La Inteligencia Cibernética Planetaria: un Territorio Democrático Transcultural y Transhumanista
English version here [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108872238″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Karibu! La palabra democracia viene del griego “demos”, que significa pueblo y es quien detenta el poder soberano. De este modo, la democracia está estrechamente interrelacionada con la metacognición de los sentimientos y principios fundamentales de las otras personas. Por este motivo, las políticas […]
Carta abierta del Sr. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel al Presidente de los EE.UU. de Norteamérica Barack Hussein Obama
Escucha el clamor de los pueblos! La situación en Siria es preocupante y una vez más los EE.UU., erigiéndose en gendarme del mundo, pretende invadir Siria en nombre de la “Libertad” y los “derechos humanos”. Tu predecesor George W. Bush en su locura mesiánica supo instrumentalizar el fundamentalismo religioso para llevar a cabo las guerras en Afganistán e Irak. Cuando […]
Global Education Magazine: Human Rights Day
Download the magazine here IN MEMORIAM: NELSON MANDELA We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address (10 December 1993) AMANDLA! Global Education Magazine is […]
Questões Acerca da Transdemocracia ou Multidocracia na Sociedade Telemática Contemporânea
Dante Augusto Galeffi Professor associado IV da UFBA, professor permanente dos programas de pós-graduação em educação dgaleffi@uol.com.br . Há o consenso de que a democracia é ainda a única palavra-chave para indicar o regime político fundado nos direitos e deveres humanos universais. Diz-se, então, que a democracia é a única alternativa política para as sociedades […]
Interview with Prof. P. Krishna: Education, Science and Spirituality
Global Education Magazine logo meaning from Global Education Magazine Javier Collado Ruano: Dear Prof. Padmanabhan Krishna, thank you very much for all the conferences that you are doing these months around Brazil, and thank you to give us also the opportunity to know a little bit more about your theosophical approach to Education, Science and […]
Post-2015 Development Agenda: Targeting Poverty through Sustainable Peace
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/109240604″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Mugo Mugo Conflict Researcher and Co-Founder of African Media Initiative on Development (AMID-Africa). Masters of Arts Student of Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at Innsbruck University March 2014. Holder of Masters Degree in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from UN’s-Mandated University for Peace (2012). e-mail: […]
Democracy, Sustainability and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Ashish Kothari Founder-member, Kalpavriksh e-mail: chikikothari@gmail.com http://radicalecologicaldemocracy.wordpress.com / www.iccaconsortium.org Abstract: In the context of the ongoing review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and their possible replacement by a new framework in 2015, it is important to highlight the issues of democracy, ecologically sustainability and socio-economic equity as being central to such a framework. This article puts forth ideas […]
Democracy and Democratic Transition: Lessons from Egypt and Tunisia
Matthew J. Gordner Founder and Director of the The Peace by Piece Initiative, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to dialogue on sensitive issues of local and global scope. Scholar at the Trudeau Foundation and a PhD Student in the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science. e-mail: matt.gordner@mail.utoronto.ca / web: www.thepeacebypieceinitiative.com . [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/111769501″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ […]
Tilting the Playing Field: The Modular Appeal of Competitive Authoritarianism
Charles Larratt-Smith Vice President of Latin American Affairs for the The Peace by Piece Initiative, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to dialogue on sensitive issues of local and global scope. PhD Student, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science e-mail: c.larratt.smith@mail.utoronto.ca web: www.thepeacebypieceinitiative.com . Abstract: In this article I examine the recent elections found in six competitive authoritarian, ‘semi-democratic’ countries: […]
Human Collaboration the Peoples Revolution of a Global Learning Framework
Richard Close CEO-Servant, The Chrysalis Campaign. As a senior consultant, Richard has developed programs for different companies, including poverty curriculum development in Bridgeport, CT and the development of a UNESCO PPN African portal. e-mail: rclose@richardclose.info web: http://globallearningframework.ning.com . Abstract: “While traditional classrooms wade through indexed text books chapter by chapter in order to pass Friday’s test, […]
