Excellent ideas, Gunther. Thank you for sharing. I would like to collaborate with you since the main goal in my being online is for peaceful coexistence.
Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C15 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Günther Osswald < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
