world. This article asks if it is possible for new media and digital technologies to also bring peace? Media and communications have a long history in being used as an instrument for […]
The Life Vest Inside™ Kindness Curriculum: Understanding, Refining, Implementing and Growing in Kindness from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade
Lydia Criss Mays Ph.D. Georgia State University Department of Early Childhood Education e-mail: lcriss1@gsu.edu web: www.seebeautiful.com Abstract: In response to growing demands to provide more real-life experiences for children during the school day that are based on improving critical thinking and increasing awareness and use of lifeskills, Life Vest Inside™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) has […]
What is global education about?
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor of Global Education vanessa.andreotti@oulu.fi The letter below written by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, professor of global education at the University of Oulu, exemplifies the urgency for education to enlarge possibilities for thinking and relating to each other in complex, uncertain, plural and deeply unequal societies. Dear Mr. Obama, 44th President […]
Seeking Peace
Shahbaz Israr Khan Visiting Faculty at UN mandated University for Peace shahbazasrar@yahoo.com Seeking Peace Sun has descended with the fear of darkness Mountains and deserts fearing with its sharpness Plants and trees all in slumber Wants to wake them from the tools of plumber My home is submerged in the ocean of blood Should […]
From Swords to Ploughshares: Study Abroad as a means of post-conflict Peacebuilding
Mark Flanigan Program Director at Japan ICU Foundation markinmitaka@gmail.com – I am quite honored to write for Global Education Magazine and to share the reflections of my work as Program Director at Japan ICU Foundation, for this special edition the International School Day of Non-Violence and Peace. As a Rotary Peace Fellow alumnus, I […]
No country of white men
. Marie Mainil Director of the Student Peace Alliance at The Peace Alliance marie@thepeacealliance.org . Banner in the entrance of Obama 2012 HQ – Remember that scene in the movie Money Ball when cigar smoking, fairly aged white men made decisions out of smoke around the power table? That’s how elections used to be […]
Peace and Conflict Resolution. Democratic Republic of Congo
By Samuel M. Muderhwa PCR President Founder & coordinator pastor.samuelm@gmail.com Background of the PCR Peace and Conflict Resolution was founded in Bukavu, South-Kivu by MULUMEODERHWA MUDERHWA Samuel and his wife Faida in 2004. They both completed a High diploma from the school of Mediation in Nairobi in 2006. This challenged them to continue to […]
Towards a 21st Century Heavenly Paradise on Earth
Melcir Erskine-Richmond Founder-CEO-Visionary Catalyst – First the Earth LandSea International Eco-Holistic-Living City Models Network first-the-earth@hotmail.com Having worked first in the publishing sphere in Australia, and then for a UK shipping publisher, and having also written a lengthy Annual Report for United Nations FAO sub-group, the UK Freedom From Hunger Campaign, while in England, I […]
How Human Legacy is UNITED in My Heart
By Catharina van Staveren Public Relations and Communications Advisor catharina.van.staveren@xs4all.nl The interesting thing is, that I received, a most lovely contribution, posted in a discussion through Linkedin, and I must say I was quite surprised, realizing that Melcir Erskine-Richmond (1)who posted this video, gave a very beautiful and interesting meaning to the trailer, and the […]
Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That?
Cathryn Cushner Edelstein Scholar-In-Residence at Emerson College Cathryn_Edelstein@emerson.edu The rules of communication are not universal – they are specific to particular cultures. International students who attend school in the U.S. often prepare for years by learning English. Often they have learned English from a non-native speaker who teaches with the use of a textbook, scripted dialogues […]
