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UNAOC-Education First Summer School: Call for applications
an article by United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
is collaborating with Education First (EF) in the
context of the first UNAOC-EF Summer School, which
will take place in Tarrytown, NY, USA, from 24 to 31
of August 2013.
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This UNAOC-EF Summer School will bring together
100 youth from all over the world for a week of
discussions on pressing global challenges within
the context of cultural and religious diversity.
Several skills-building workshops will be offered
with a view to strengthen participants’ ability on
topics such as peacebuilding, human rights,
advocacy, social entrepreneurship, etc.
This year marks the fourth UNAOC Summer School.
Youth (between 18 and 35) who are interested in
attending this year’s summer school can apply at www.UNAOCE
FSummerSchool.org on or before 31 May 2013. [Later note: the deadline has been extended to 15 June 2013.]
Selected participants will be provided with flight,
accommodation, meals and full event access.
We encourage you to share this message with your
networks of young people who might be interested by
the UNAOC-EF Summer School.
For more information about the UNAOC-EF Summer
School, please contact info@unao
cefsummerschool.org.
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) related to this article:
Is there a renewed movement of solidarity by the new generation?,
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LATEST READER COMMENT:
from Javier Collado Ruano, Director of Edition at Global Education Magazine, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity.
Solidarity is a trans-dimensional phenomenon that goes beyond the ontological essence of human nature. In fact, when we analyze the connections between the microcosm and the macrocosm, we perceive that human beings are not involved in chaos and arbitrariness, but belongs to the large network of interdependencies, complementarities and reciprocities that constitute life. The emergence of life on Earth, around 3,8 billion years ago, was a complex process of exceptional natural phenomena, inherent in all living systems. A process which is expressed through unlimited creativity: mutation, gene exchange, and symbiosis. From a cosmo-biological perspective, we can understand a new conceptual dimension of life, where all living beings share same basis of genetic code: the twenty amino-acids and four phosphatic bases. In fact, the diversity of living beings is caused by the combination of this cosmo-bio-genetic basis.
This trans-dimensional perspective has a deep ecological and spiritual sense for our worldview because the human evolutionary adventure is the latest stage of life on Earth. The modern human being is a vertebrate animal, mammal, belonging to the primates, which emerged 200,000 years ago. In recent centuries he has imposed its anthropocentric, industrial and capitalist vision to the detriment of Pachamama (and Indigenous goddess known as earth mother). We consume around 120% of the natural resources that Earth Mother regenerats annually. Our consumer behavior is immersed in a fatalistic dynamic with a destiny to climate change (deforestation, loss of biodiversity, ozone, etc.), and our own self-destruction as a species.
There is an urgent need to get beyond the cognitive fallacy that the mental structures of social Darwinism and capitalist postulates of the 19th century have historically constituted, because they only understand natural and social systems as warmongers and competitive processes whereby species diverge from each other. . ...more.
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