Global Education Magazine is inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs) which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and UNHCR. An initiative launched by the teaching team that formulated the proposal most voted in the group “Sustainable Development for the Eradication of Poverty in Rio+20”.
Our goal is to disseminate...
Karibu! The word democracy comes from Greek “demos”, it means people and those who hold sovereign power. Thus, democracy is closely interrelated to metacognition of feelings and fundamental principles of others. For this reason, current global educational ...
Welcome to Global Education Magazine! A digital magazine inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs), which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and UNHCR. An initiative launched by the teaching team that formulated the proposal most voted in the group “Sustainable Development for the Eradication of Poverty in Rio+20”...
... world’s second super power, the day may come when Russia will be called for security cooperation to balance the regional power distribution.
Photo: The Voice of Russia http://voiceofrussia.com/2012_05_18/75132769/
2. Population dynamics and silver democracy (energy security; post-nuclear disaster management; social security and elderly welfare; education)
Japan is by any definition the most rapidly developing aging society in the world with its elderly population (age beyond 65 years old) is ...
... early 2000s, later Poland, Romania, and the ongoing woes about Hungary seem to have solidified the notion in European officialdom that it is an issue they have to resolve and indeed quickly - Hungary looks already lost.
The argument that issues of democracy should remain the member states’ competence and that any pressure from Brussels regarding the democratic structure is a violation of “national sovereignty” (used in Hungarian official communication, for example, in the undefined,...
An international conference was held in Moscow on 1 July to discuss “Democracy and Meritocracy: Are two principles compatible?”
The conference was sponsored by the Council for Foreign and Defence Policies (CDFP), European Council on Foreign Relations, German Marshall Fund, Centre for Liberal Strategies 9Sofia), and ...
Tolerance vis-à-vis natural aggressiveness
Fundamentals of classical democracy
Democracy is a polity when a group of people governs themselves, according to a trivial definition. Several points are important in this regard. First, there can be a host of polities that can be called democracy. There is no universal definition ...
...!” But, as it always happens, some people start the revolution while others take over (or ruin) it. The pioneers of the revolution were intellectuals but it was the broad masses which became its driving force. They did not need freedom, much less democracy which was unknown to them but justice, dignity and subsistence. That was what the new leaders-Islamists promised and the people followed them.
For decades, the Islamic fundamentalists, that is, advocates of a return to the roots would put forward ...
