Hi all, in consideration of the never ending spiral of violence and counter violence on our planet I would like to see WikiEducator taking up responsibility. As educator by profession and threefold father I have leaned that violent behavior often arises from ignorance of non-violent strategies to reach ones aims. We could show our children, our students and our colleagues how to become aware of their own true needs and communicate them in an authentic way, and to be open to hear the needs of the other. And how to bargain until a mutual accordance is reached.
I want to propose to the WikiEducator community to value highly projects related to non-violent communication and behavior. I can warmly recommend to read Marshall B Rosenberg web page for this: www.cnvc.org And, as behavior is only at the top of the iceberg, we could even go deeper and look for the factors of an education for peace in general. “The world is in agony.” With these painful words begins the “Declaration Toward a Global Ethic” by the “Parliament of the Worlds Religions” of Sept. 4, 1993. http://www.weltethos.org/pdf_decl/Decl_english.pdf The declaration, worked out by thousands of deputies of all religions, continues: “Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimize violent and bloody conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. We are filled with disgust.” (p. 4) It comes up with 4 simple basic guidelines for a global ethic: 1. non-violence and respect for life 2. solidarity and a just economic order 3. tolerance and a life of truthfulness 4. equal rights and partnership between men and women What if we here in WikiEd worked out a wiki ethic in this spirit? We then could not only exclude authors that go against it, but much better, give attention to projects that try to implement these values. Best regards from cold and snowy Bavaria, Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
