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Multilingual Education in Russia: Balashov and Saratov

This study compares attitudes towards foreign language study among students specializing in organizational management in economic programes in representative towns and cities in Russia with reference to socio-economic indictors.

Mexico’s “War on Drugs”: A Successful Strategy?

Researcher Pamela Huerta offers a nuanced review of Mexico’s anti-drug policy and untangles some of the many socio-economic, political, and institutional factors that have led to heightened levels of violence in the country. As the author demonstrates, the Mexican case sheds light on the larger questions of violence in the region and around the world, especially as they relate to highly profitable and illegal economic activities.

Manifestation of Inherent Human Elements in Creating Values for Sustainable Peace

Founder and Editor of Peace Education: an International Journal, Dr. Surya Nath Prasad offers an empassioned perspective on conflict and violence within the framework of “valuelessness” resulting from “widespread miseducation for a priveleged few and non-education” for many. Prasad argues for the creation of values for sustainable peace and nonviolence through a holistic approach incorporating body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit as essential, inherent human elements.

Lost in Assimilation: The Tragedy of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

The field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which captures the worldviews and ways of living of indigenous communities in relation to their environments, has become a glamorous concept in the lexicon of development theorists. The paper seeks to critically engage with the possibility and challenges of ‘successful integration of indigenous knowledge and ethics into modern science and culture’, highlighting two challenges in particular: the itemization and alienation of beliefs and understandings to fit within a functional and mechanistic worldview (a tragedy of parts), and the broader negative consequences of distorting cultural epistemologies of profound wisdom and relevance to the survival of our species (a tragedy of the whole).

Kony2012 and the legacy of the Rwandan Genocide

Atkilt Geleta compares and contrasts the ways in which African conflicts have been treated by “the international community”, with a special emphasis on the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the Kony2012 campaign. Despite their differences, Geleta argues that there are significant, and unsettling, similarities.

Kenya’s New Constitution

In the following article, John Onyando comments on the new constitution in Kenya. He argues, “Overwhelming endorsement for the new constitution could be a major turning point. But only if an ambitious long-term process made by the people for the people can protect itself from sectarianisms old and new.”

Jerarquía de Necesidades Sociales en América Latina

Diego Corral examina la jerarquía de necesidades sociales en el contexto de América Latina, proponiendo una re-conceptualización de esa jerarquía para profundizar la democracia y disminuir la dependencia foránea a través de la justicia socioeconómica y la auto-actualización de las sociedades latinoamericanas.

Islam and its seeming incompatibility with the West

The wave of largely non-violent, popular movements that swept across large portions of the Arab world in early 2011 to demand government accountability, social responsiveness, women’s rights, and other social reforms, is not necessarily incompatible with liberal democracy — even if it is firmly based in political Islam.