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Book Alliance for a Responsible and United World

Download or read book Alliance for a Responsible and United World written by Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind and published by . This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alliance for a Responsible and United World

Download or read book Alliance for a Responsible and United World written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virtues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonardo Boff
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 1621890775
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Virtues written by Leonardo Boff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtues are values underlying human practices. We are at the dawn of a new era, an era of global ethics requiring some core virtues. These core virtues are hospitality, co-living, respect, tolerance, and communality. Book 1 treats the virtue of hospitality that is a right and a duty of all, and which is still to be discovered and practiced unconditionally. Book 2 deals with the virtues of co-living, respect, and tolerance, which are important virtues if the peoples of the earth are to live together in peace in our common home, the planet Earth. Finally, Book 3 deals with the virtue of communality; this is a very important virtue because a large part of humanity experiences hunger and thirst, which is something scandalous in this day and age, and which demonstrates a lack of humanity, because we possess the technical means and political framework to resolve this situation. If these core virtues become a reality, they will transform human practices into something beneficial both to human beings and to the planet Earth, our common home.

Book Responsibility and Cultures of the World

Download or read book Responsibility and Cultures of the World written by Edith Sizoo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together eleven contributions by authors from all parts of the world who have examined the notion of responsibility in their respective countries. In the first part Edith Sizoo presents a comparative analysis of those texts which reflect a rich variety of worldviews and traditions: harmony with the earth and relational ethics in the Maori culture of New Zealand, juridical approach in France, responsibility in Confucian thinking in China, individualism in the face of collective duty in the United States, duty and responsibility on the shores of the Congo, responsibility in Arab Islamic culture, encountering the sense of responsibility in Germany... This book thus presents an intercultural vision of responsibility that is all the more interesting because the final texts are the outcome of an intense dialogue between the authors. This exchange enhanced a more explicit expression of their respective points of view, thus making these more accessible to people from other cultural backgrounds.

Book Opening to Omnilateralism

Download or read book Opening to Omnilateralism written by Wolfgang PAPE and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening to Omnilateralism After a century of western-inspired multi-lateralism, its much criticised 75-years old stronghold, the UN, needs a new narrative: omni-lateralism. The right vehicle is omnibus - for and by all -, firstly, to widen the way for input of more ideas and good practices of non-Western origin, and secondly, to include non-state actors as legitimate stakeholders in global governance. Some trends already signal an opening towards omnilateralism: enhancing global governance in the COP by adding Eastern understanding of cycles in nature to protect the environment (e.g. in circular economies) and a wider appreciation of ‘holism’ beyond the rather linear individualistic thinking of Western societies; also accountable groups of civil society - more trusted than officials driven by narrow national interest - increasingly enrich deliberations about climate change and other global problems that need global solutions. These require East-West and North-South cooperation as currently obvious in the urgent cross-border exchanges among experts to combat the pandemic and save lives and livelihood worldwide. Globalisation has elevated millions out of poverty. However, narrow-minded politicians still claim national ‘sovereignty’ and parochial interests against global solutions for the common good while the Westphalian ‘nation’ is becoming a historic aberration. Almost all governments nowadays claim democracy, but respect for its principles is falling. Democracy must adapt to each level of governance, from local, national, regional to global. More direct democracy may suit the directly informed local stage. The higher the stage and the wider the impact, the more expertise and responsibility with all stakeholders is needed to reach the common global good, i.e. omnilaterally.

Book Responsible Tourism

Download or read book Responsible Tourism written by Harold Goodwin and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible Tourism: Using tourism for sustainable development 2nd edition is about the globally vital necessity of realising sustainable tourism. It is a hugely important challenge to those who organise and sell travel and tourism, and those who consume it.

Book The Calling of Global Responsibility

Download or read book The Calling of Global Responsibility written by Ananta Kumar Giri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks and transforms the current discourse on globalization and global justice. It expands the idea of globalization from an economic or corporate context to mean humanization and planetary realizations — moving beyond the boundaries of nation-states and other human-made demarcations. The author challenges the notion of human primacy and makes a fervent call to reconfigure the paradigm of anthropocentrism. Through a careful study of movements for justice and inter-faith dialogue from across the world, the book makes a unique contribution to the emerging study of global responsibility. It also helps us overcome our current civilizational crises and cultivate a new civilization of planetary care and co-responsibility. As part of the Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought series, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law and society, especially social movements, political theory, and philosophy.

Book The Rise of the Global Left

Download or read book The Rise of the Global Left written by Boaventura De Sousa Santos and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change can be achieved only by taking a stand against neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption. However, since its inception in Porto Alegre in 2001, the World Social Forum has refused to adopt political positions on world events, preferring instead to provide a platform that facilitates cooperation between diverse social movements. Through a detailed analysis of the WSF's history and organization, he demonstrates that it has always been an inherently political organization, and argues that if the WSF is able to realise its potential as an institution for a new form of politics, it will become a global power to be reckoned with in the 21st century.

Book On Alliance Responsibility

Download or read book On Alliance Responsibility written by George Pratt Shultz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dignity and Human Rights

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  • Author : Adalid Contreras Baspineiro
  • Publisher : Intersentia nv
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9050952194
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Dignity and Human Rights written by Adalid Contreras Baspineiro and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2002 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECTION I: INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT

Book Brave New Seeds

Download or read book Brave New Seeds written by Robert Ali Brac de la Perrire and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers around the world are being pressured by half a dozen giant corporations to grow genetically engineered crops. What are the possible downsides for them, particularly for those hundreds of millions of farmers living in developing countries? On their environment? On their health? On their independence? On their traditional export crops? On their access to the marketplaces of their own countries? This important book comes out of a dialogue between farmers' representatives and experts. The result is a clear statement of principles and urgently needed measures which should guide governments and communities in bringing this profit-motivated deployment of scientific power under democratic control.

Book Knowledge Policy

Download or read book Knowledge Policy written by Greg Hearn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. This book explains what we actually mean by the term 'knowledge'.

Book World Alliance News Letter

Download or read book World Alliance News Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Man s World

Download or read book A Man s World written by Bob Pease and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men face common issues, but are experiencing them all over the world in very different contexts and are coming up with different priorities and strategies to address them. This new series provides a vehicle for understanding this diversity.

Book Ngecha

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  • Author : Carolyn P. Edwards
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803248090
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Ngecha written by Carolyn P. Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.

Book Modernizing the United Nations System

Download or read book Modernizing the United Nations System written by John E. Trent and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contends that civil society must mobilize its capacities to bring a new will to national and international politics and oblige governments to act. It starts by demonstrating the need for institutional change at the UN and then shows how, both in the past and the present, leading individuals and nongovernmental organizations, using their knowledge base and their organizational networks, have lead the fight for international organizations. After a summary of major UN reform proposals over the years, the book concludes by identifying leading global “reformers” and elaborating a detailed plan for a global reform movement to spearhead the modernization of the UN system.

Book Utopia and Survival

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  • Author : Gustavo Lo Presti
  • Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
  • Release : 2006-11
  • ISBN : 9780533151455
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Utopia and Survival written by Gustavo Lo Presti and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia and Survivalis one man's endeavor to look deeper into the global problems we see today, and help us understand the necessity for change. From environmental pollution to overpopulation to poverty and terrorism, the U.S. is treading a dangerous path. Recognition of the flaws in the current system is the starting point for progress. The author presents a cogent argument for a cultural, political, economic, social, and psychological revolution towards a new and pragmatic utopia in the twenty first century.