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Sustainable global security can only be achieved when education is made a priority by states and their institutions. When properly realized, education can be a global asset to fight poverty, inequality, insecurity, and disease. This book offers an innovative new philosophy in which cultural, religious, and ideological diversity in education throughout the world is encouraged and respected. The author advocates that whenever "the other" is discussed, maximum sensitivity, respect, and tolerance must be exercised by all to prevent any possible exclusion or alienation. The author also argues that there are all kinds of moral truths that see the world from different perspectives and none of them have to necessarily be more right than the other. This book provides an alternative approach to education and outlines the ingredients that any educational system must include in order to ensure a well-educated, tolerant, and peaceful world.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1. Overview of the Topic
2. Overview of the Book
3. Global Education Octagon
4. Theoretical Foundation of the Book
2 Empowerment and Development
1. Personal: Analytical Skills and Critical Thinking, Understanding
One's Environment, Working Against Ignorance and Intolerance
2. Community: Enhancing Community Capabilities, Allowing Individuals
to Fulfill Their Potential in the Global Arena
3. Global: Enhancing Global Equity, Fostering a Sense of Social
Mobility in the Global Arena
3 Global Knowledge of Histories and Cultures
1. Understanding Global Poverty and Non-inclusion: Fostering More
Consolidated Efforts Toward Establishing Equality
2. Understanding Others' Fears and Grievances: Realizing How
Global Illiteracy is a Major Security Threat
3. Understanding Global Interconnectedness: Importance of Globalized
Business and Trade
4 Cultural Respect and Understanding
1. Educating Against Clashes of Cultures
2. Providing Tools to Resolve Conflicts Through Understanding:
Working Around Conflicts
3. Acknowledgement That Culture is Part of One's Identity: Personalization
of Hostilities
5 Communication, Exchange, and Exposure
1. Fostering Language Development, Allowing Closer Interpersonal Contact
and Cultural Investment
2. Exchange of Students and Young Professionals: Direct Exposure
to World Opinion and Differences in Human Behavior, Interpretation,
and Understanding
3. Delocalization, Decentralization, and Understanding the Potential
Global Population Resource: "Brain Exchange"
6 Global Citizenry Through Responsible Media and Responsible Political Statements
1. Promoting Alternative News Sources For a Wider Range of Information
2. Fostering Government Accountability Through Community Knowledge:
The Power of Community Opinion (Many) To Shape Government (Few) and
to Hold It Accountable for Its Actions
3. Learning the Effects of Interconnectedness on Regional Statements
and Regional Discussions
7 Global Values and Equality
1. Global Equality and Values: Learning Global Values in a Global
World, Promoting Positive Diversity
2. Community Equality and Values: Educating People on Human,
Women's, and Children's Rights, Promoting Fairness
3. Personal Values: Tolerance, Empathy, Peace, and Harmony
8 Abuse of Knowledge
1. Arrogance, Overconfidence vs. Self-confidence
2. Using Knowledge and Learning to Indoctrinate People Toward
Fear and Hate
3. Selective Teaching
9 Other Truths and Views
1. Sensitivity, Cultural Awareness, Anti-discrimination Through Understanding,
Respect and Knowledge of Differences of Opinion and Modi Operandi ,
i.e., Multiple Realities
2. Humility Instead of Thinking That "You know best" and "Your
way is the right way"
3. Education, Ideology, and Politics
10 Conclusion
1. Policy Recommendations
2. Final Observations
Endorsement
"This is a compelling and analytically acute report which includes a passionate advocacy for the multiple ways in which global education can strengthen and improve transnational security."
Dr. Roland Dannreuther, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh