Human Rights - Law Resoure Centre - Australia - 18/08/2010
‘Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy’
with
Professor Alison Brysk (Mellichamp Chair of Global Governance at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy (OUP, 2009)), Professor Hilary Charlesworth (Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University) and Cynthia Banham (Diplomatic Correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald).
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Kofi A. Annan: The Myth of 'Never Again' - NYTimes.com
I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor - NYTimes.com, 17/06/2010, extracto/excerpt.-
Many countries in Europe and North America now require all high-school pupils to learn about the Holocaust. Why? Because of its historical importance, of course, but also because, in our increasingly diverse and globalized world, educators and policy-makers believe Holocaust education is a vital mechanism for teaching students to value democracy and human rights, and encouraging them to oppose racism and promote tolerance in their own societies.
That was certainly my assumption in 2005 when, as U.N. secretary general, I urged the General Assembly to pass a resolution on Holocaust Remembrance, which included a call for “measures to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.”
Indeed it might seem almost self-evident that Holocaust education would have that purpose, and that effect. Yet it is surprisingly hard to find education programs that have clearly succeeded in linking the history of the Holocaust with the prevention of ethnic conflict and genocide in today’s world.
Many countries in Europe and North America now require all high-school pupils to learn about the Holocaust. Why? Because of its historical importance, of course, but also because, in our increasingly diverse and globalized world, educators and policy-makers believe Holocaust education is a vital mechanism for teaching students to value democracy and human rights, and encouraging them to oppose racism and promote tolerance in their own societies.
That was certainly my assumption in 2005 when, as U.N. secretary general, I urged the General Assembly to pass a resolution on Holocaust Remembrance, which included a call for “measures to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.”
Indeed it might seem almost self-evident that Holocaust education would have that purpose, and that effect. Yet it is surprisingly hard to find education programs that have clearly succeeded in linking the history of the Holocaust with the prevention of ethnic conflict and genocide in today’s world.
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