Tsunami e guerre: per una educazione ad una cittadinanza planetaria

Abstract

The spread of wars, now rapid and devastating as a tsunami, is always linked to economic and political grounds which play (often speciously) on cultural, religious, ethnic grounds; they are origin of the exaltation of particolarism, and do not favour the enhancement of identity that is realized in plurality. In this perspective, then, peace education inevitably passes through citizenship education: a citizenship that is now to be understood as a worldwide and intercultural issue, at the same time global and local. It is therefore from such “emergencies” that we need to rethink a citizenship education, which takes account of the pressures of globalization, on the one hand, and of the cultural proprium of everybody and everyone, on the other hand.