Education for Urban Renewal toward Social and Ecological Justice: Peace Education in an Era of Globalization

Jul 26, 2015 - Aug 2, 2015 | International Institute on Peace Education and the University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
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Peace education has an important role to play in addressing issues of urban decline and the interconnected dilemmas of poverty, violence, health, and environmental degradation in an era of unprecedented economic globalization. The IIPE provides a constructive process model and interactive space through which these issues will be explored and for the identification and development of strategies and methods to address them.

Addressing the decline of urban environments and the associated and resulting forms of injustice and violence requires a holistic and comprehensive strategy. The causes of such decline range from the local to the global. The negative effects of globalized economies on local communities are well documented. In its relentless expansion, the global economy gobbles up finite natural resources at an unsustainable pace and threatens cultural and political diversity. Economic policies predominantly favor the interests of wealthy countries over those that are less developed (LDCs). The exploitation inherent in economic globalization pertains to not only LDCs but to segments of developed countries as well: the US cities of Detroit and Toledo are examples, wherein economic globalization has produced profound injustice. Both the economy and the injustice are global in the sense that they transcend national boundaries. Both economic prosperity and economic injustice, along with their concomitant forms of social injustice, are no longer distributed in national terms but are distributed in global-local terms—in terms of global winners and losers, regardless and independent of national location.

Anticipated participation fees for IIPE 2015 are $550 USD. Participation fees cover all onsite expenses including meals, lodging (double occupancy dormitory with air conditioning), local transportation and airport shuttles (if required).

The application deadline is April 15th, 2015.  For more information on scholarships and how to apply, go here.