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Global Citizenship

Global citizenship refers to a person's identity and responsibilities as a member of the global community and world at large. It is based on the idea that all people should care for humanity wherever they live. A global citizen is aware of global issues, respects diversity, and is willing to make the world more equitable and sustainable. The major challenge is to embrace a global identity and build a values-based world community centered around human rights, environmentalism, and other shared goals. Global citizenship requires awareness of worldwide problems and willingness to act at both local and global levels.

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Global Citizenship

Global citizenship refers to a person's identity and responsibilities as a member of the global community and world at large. It is based on the idea that all people should care for humanity wherever they live. A global citizen is aware of global issues, respects diversity, and is willing to make the world more equitable and sustainable. The major challenge is to embrace a global identity and build a values-based world community centered around human rights, environmentalism, and other shared goals. Global citizenship requires awareness of worldwide problems and willingness to act at both local and global levels.

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GOOD

MORNING
WHAT DOES
IT MEAN TO BE
A GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
UNESCO
UNITED NATIONS
EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC
AND CULTURAL
ORGANIZATION
SOME DEFINITIONS
FOR
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
A Global Citizen is
aware of the wider
world and has a sense
of their own role as a
world citizen.
Global citizenship is the rights,
responsibilities and duties that come
with being a member of the global
entity as a citizen of a particular nation
or place.
A Global Citizenship is :
"An ethic of care for the world.“
At The Global Citizens’ Initiative we
say that a “global citizen is someone
who identifies with being part of an
emerging world community and
whose actions contribute to
building this community’s values
and practices.”
To test the validity of this
definition we examine its basic
assumptions: (a) that there is
such a thing as an emerging world
community with which people
can identify; and (b) that such a
community has a nascent set of
values and practices
.
Historically, human beings have always
formed communities based on shared
identity. Such identity gets forged in response
to a variety of human needs— economic,
political, religious and social. As group
identities grow stronger, those who hold
them organize into communities, articulate
their shared values, and build governance
structures to support their beliefs.
Today, the forces of global engagement are helping some
people identify as global citizens who have a sense of
belonging to a world community. This growing global
identity in large part is made possible by the forces of
modern information, communications and transportation
technologies. In increasing ways these technologies are
strengthening our ability to connect to the rest of the
world—through the Internet; through participation in the
global economy; through the ways in which world-wide
environmental factors play havoc with our lives; through
the empathy we feel when we see pictures of
humanitarian disasters in other countries; or through the
ease with which we can travel and visit other parts of the
world.
Those of us who see ourselves as global
citizens are not abandoning other identities,
such as allegiances to our countries, ethnicities
and political beliefs. These traditional identities
give meaning to our lives and will continue to
help shape who we are. However, as a result of
living in a globalized world, we understand that
we have an added layer of responsibility; we
also are responsible for being members of a
world-wide community of people who share
the same global identity that we have.
We may not yet be fully awakened
to this new layer of responsibility,
but it is there waiting to be
grasped. The major challenge that
we face in the new millennium is to
embrace our global way of being
and build a sustainable values-
based world community.
What might our community’s values be? They are the values that
world leaders have been advocating for the past 70 years and include
human rights, environmental protection, religious pluralism, gender
equity, sustainable worldwide economic growth, poverty alleviation,
prevention of conflicts between countries, elimination of weapons of
mass destruction, humanitarian assistance and preservation of
cultural diversity.

Since World War II, efforts have been undertaken to develop global
policies and institutional structures that can support these enduring
values. These efforts have been made by international organizations,
sovereign states, transnational corporations, international
professional associations and others. They have resulted in a growing
body of international agreements, treaties, legal statutes and
technical standards.
Yet despite these efforts we have a long way to
go before there is a global policy and institutional
infrastructure that can support the emerging world
community and the values it stands for. There are
significant gaps of policy in many domains, large
questions about how to get countries and
organizations to comply with existing policy
frameworks, issues of accountability and
transparency and, most important of all from a global
citizenship perspective, an absence of mechanisms
that enable greater citizen participation in the
institutions of global governance.
The Global Citizens’ Initiative sees the need for a
cadre of citizen leaders who can play activist roles in
efforts to build our emerging world community. Such
global citizenship activism can take many forms,
including advocating, at the local and global level for
policy and programmatic solutions that address global
problems; participating in the decision-making
processes of global governance organizations;
adopting and promoting changes in behavior that
help protect the earth’s environment; contributing to
world-wide humanitarian relief efforts; and organizing
events that celebrate the diversity in world music and
art, culture and spiritual traditions.
Most of us on the path to global citizenship are still
somewhere at the beginning of our journey. Our eyes
have been opened and our consciousness raised.
Instinctively, we feel a connection with others around
the world yet we lack the adequate tools, resources,
and support to act on our vision. Our ways of thinking
and being are still colored by the trapping of old
allegiances and ways of seeing things that no longer
are as valid as they used to be. There is a longing to
pull back the veil that keeps us from more clearly
seeing the world as a whole and finding more
sustainable ways of connecting with hose who share
our common humanity.
HOW TO BEC0ME
A GOOD
CITIZENSHIP?
A Global Citizen is someone who:
•is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their
own role as a world citizen
•respects and values diversity
•has an understanding of how the world works
•is outraged by social injustice
•participates in the community at a range of levels,
from the local to the global
•is willing to act to make the world a more equitable
and sustainable place
•takes responsibility for their actions.
RECITATION
TIME !
Answer the following questions:
1. What does global citizenship mean ?

2. What are its basic assumptions ?

3. What is the foremost challenge that we face in the new millennium


?

4. What have the world leaders been advocating for the past 70 years

5. What does global citizenship entail ?

6. How can you play your role as a global citizen ?


– 4. Its include ; human rights, environmental
protection, religious pluralism , gender equity,
sustainable worldwide economic growth , poverty
alleviation, prevention of conflicts between
countries, elimination of weapons of mass
destruction, humanitarian assistance, and
preservation of cultural diversity.

• 5.
• 6. To take care the environment by planting
trees, by not scattering dirts, and by not adding
pollution.

• Also by thinking first a lot of times before saying


something to someone, or before writing
something on the internet and making sure that
whatever words I say would be able to help
someone in a nice or better way, and not
causing anything bad to them physically,
mentally and most of all emotionally
Why is global
citizenship
education
needed?
"Education must be not
only a transmission of
culture but also a provider
of alternative views of
the world and a
strengthener of skills to
explore them"
MOTIVATIONAL
QUOTES
WHAT DID YOU
LEARN ?
GOD BLESS

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