Bulletin n. 2/2009
October 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Gibson Ian
    Good-Bye to All That? Eclipsing Empires, Eclipsing Ideologues and Emerging Models of Citizenry
    in Peace, Conflict and Development , Volume 14, Issue 14, July ,  2009 ,  36
    This paper examines evolving models of peace education and citizenship and tentatively posits these models as viable counters to violent practices shared by past empires, current movements within globalization (postmodern empire? see Shiva and Roy below) and ideologues that effuse violence. These models suggest possibilities of transforming negative perceptions of ‗the other‘ – negative perceptions that most commonly surface within culturally transferred views that encourage violence as a means to an end (the culture of violence), particularly those views observed in the mechanics of the British Empire in India, China and South Africa in the 19th Century and the darker areas of beliefs, nationalism and ethnicity seen in the 20th Century. This paper will argue that without adoption of citizen enhancing concepts – such as peace education, active inquiry, transformative models, and universally recognised value systems informed by human rights knowledge – to construct alternative models for citizenry, human existence will continue to be self-seeking, self-serving, and hegemony driven. The consequences of this will be further violence, further mistrust and lives that will continue to be, in the famous words of Thomas Hobbes in 1651, 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short‘. Full text available http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/dl/issue-14-article-2-final.pdf
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