The fourth training of teachers in Canton Tuzla, within the project “A Global Ethic in a School: Integrating a Global Ethic into Educational Structures and Processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina”, had been held in Tuzla in hotel “Miris dunja 88” on Saturday and Sunday on October 10 and 11, 2015. A professional team of TPO Foundation Sarajevo – Alen Kristic, Monja Suta-Hibert and Ivana Krstanovic – presented a project of a global ethic to teachers of secondary schools and worked on the demonstration of double lessons. The training was attended by 22 teachers and pedagogues and an adviser for education of the Pedagogical Institute

of Tuzla Canton Izet Numanovic, who in the second day gave lecture on the theme “The Correspondence of the Relation Between Ethic and Educational System(s)”. The second day also joined the program director of TPO Foundation, Zilka Spahic-Siljak, and a professor from the Arizona State University, Marci Lee Schoenberg, who teaches the Bible through art, ethics, human sexual behavior, Judaism, child development, and the relationship of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. Marci Lee Schoenberg gave its contribution to the global ethic and delivered a lecture “Basic Principles of Ethics in Judaism”.

Alen Kristic introduced teachers with the concept of a global ethic, whose founder is a Catholic theologian Hans Küng, who by a global ethic means on a fundamental consensus on binding values, irrevocable standards, and personal attitudes. A Global Ethic concept remains on two pillars: 1. the principle of humanity: “Every human being must be treated humanely.”; 2. the ethic of reciprocity or the “Golden Rule”: “What you wish done to yourself, do to others!” – which should be the irrevocable,

unconditional norm for all areas of life, for families and communities, for races, nations, and religions. Moreover, there are four essential affirmations of a Global Ethic: commitment to a culture of non-violence and respect for life, commitment to a culture of solidarity and a just economic order, commitment to a culture of tolerance and a life of truthfulness, and commitment to a culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women.

Kristic gave lectures on the following themes: “A Global Ethic: Rules of the Globalized World”, “A Global Ethic – Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Philosophical Foundation”, “A Global Ethic in BiH – Contextualization and Application”, and “A Global Ethic Against Contemporary Issues”, as well as showed a short video “The Lie We Live”. Monja Suta-Hibert gave a lecture “A Global Ethic as a Pedagogical Project” and, together with Ivana Krstanovic, worked on the demonstration of four double lessons. After each double lesson, double conclusion and review of all the dimensions of the implementation of the particular double lesson was done. Moreover, Ivana Krstanovic presented the

Initiative ETOS (Initiative for Ethical, Transcultural and Educational Cooperation), which is actually a unique bh. platform whose activities and multimedia content would be in the service of the culture of education, learning and life, and which seeks to encourage integration of different educational materials and work methodologies in as many school subjects as possible, as well as acquisition and improving certain competences of teachers, pedagogues and social workers in the field of ethics, education about universal ethical values and interreligious competences through interactive workshops, the online platform “etos.ba” and media pedagogy.

The main aim of the project of a global ethic is to introduce teachers of secondary schools to a global ethic and qualify them that they mediate principles and values of a global ethic to their students in a professional and systematic way. The training was organized with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Tuzla

Canton, and the Pedagogical Institute of TuzlaCanton on the recommendation of the minister Mirsad Kunic. Participants received certificates for the successful completion of the two-day training – teaching unit “A Global Ethic in School”. This project is done with the partnership of The Global Ethic Foundation from Tübingen.