GlobaliseThis was started in 2009 by 5 University for Peace students as a forum to collect, analyze, and use New Media to participate in the “globalization/anti-globalization” dialogue. The dialogue is composed of disparate movements searching, sharing, connecting in cyberspace, and networked by a common, transnational message: conflict and injustice are the results of failing to govern by values other than profit making.
Globalization of corporate capitalism and neoliberalism reproduce unequal relationships between nations, governments, peoples and environments, worsening poverty, inequity, misery and social marginalization. Our objective is to shape the globalization dialogue by using credible, alternative information to facilitate analysis and discussion of globalization and anti-globalization actions throughout the world. From an honest presentation of the facts we expect a common message to emerge about the role human rights and environmental protections have in peace and justice. We demand you: Globalise this!
We are Anna, Jacob, Katelyn, Maria-Victoria, and Ryan, M.A. candidates at the UN-Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. This blog is part of our final project for the class “The Role of the Media in Conflict-Prevention and Peacebuilding.”
October 6, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I guess I’m naive, but isn’t our ability to vote the way we make our voices heard? Isn’t a zeal to spread democracy or some form of populist government to those who lack it the way we will become truly globalized? To me, it is never clear what the protestors are FOR — I know what they’re against, but do they propose viable solutions to the problems they perceive? It appears to me that the media (at least in the US) greatly overstates the power of the protests (and crowds in general), so I’m not sure this “global movement” is anything at all. Every intelligent young person’s job description includes “shaking things up and making us oldies (but goodies) think.” This has been the way of the world for generations. The young people who truly want to make changes for the better grow up and follow up their activist beginnings with loving, effective, mutual work, whether locally, nationally, or internationally. My brain hurts…I’m going back to watching Wheel of Fortune. xoxoxo BESOS A TODOS