New testimonial for ‘Defining Development’ – A new form of competition, the Humanitarian Competition.

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 28, 2010 under Articles, News | 3 Comments to Read

Against a global competition based on military, political or economic force, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi – a forward-thinking geographer, educational theorist and religious reformer, founder, in 1930, of the Soka Gakkai -  defined a new form of competition, what he termed the humanitarian competition.

Makiguchi saw this shift not as merely representing a change in the venue or form of competition, but a qualitative transformation, from a winner-takes-all style of competition, to one conducted within a consciously acknowledged framework of cooperation, what today might be called a “win-win” mode of competition.

This concept of Humanitarian Competition, introduced by Makiguchi about one century ago, has been deepened and developed nowadays by Daisaku Ikeda, the current President of Soka Gakkai, with its Peace Proposal to the United Nations (2009)

→ Read the Article - http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Humanitarian_Competition:_a_key_paradigm_for_the_twenty-first_century

→ Read about Development Aid – http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Defining_Development

by Wilma Massucco

Interview to the EU Ambassador to India published on the Wiki

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 21, 2010 under Interviews, News, Video | Be the First to Comment

We have published on the wiki the interview with Ms. Danièle Smadja, the EU Ambassador to India. → http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_to_Danièle_Smadja

In her interview she speaks about the areas of cooperation  between the EU and India by focusing on developmental aid and the Sarva Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The SSA is a Government of India project to ensure primary education to all its children, an effort to achieve the 2nd MDG, to which the EU has contributed over 200 million euros in the past years

→ View Ms. Danièle Smadja’s complete interview at http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_to_Danièle_Smadja

by Fausto Aarya De Santis

VIA per VIA: Italians, migrants and Institutions will work together – A Good Practice for the Project Manual

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 18, 2010 under News | 2 Comments to Read

The Eugad project has started identifying good practices in cooperation and development projects for the Manuals which are being drafted.

Wilma Massucco has identified one good practice which has been implemented by the Municipality of Modena -  the ‘Via per Via’ project – whose purpose is to stimulate the participation of citizens focusing on migrants and youth,  who don’t often stay out of the social life of the town, to become more involved in the management of the “res publica”.

→ Read more about the ‘Via per Via’ project

by Wilma Massucco