January 2017

THE SECOND MODULE OF TRAINING OF TRAINERS ''GLOBAL ETHIC AT SCHOOL''


The second module of Training of Trainers ''Global Ethic at School'' was marked by peace, gender equality and presentation and simulation of global ethic class appliance by training participants. Professor Nerzuk Ćurak from the Faculty of Political Sciences delivered a lecture on peacebuilding, its research which must never be unilateral but interdisciplinary, outsiders who participate in peacebuilding and that it is the sphere that will change the world. Professor Ćurak presented the pyramid of peace by John Lederach to the participants and showed who participates in peacebuliding and that local level, intellectuals and government are intertwined and if only one level fails in the whole process, everything falls apart. In the end he said it is very important to be optipessimist in the world of today and that the power of minorities' opinion is enormous and we should never give up on peace mission in the world which is filled with daily images of atrocities and violence.
Professor Zilka Spahić – Šiljak lectured on gender importance and how significant it is for us to become aware of the fact that our experience of ourselves is what our identity actually is including the gender one.

She recommended several gender analyses and authors such as Caroline Gilligan and others to the participants. Furthermore, she did and gave the instructions on gender text analysis from various registers that will be useful to the participants in the future and easier detection of gender (in)equality.
Alen Kristić spoke about gender equality from the perspective of three monotheistic religions and building of identity through the dialogue. He also said that gender studies are the matter of gender equal society and that its plurality should never be disregarded. He also reminded how prone we are to destruction of other people due to dogmas and that our opinions are subjects of given time and society.
Monja Šuta – Hibert was in charge of practical part and together with the participants presented the simulation of future global ethic workshops and its appliance, and participants presented their essays on various aspects of social justice, perspectives from religions they do not belong to etc. Simulation of workshops and presentations of essays were the crown of this three-day meeting which was concluded with the notion that there is always something good in people regardless of who we are.