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Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Education Can Overcome Hatred and Divide Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Education can overcome Hatred and Divide Editor: Darryl R. J. Macer Eubios Ethics Institute 2019 [Edition of 1 October 2019] ii Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope Eubios Ethics Institute Christchurch Tsukuba Science City Bangkok Cataloging-in-Publication data Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Education can overcome Hatred and Divide / Macer, Darryl R.J. Christchurch, N.Z.: Eubios Ethics Institute ©2019. Copyright © 2019 Eubios Ethics Institute All rights reserved. The copyright for the complete publication is held by the Eubios Ethics Institute and the individual authors. The material may be used in education provided the copies are provided free of charge. No part of this publication may be reproduced for commercial use, without the prior written permission of the Eubios Ethics Institute. http://www.eubios.info/ 1 v. 30 Chapters. ISBN 978-0-908897-35-3 1. Bioethics. 2. Education. 3. Ethics. 4. Peace. 5. Philosophy. 6. Justice. 7. Disaster. 8. Terrorism; 9. Love. 10. Hate. 11. Social Justice. 12. Religion. I. Macer, Darryl Raymund Johnson, 1962. IV. Eubios Ethics Institute. V. Title (Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Education can overcome Hatred and Divide). The Eubios Ethics Institute is a nonprofit group that aims to stimulate the discussion of ethical issues, and how we may use new technology in ways consistent with "good life". An important part of this dialogue is to function as an information source for those with similar concerns. Publications are available through the website www.eubios.info, and refer to the ordering guidelines in this book. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily represent the views of the Eubios Ethics Institute, nor the editors. Publisher’s Contact and Inquiries: [email protected] Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope iii Table of Contents Preface v Darryl Macer 15 March 2019: What Was I Thinking Then? 1 Farid Ahmed Legacies of Love from Christchurch 10 Darryl Macer A Role for Individuals 20 Anwar Nasim and David R. Franz The tagged dove: lies, hints and prevention 26 Manuel Lozano Rodríguez Christchurch Massacre: Watershed Lost? 41 Maxu Masood Metaphilosophy and Intercultural Dialogue on Bioethics 47 Richard Evanoff An Inappropriate Silence? 61 Andrew Bosworth Communication in the Face of Terrorism: Messages that Aggravate or Heal 64 Ali Kassay Education against hate and racism to African-Americans: Social consequences 72 of choice of literature and movies for teachers Lara López-Hernáez Value-Based Education To Overcome Hatred & Divide 87 Ravichandran Moorthy A secondary school personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) pilot study project on racism, xenophobia and extremism 93 Alex Waller Ability expectation & ableism governance: An essential aspect of a culture of peace 116 Gregor Wolbring The Democratic and Moral Deficit of the Philippine Educational System 124 Rogelio P. Bayod How Education Can Overcome Hatred and Divide 138 Issa Abyad Education as a Means to Freedom 143 Rhyddhi Chakraborty The Power of Education 149 Lalitha Murali Embodied Contemplative Pedagogy (ECP): Beyond Mindfulness and 21st Century Skills (Insights from Yoga and Tai Chi) 153 Daniel Mishori “The Lost Generation” in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Countries: The Ethics of the Failure to Educate Iraqi and Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey165 Lana al-Shareeda Le Blanc Is nurturing the ethics of love and peace possible? 177 Ayoub Abu Dayyeh iv Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope Love of Nature in Dialogue Building 186 Irina Pollard The Ethics of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq During Gulf War ll (GWll) 194 Leonard H. Le Blanc III Istanbul Communiqué on Looking Beyond Disaster 2019 (LBD10) 204 Volunteerism as a means towards a more responsible society 208 Ketan Mor Avenues to Global Peace and Harmony 213 John E. LaMuth Naming the Unnameable: new words for death after Auschwitz and Hiroshima 223 Raffaele Mantegazza The Ethics of Justice in Liberal Theory 228 Christopher Ryan Maboloc Bioethics and the promotion of a healthy mind, soul and body 236 Ananya Tritipthumrongchok Forgiveness is the extreme form of love and hate 240 Dhastagir Sultan Sheriff Religious tolerance, bioethics: Hindus, Muslims & Christians living together in India 243 Aruna Sivakami Religions, Cultural Harmony and Peace from the Perspective of Swami Vivekananda 250 Jaysankar Lal Shaw Letters from St. Stephen’s International School from Students 258 St. Stephen’s International School, Khao Yai, Thailand The Power of Youth to Interconnect: Conference of the Birds 263 Cambridge High School, Amman, Jordan Brain Memory-coding can influence brain health and society 265 Osama Rajhkan What more is to be said? When women and children