Inequalities and the Increased Risk of Political Violence
October 12, 2021
9am – 2.30pm
Virtual Event
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Reflection: The Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere?
Reflection: “The Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere”
Proud Beginnings
In many ways, the new world’s first free country was not the United States, where much of the population was enslaved. The first free country was Haiti, roughly the size of Maryland and located in the Caribbean, at its peak Haiti was the most prosperous colony in the world which enabled France, and other Western nations, to acquire wealth at the expense of its own development. Continue reading
Insights: Prof. Barbara Finkelstein on The Rise of Two New Age Cosmopolitans: 1979-2012
A first attempt in gleaning some of the insights shared during the afternoon talks of the conference on Children and Youth in an Interconnected World, presenting a broad range of distinguished speakers, all talking about the role of children and youth in this fast-changing world.
The Rise of Two New Age Cosmopolitans: 1979-2012
Emerita Professor Barbara Finkelstein gives an inspiration talk about the changes we are facing today. She asks herself why we are teaching children this cliche-lesson “Stranger Danger” – so that we learn to fear everyone that looks different? It is complicated. How can we conceive of a diverse world if we take this ‘stranger-danger’ as the basic premise? So, she says, she is not going to take this as a starting point to look at children in a changing interconnected world. Continue reading