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 […]
Peacebuilding and Trauma Trasformation. Is sustainable peacebuilding possible without addressing and transforming trauma?
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 […]
El agua: tema central para la seguridad alimentaria
Por Gabriela Grau, Senior Network Officer para Latinoamérica, GWP y Fabiola Tábora, Secretaria Ejecutiva, GWP Centroamérica www.gwp.org …para el 2050 el mundo contará con 9 billones de personas que requerirán un incremento del 70% en la producción mundial de alimentos. En la actualidad se viene enfrentando una serie de retos globales que es necesario atender […]
ELSA – take your future in your own hands!
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 […]
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 […]
La Educación como un Derecho. Por Jorge Sequeira.
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 […]
Creating an Everyone a Changemaker World
We are living at an incredible moment in history, where all of the existing sectors of society are redefining themselves. It started with the private sector. Businesses let loose the radical idea: if you have a new idea and you make it work, we’ll make you rich and respected. Then we will copy you. This revolutionary […]
2013: International Year of Water Cooperation
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 […]
Entrevista sobre o Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia (Brasil)
Adriana Lima Balaguer Terapeuta ocupacional pela FBDC. Mestre em psicologia pela UFBA albalaguerl@hotmail.com . Javier Collado Ruano: Como surgiu a idéia de conhecer o MSTB e quantas Ocupações você pesquisou? Adriana Balaguer: A idéia surgiu a partir da minha pesquisa de mestrado, realizadas na UFBA, em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento. Há uma demanda, […]
Global Education Magazine: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th, 2012)
Download the magazine here This edition is dedicated to the memory of the 15 million people who die every year of hunger, treatable diseases, and other conditions related to poverty on our planet. People who publish items on this magazine take their lives seriously. Global Education Magazine is inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that […]
