Our Common Future – Educating the Citizens of the World

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 5, 2010 under Articles, News | Read the First Comment

Loyalty to national governments and to more local identities is not seen in contrast but, on the opposite, as necessary correlation, of a wider loyalty to the planet, both are the two sides of the same love of humanity as a whole. Preservation of cultural diversity is seen possible only as far as there is a global effort to generate synergies amongst the different local identities that contrast uniformity that is now being imposed as a result of politically ungoverned economic globalization.
This new emerging vision of “world citizenship” encompasses the principles of social and economic justice, both within and between nations; non-adversarial decision making at all levels of society; equality of the sexes; racial, ethnic, national and religious harmony; and the willingness to sacrifice for the common good.

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Quotation from Daisaku Ikeda

by Stefano De Santis

World Citizenship – Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on April 12, 2010 under Interviews, News, Video | Be the First to Comment

“I’m not aware of what it means. There is certainly a concept that we are a global community. There is a concept that each citizen much conduct himself in a manner in which his country is seen as a country to be a good global citizen. But in my view if you don’t have global taxation you don’t have global citizenship. So the argument that there is global citizenship is an exaggerated claim. You can only be citizen of one government, so if you ever had global citizenship then everybody would be a citizen… the question is whether he would be a good citizen or a bad citizen.
Ultimately individuals are citizens of the country they belong to. There may be global values, universal values but each citizen must operate in the confines of the country he or she is a citizen of.”

by Fausto Aarya De Santis