Posted by Wilma Massucco on November 11, 2010 under Coherence for Development, News, Seminars | 
Due giornate evento info – formative per capire la crisi del nostro modello di sviluppo a confronto con i limiti del pianeta e le alternative.
Tra gli argomenti trattati:
- EPAs agreements e cambiamenti climatici: dai casi studio alle possibili azioni
- Ruoli e dinamiche negli accordi di libero scambio e commercio internazionale: quali tecniche per riproporli in percorsi educativi
- Ruolo dei media
- Wiki Lab – Comunicare l’economia come strumento di cambiamento
Il seminario è promosso da Amici dei Popoli Ong in collaborazione con FAIR con il contributo della Commissione Europea – Europe Aid. Read more of this article »
Posted by Wilma Massucco on October 25, 2010 under Interviews, Video |
Vandana Shiva , eco feminist, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse, advocates against the prevalent “patriarchal logic of exclusion”, claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner. She says: “Usually women are not in the main stream of society (as the men), and that’s the reason why they can think differently, and act differently. They act in defense of nature and in defense of society. Every day they have to clean the house, to care the babies, …. and this gives them a training in persistence”.
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Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 28, 2010 under Articles, News |
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
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