Past Projects

GEA's "Educating for Global Citizenship Program", initiated in 1997, seeks to meet the educational needs of the emerging global community by offering teachers, youth leaders, community organizers, health-care professionals, leadership teams, and others a way to comprehend and respond to the critical and creative task of education for the 21st century. In 1999-2001, GEA offered Education for Global Citizenship training in 140 educational, health and research institutions and spirituality centers from Oregon to Louisiana and in the Philippines and South Africa. 

What's New?

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP GUIDEBOOK
Global Education Associates and the World Order Models Project are collaborating to produce a Guidebook to Global Citizenship, for which we invite your input. The project seeks to:

1. Communicate in a fresh way a vision of the earth community and values of ecological balance, peace, social justice, economic well-being, and cultural integrity that are characteristic of GEA’s and WOMP’s global citizenship efforts

2. Provide individual readers and global citizenship program groups some basic global information/analysis, within a new conceptual framework of interconnectedness

3. Nurture participants’ spiritual potential and creativity to foster caring communities, networks, and policies for an interdependent world

4. Help persons advocate, with peers and with public officials, a positive vision and basic principles for responsible U.S. foreign behavior in a time of rapid globalization requiring constructive multilateral action

5. Appeal in design and content to young as well as mature adults who have a readiness to become active global citizens, and advocates for an alternative peace-with-justice approach to world order

The Guide will be planned, drafted and written through June 2004 under the coordination of Patricia Mische with the Board of Global Education Associates, and the cooperation of Saul Mendlovitz and Lester Ruiz of the World Order Models Project. Publication and dissemination is planned for late 2004.

Input is being sought via e-mail from networks around the world. The Guide will be a basic resource for community life, and peace, justice, and environmental networks who want to enable people to think, feel and act as global citizens with enough knowledge and ethical focus to help create a just, sustainable and peaceful world.

Please use the guideline questions below and send your input by e-mail to info@g-e-a.org.

INQUIRY FRAMEWORK:
CORE QUESTIONS forGLOBAL CITIZENSHIP GUIDEBOOK

I. What Does it Mean to Be a Global Citizen? What is your personal vision of the meaning of citizenship? Of global citizenship? Is earth citizenship a better concept? (why/why not?) What views and definitions have others held in different times and different cultures? What is the intellectual history of the concept of global or earth citizenship? Can you identify some meaningful concepts and insights from different cultures and social sectors? Can you identify some images, authors, and sources that you have found particularly insightful?

II. What are some core values and/or criteria for true and effective global or earth citizenship? How will we know when we are seeing a true global citizen? Can you identify some people who you consider to have been true global citizens?

III. What are some obstacles to meaningful development of global citizenship? (Political? Economic? Cultural? Religious? Education? Local, National and Global Structures? Other?) What are some aids?

IV. Can you identify some movements and organizations that have identified themselves as global citizens or working toward global citizenship? In past history? Current? What strategies were used? How effective have they been? How might they have done better? What lessons can we learn from the experience of such groups to date?

V. To what extent should we identify ourselves as global citizens in a public fashion?

VI. How do/can people committed to global citizenship sustain their commitment over time? How can they develop and maintain a sense of personal empowerment and social agency?

VII. What practical suggestions do you have for the audience, content, format, and promotion of the Guide to Global Citizenship?

Send responses to GEA at: info@g-e-a.org