The Challenge to Globalization: Education for Tolerance, Democracy and Sustainable Development

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

New Delhi, January 20-22 2005

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library will be hosting a conference titled “The Challenge to Globalization: Education for Tolerance, Democracy and Sustainable Development" to be held in New Delhi on January 20-22, 2005. The aim is to bring together a number of academics from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a number of NGOs and representatives of international institutions to explore the role that formal and non-formal education can play in the debate on Education for Sustainable Development. It was been widely acknowledged that, following Rio (1992), international conferences focusing on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education For All (EFA) are falling short of their promises to eradicate illiteracy and poverty. Following the Thessaloniki Declaration on Environment and Society (www.mio-ecsde.org/old/Thess/TOCThess.htm) we consider that sustainability concerns a vast range of issues, such as health, poverty, tolerance, and democracy, calling for a paradigm shift in formal and non-formal education.

Please forward to friends and colleagues who might like to attend.

For further information please contact: Taisha Abraham, University of Delhi (taishaabraham@hotmail.com) or Anastasia Nikolopoulou, University of Cyprus (nicocy@cytanet.com.cy)