Human Rights and Democracy: A Framework for Peace Education

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Human Rights and Democracy A Framework for Peace
Education

• Dale Snauwaert
• Center for Nonviolence and Democratic Education
• The University of Toledo

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Education Driven by Social Purpose

• Education is an intentional, purposeful activity
• Situated within and driven by Social Purpose and
  in turn social values
• Democracy as an ethical framework

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Democracy defined

• A socio-political system of rights and duties and
  an ethical way of life consistent with the
  imperatives of human dignity

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Ethical Framework

• Basic Values
• Basic Attitudes
• Principles
• Moral Capacities

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Basic Value of Democracy, Rights and Peace

• Intrinsic value of life
• Equal inherent dignity

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Basic Moral Attitude

• Respect and Care for Persons,
• Respect and Care for Life

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Principles Rights and Duties

• A way of expressing
• Standing/Membership
• Obligation to recognize and respond to humanity
• Justified Demands
• Protections

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Democratic Logic of Equality Kinds of Rights

• Political Equality civil and political rights
• Social Equality Social and Economic Rights
• Legal Equality Equal Protection
• Cultural Equality Cultural Recognition
• Environmental Equality Right to safe and
  sustainable environment

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Correlative Duties

• Rights entail Duties -- Inseparable
• Duties to
• Aid
• Protect
• Avoid depriving
• Instantiates Respect and Care for Persons

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Moral Capacities

• Critical Understanding
• Self-Reflection/Being Peace
• Practical Reason
• Justification
• Falsification
• Impartiality
• Multi-perspective taking
• Critical analysis
• Empathy and Compassion
• Holistic Consciousness
• Presence/Wide-Awakeness

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Peace

• Just Peace
• A moral and political community that secures the
  rights of all and an ethical way of life in
  community
• Convergence of Democracy, Rights and Peace

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Threats Systems of domination and oppression
that violate human dignity

• Militarism
• Patriarchy
• Racism
• Ethno-centrism
• Unregulated Capitalism
• Indoctrination

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Democratic Peace Education

• Ideal Liberation
• educare
• Liberation of the moral capacities

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Democratic Peace Pedagogy

• Shift to a Learning Paradigm
• Democratic community of learning
• Problem-posing
• Inquiry-based
• Dialogical
• Participatory
• Diversity
• Methods of critical self-examination
• Methods of wide-awakeness