liberating thoughts for reflexive minds
With the New Humanism Project, we were invited to attend a gathering at the Peace Palace in The Hague on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Earth Charter.
In the words of the organisers:
In the Earth Charter Preamble we read: “We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.”… Read more > >
We were invited to contribute an article on the New Humanism project to the new issue of the FAIR Magazine for Art & Architecture (FAIR Magazin für Kunst & Architektur) , this one on the theme of ‘Utopias versus Dystopias’.
FAIR Magazine is published in printed form only.… Read more > >
We co-organised a symposium ‘Imagining Futures for a New Humanism’ together with the Robert Boyle Foundation at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Download the programme here, and check the event website www.newhumanism24.com.
Can we try to make the world a better place for all?… Read more > >
The pamphlet ‘Verbeter de wereld. Begin bij het onderwijs’ (in Dutch) was published today, and marks the start of a dialogue organised in cooperation with the news website APACHE. The local dialogue in Dutch will soon be extended with new international events.… Read more > >
What are the intellectual and ethical competences children need to develop in order to become (self)reflexive, caring and tolerant cosmopolitans or ‘citizens of the world’?
What kind of education could support and guide them in that becoming while they are exploring their own path of life?… Read more > >
Centerpoint Now is a publication of the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN). The new issue, entitled ‘Are We There Yet?’, is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the United Nations with articles on older and new challenges for global governance (the last obviously including the virus pandemic).… Read more > >
We contributed a chapter to the book “Bio#Futures – Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy” published by Springer. While other contributions explore sustainable development methodologies and practical applications, we were invited to provide an ethical-philosophical framework applicable to the bioeconomy.
See more info and purchase options here: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649685… Read more > >
Health.Holism.Cosmopolitanism
– building ethical competence for human health –
This text is a contribution for the next issue of the magazine Centerpoint Now published by the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (issue to be published later this year)
Health is the basic human capacity that makes everything else in life possible.… Read more > >
We joined the Network of the Paris Committee on Capacity Building, a voluntary association of interested stakeholders engaged in climate-related capacity-building, an essential condition for current and future climate change resilience, as specified in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.… Read more > >
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2-virus has now lead to a global pandemic, followed by a worldwide mobilization to control the spread of the virus and courageous attempts to care for the vulnerable and the already affected. Of course, the current crisis needs a prompt practical and globally coordinated reaction, but let us use this case to also go into some deeper thinking about the world we live in and in which the current crisis became possible.… Read more > >