Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) written just after the end of the destructive Second World War states that: “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of
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Featured Image: Photo by Yannis H on Unsplash. When the Convention on the Rights of the Child was unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989; governments took a major step forward in establishing a framework of world law to protect
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Vaclav Havel on Wenceslas Square on November 17, 2009. By Ben Skála, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons. “He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his
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Featured Image Photo by Egor Myznik. Unsplash. After late night negotiations; the every-five-year Review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (The NPT Review) failed to reach a consensus on a final statement this past Friday. The terms of the Review
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Featured Image: Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and President of the UN General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann in New York (2009). Estonian Foreign Ministry, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. In October 2008; the then President of the United Nations General Assembly; Father Miguel d’Escoto
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Featured Image: Prof. Dr. Alfred de Zayas. By Anonym (ein Gefälligkeitsfoto für Prof. Alfred de Zayas), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Alfred de Zayas, a long-time member of the U.N. human rights secretariat having started in 1980; was elected by
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Featured Image: Photo by sammisreachers in Pixabay. On 30 July; there should be a world-wide concerted effort against trafficking in persons. The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/68/192 in 2012; set out 30 July as a day to review and reaffirm
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Featured Image: This symbolically represents an holistic approach to peacebuilding. By Consensusafp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. John W. McDonald with Noa Zanolli. The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding: Stories and Lessons. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008, 341pp.) This
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Featured Image: Photo by Ilja Nedilko on Unsplash. “The struggle against the nuclear weapon cult and threats it poses to international peace, security and development, like all struggles against belief systems which have outlived their times, is going to be long and arduous” K.
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The Education currently, there is growing attention both in scholarly and popular writing with the process of globalization.
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