Raising Awareness of Global Education Amongst Young People

Okafor Akachukwu International Development Consultant at Nonprofit Organization Management in Nigeria. e-mail:akachukwu_okafor@yahoo.com web: www.akachukwu.tumblr.com Abstract: Global education is a transformative learning process that is very essential in creating and promoting mutual understanding across racial, cultural, religious, political and geographical divides. Young people as agents of change have a lot of responsibility in fostering global […]

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Peacebuilding and Trauma Trasformation. Is sustainable peacebuilding possible without addressing and transforming trauma?

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Cvijeta Novakovic Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding Specialist in Bosnia and Herzegovina cvijeta.2012@gmail.com Abstract: The role of past in lives of people is significant: according to an ancient philosophy, people walk in front of the past, while the unknown future stays behind of them. Hard experiences of conflict, war and trauma have inevitable and negative impact […]

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What is global education about?

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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 […]

Peace and Conflict Resolution. Democratic Republic of Congo

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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 […]

ELSA – take your future in your own hands!

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By Natalia Buczek Young Volunteer at ELSA nataliabuczek@wp.pl European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organization run by and for students. ELSA was founded in 1981 in Vienna by representative from Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany. The organization was created to strengthen international relations and a better understanding in that time, which was difficult on political and legal […]

Carta de presentación de ACNUR. Por Francesca Fontanini.

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Los últimos años han sido marcados por una sucesión interminable de conflictos y crisis humanitarias, en medio de incertidumbres, sociales, políticas y económicas. Una de las primeras consecuencias de tal escenario es el incremento de las personas forzadas a desplazarse y buscar protección en otros países. La combinación de estos factores ha reducido el “espacio […]

La Educación como un Derecho. Por Jorge Sequeira.

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Hace más de cuarenta años, las naciones de la tierra afirmaron en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos que “toda persona tiene derecho a la educación”. Sin embargo, pese a los esfuerzos realizados para asegurar el derecho a una educación de calidad para todos, persisten grandes desafíos. La educación es un derecho humano fundamental, esencial para […]

2013: International Year of Water Cooperation

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The side event, organized in the framework of the “UN-Water Day” at Rio+20, aims at raising awareness about the UN IYWC and the opportunities that this year-long event will bring along for Member States and other stakeholders. In December 2010 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared the year 2013 as the United Nations International […]

2013: Año Internacional de la Quinua (AIQ)

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En la resolución (A/RES/66/221) la Asamblea General designó el 2013 «Año Internacional de la Quinua», en reconocimiento a los pueblos andinos que han mantenido, controlado, protegido y preservado la quinua como alimento para generaciones presentes y futuras gracias a sus conocimientos tradicionales y prácticas de vida en armonía con la madre tierra y la naturaleza. […]

El valor de la Educación Global como motor de cambio para erradicar la pobreza y alcanzar un Desarrollo Sostenible

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El Sr. Sha Zukang, Secretario-General de Rio+20, felicitando a Javier Collado El Presidente de la ONGD Educar para Vivir (España), Javier Collado, fue invitado por las Naciones Unidas para participar en las Conferencias Internacionales sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, denominadas Rio+20, tras haber presentado la propuesta de reforma educativa a nivel mundial: “El valor de la Educación Global como motor […]