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 […]
International Day of Democracy: The Contribution of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114305025″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Linda Hartling Director, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies; Cofounder, World Dignity University lhartling@humiliationstudies.org . Evelin Lindner Founding President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, affiliated with the University of Oslo, Norway, and Columbia University, NY, USA; Cofounder, World Dignity University e.g.lindner@psykologi.uio.no . Michael Britton Board Member, Human Dignity […]
Global Learning Academy: Wish List
Rubina Ali Chariperson at Global Learning Academy globallearning999@gmail.com / www.globallearningacademy.org . Lets see where it all began. I was living in USA(25 years) with my daughter and son and had no clue on how tough life is in the third world. As I went through the divorce and lost the luxury of having family, events, […]
World Refugee Day: the Hidden Truth of Refugees
World Refugee Day: The Hidden Truth of Refugees from Global Education Magazine on Vimeo. Balata Camp is the largest refugee camp in the West Bank The area is 0.25 km2. The population registered by the UNRWA are 26,500 but the real number in the camp are 28,000. The unemployment rate in Balata camp is […]
Los refugiados también existen en las Américas
Francesca Fontanini Oficial regional de información pública de ACNUR Américas fontanin@unhcr.org . Cuando hablamos de los refugiados y desplazados que hay en el mundo, 43 millones, la primera imagen que viene a nuestra mente es un campamento en África. Pero no tenemos que olvidar que, de esta cifra, hay más de 400,000 personas refugiadas con […]
Global Education Magazine: International Day of Democracy (September 15th, 2013)
Download the magazine here Cultural Democracy is a dynamic process which works to create awareness and responsibility with people in the free world. Considering the challenges of globalization, this edition of Global Education Magazine intends to reflect on the supranational level actions that promote political unity and equal rights, respecting all diversity and minorities. Karibu! The word democracy comes […]
La tecnología de consumo vs Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio: ¿De qué está hecho tú móvil?
Olga Moreno Fernández Departamento de Educación y Psicología Social, Universidad Pablo de Olavide ommorfer@upo.es . Clara Beatriz Pascual Hernández Departamento de Educación y Psicología Social, Universidad Pablo de Olavide clarapascual@capitannadie.com . Resumen: Acercar los Objetivos de Milenio a las aulas universitarias es un proyecto promovido desde la Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo y el Centro de Cooperación […]
Building Resilience Through the Child-to-Child Approach
Celine Woznica Director of Child-to-Child/Americas, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health e-mail: nanamericas@gmail.com web: www.child-to-child.org . Abstract: Resilience in children is the ability to recover from traumatic experiences and develop the skills to overcome future challenges. In dealing with adversities, children draw from personal strengths often divided into external (I have), internal (I am), […]
To Support Democratic Transformation and Good Governance Interventions
Huwayda Mohamed Ibrahim Projects designer and developer at Consultancy office at Sudan huwayda1@hotmail.com . The signed peace agreement for Darfur is conducive environment for participation of all segments of the community to build the peace process which intend need strengthening of civil society and to empower women to establish peace forums, rebuild confidence, and give […]
Brief on UDYAMA
Pradeep Mohapatra Secretary & Team Leader at UDYAMA (India) e-mail: udyama.pradeep@gmail.com website: http://www.udyama.org/ . Since last one and half decades, UDYAMA has demonstrated few evidence based initiatives working directly with community and engaging partner NGOs in coastal, tribal areas and carved out good learning on community resilience process. Learning–Linking- Livelihoods is the core areas of UDYAMA […]
