Global Citizenship – Kosmos Journal

BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul

Article

Farmers in urban civilizations have always been subject to powers beyond them. Indeed, there is ample evidence that urban civilizations were invariably built on the conquest and subjection of farming cultures. Our current food industry grew out of the defeat of farmers’ efforts in the late nineteenth century to win fair prices for their production.

Published in Winter 2018 By Michael Foley

We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All

Introduction

Our Keynote authors represent the Coalition for Global Citizenship (CGC2030). The Coalition, based at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, advocates that governments, public and private sectors, and civil society, all work from a basis of values of just and fair treatment, inclusion and cooperation.

Published in Winter 2018 By Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

The Practice of Global Citizenship

Introduction

Global unity is our evolutionary destiny. This is what we believe at Kosmos, and why we continue.

Published in Winter 2018 By Rhonda Fabian

FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea

Conversation

Kosmos Journal | In 2015, your team produced 50 Feet from Syria, a film focused on the civilian impact of the Syrian conflict. Your new film, Lifeboat, bears witness to refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya. What was different for you personally about making those two films?

Published in Winter 2018 By Skye Fitzgerald

Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education

Essay

Introduced at an early stage of child development, global citizenship education enhances mutual respect and understanding, tolerance, and cultural literacy, while substantially weakening the power of radicalized messages.

Published in Winter 2018 By Ambassador Choonghee Hahn