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The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: A fascinating collection of Einstein's observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius's intellect. In the aftermath of the First World War, Albert Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen about the growing anti-Semitism and nationalism of his country, and his myriad opinions about the current affairs...
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To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years, since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and high school students. Large numbers of those students have faithfully kept in touch with McCarthy, often with handwritten letters, and he has answered them with the same seriousness he brought to...
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La paz es una idea, un concepto abstracto, que debe aterrizarse en realidades concretas. Y construir la paz supone pasar de un estado inicial, que puede ser o no ser de conflicto, a un segundo momento en el que las personas han aprendido a conocerse, relacionarse, encontrarse y a convivir.
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This book is an in-depth examination of education and media under occupation. The contributors to this volume engage dialogue to explore these domains and their roles and functioning under occupation while keeping an eye toward resolution, using the on-going conflict between Palestine and Israel as the focus. The uniqueness of this collection is not limited to the willingness of its authors to investigate topics that have often been left out of the...
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El propósito de esta obra es hacer propuestas para restablecer el equilibrio social desde la práctica educativa, y así generar una nueva cultura de convivencia. Desde la educación se puede lograr un gran avance para desarmar los espíritus violentos y de odio, y advertir las ventajas de vivir en paz. Escenarios como el de la familia, la institución escolar, los medios de comunicación masiva y el ejercicio del poder del Estado en las instituciones...
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Después de los acuerdos de paz, y en medio de un contexto de posconflicto, la construcción de una cultura para la paz es uno de los mayores desafíos colectivos que se deben asumir desde los centros educativos para sustentar y orientar las acciones previstas en el posacuerdo. A través de la educación se pueden transformar nuevas formas de sociabilidad, basadas en procesos de justicia y respeto a los derechos humanos, la diversidad cultural y la...
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As the level of distrust and alienation between Jews and Palestinians has risen over the past fifteen years, the support for grassroots organizations' attempts to bring these two groups closer has stagnated. Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social change in Israeli society is still unknown. In Youth Encounter Programs in Israel,...
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Dear Hopeful Leader, We Can Do This!
Leaders across the globe are feeling frustrated and running ragged. Burnout is at an all-time high. Personal well-being is at an all-time low. Meanwhile, the social and cultural change we work to create in our systems and organizations seems ever-out-of-reach.
We know we have to let go of the old paradigm, but what exactly do we put in its place?
When Kawtar El Alaoui realized how deeply the old paradigms had...
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"How nine-year-olds solve the world's toughest problems. In John Hunter's classroom, students fearlessly set about tackling global problems--and discovering surprising solutions--by playing Hunter's groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids--from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well-funded and under-resourced--take on the roles of presidents, tribal leaders, diplomats, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations,...
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The Pentagon currently spends around $1.4 billion per year on recruiting and hundreds of millions annually on other marketing initiatives intended to convince the public to enlist-costly efforts to ensure a steady stream of new soldiers. The most important part of this effort is the Pentagon's decades-long drive to win over the teenage mind by establishing a beachhead in American high schools and colleges.
Breaking the War Habit provides an original...
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