are among the dead? 273 Sirwan Mohamadi Call for Papers 275 Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope v Preface Darryl R. J. Macer, Ph.D., Hon. D., MPH. President, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), USA Director, Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand; Tsukuba Science City, Japan; Bangkok, Thailand Email: [email protected] Thank you for opening this book to start to read. Thank you for sharing your time to read, write, share and think about how we can overcome despair, hatred and evil. Legacies of love, peace and hope is a project involving people of all ages, all religions, and individual legacies, who argue that we have had enough violence. It is time to move on from the Culture of Hate to realize that the need for renewal in the Culture of Peace is critical for our world. We have the spirit and tools to stop it, and let’s do that. How much further can we sit by and claim that this hatred is someone else’s problem, when we still see the constant wars, terrorist attacks, hate speech, and other acts of hate? As a person who is not normally depressed, in fact quite often over excited with the wonders of life and looking always on the positive side, you may think that it was very difficult for me to write about heartbreak, hatred and evil. My philosophy of bioethics as the love of life is my core value. So I decided to wait until I actually was depressed and heartbroken to start to write this preface, having so many papers from all around the world in the volume here. For all creatures that I have harmed, and will harm in the future, I pray for forgiveness. The prayer I had when I climbed on the roof of my childhood home in Christchurch to see the rising sun of this millennium (1 January 2000), is we must ensure everyone can love life. Whether you pray to the rising Sun, the setting Sun, God, the mountains, the trees, and or your ancestors or descendants, or all of these (as I do), there is something in this collection to help us ensure that the legacy for today and the future is love, faith, peace and hope. We are more than simply DNA and atoms, but thanks for our biological, social and spiritual heritage. The stage is set for this volume in the paper, “15 March 2019: What Was I Thinking Then?” by Farid Ahmed (New Zealand), who forgives the killer who killed his beloved wife and so many of his friends while he was in the first mosque in Christchurch that was the subject of the terror attack. When something evil happens it is our free will to decide whether to forgive or not the act, but the act to rebuild our society takes all our positive energy if it is to succeed. In the paper. “Legacies of Love from Christchurch”, I, Darryl Macer (New Zealand, Japan, USA) explore how my life has been striving to share the love of life with all creatures. In “A Role for Individuals”, Anwar Nasim (Pakistan, Canada) and David R. Franz (Canada), describe how change can be made through the power of non-government individuals. Everyone has the responsibility to be the change that they want in the world (Mahatma Gandhi). .p. v-vii in Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Education can overcome Hatred and Divide, ed. Darryl R. J. Macer (Christchurch, N.Z.: Eubios Ethics Institute, 2019). vi Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope Two papers reflect on the links between Islamophobia and racism and terror, including, “The Tagged Dove: Lies, Hints and Prevention”, by Manuel Lozano Rodríguez (Spain); and “Christchurch Massacre: Watershed Lost?”, by Maxu Masood (Australia). We are the product of our social networks, and communication and dialogue is critical to a new world, as argued in “Metaphilosophy and Intercultural Dialogue on Bioethics”, by Richard Evanoff (Japan, USA). Andrew Bosworth (Canada, Thailand) asks how can we sit by without action in “An Inappropriate Silence?“. A further reflection is in “Communication in the Face of Terrorism: Messages that Aggravate or Heal” by Ali Kassay (Jordan). One of the central themes of this book is the power of education, which is the vehicle for lasting change on our planet. Lara López-Hernáez (Spain) presents an important case study, “Education Against Hate and Racism to African-Americans: Social Consequences of Choice of Literature and Movies for Teachers”. “Value-Based Education to Overcome Hatred and Divide” by Ravichandran Moorthy (Malaysia) argues that we need to promote values of unity and tolerance in our educational system. A specific educational trial inspired from the March 2019 events is “A Secondary School Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Pilot Study Project on Racism, Xenophobia and Extremism”, Alex Waller (England, Thailand). Not only do we find religious violence but also discrimination against people who are different in any way and overcoming this is critical as discussed by Gregor Wolbring (Canada), in “Ability expectation and ableism governance: An essential aspect of a culture of peace”.
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