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ii Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope Eubios Ethics Ins-tute Christchurch Tsukuba Science City Bangkok Cataloging-in-Publica.on data Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Educa-on can overcome Hatred and Divide / Macer, Darryl R.J. Christchurch, N.Z.: Eubios Ethics InsBtute ©2019. (Last updated 2 September 2020) Copyright © 2020 Eubios Ethics InsBtute All rights reserved. The copyright for the complete publicaBon is held by the Eubios Ethics InsBtute and the individual authors. The material may be used in educaBon provided the copies are provided free of charge. No part of this publicaBon may be reproduced for commercial use, without the prior wriRen permission of the Eubios Ethics InsBtute. hRp://www.eubios.info/ 1 v. 33 Chapters. ISBN 978-0-908897-35-3 1. Bioethics. 2. EducaBon. 3. Ethics. 4. Peace. 5. Philosophy. 6. JusBce. 7. Disaster. 8. Terrorism; 9. Love. 10. Hate. 11. Social JusBce. 12. Religion. I. Macer, Darryl Raymund Johnson, 1962. IV. Eubios Ethics Ins-tute. V. Title (Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope: How Educa-on can overcome Hatred and Divide). The Eubios Ethics InsBtute is a nonprofit group that aims to sBmulate 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 funcBon as an informaBon source for those with similar concerns. PublicaBons 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 InsBtute, nor the editors. Publisher’s Contact and Inquiries: [email protected] Cover design (Front and back) by Maniya (Mahta Bara-pour) Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope III Table of Contents Preface vi Darryl Macer 15 March 2019: What Was I Thinking Then? 1 Farid Ahmed Legacies of Love from Christchurch 9 Darryl Macer A Role for Individuals 19 Anwar Nasim and David R. Franz The tagged dove: lies, hints and prevention 25 Manuel Lozano Rodríguez Christchurch Massacre: Watershed Lost? 38 Maxu Masood Metaphilosophy and Intercultural Dialogue on Bioethics 43 Richard Evanoff An Inappropriate Silence? 56 Andrew Bosworth Communication in the Face of Terrorism: Messages that Aggravate or Heal 59 Ali Kassay Education against hate and racism to African-Americans: Social consequences 67 of choice of literature and movies for teachers Lara López-Hernáez Value-Based Education To Overcome Hatred & Divide 81 Ravichandran Moorthy A secondary school personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) pilot study project on racism, xenophobia and extremism 86 Alex Waller Ability expectation & ableism governance: An essential aspect of a culture of peace 105 Gregor Wolbring The Democratic and Moral De\icit of the Philippine Educational System 115 Rogelio P. Bayod How Education Can Overcome Hatred and Divide 125 Issa Abyad Education as a Means to Freedom 130 Rhyddhi Chakraborty The Power of Education 137 Lalitha Murali Embodied Contemplative Pedagogy (ECP): Beyond Mindfulness and 21st Century Skills (Insights from Yoga and Tai Chi) 141 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 Turkey 152 Lana al-Shareeda Le Blanc Is nurturing the ethics of love and peace possible? 163 Ayoub Abu Dayyeh Love of Nature in Dialogue Building 171 Irina Pollard The Ethics of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq During Gulf War ll (GWll) 178 Leonard H. Le Blanc III iv Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope Istanbul Communiqué on Looking Beyond Disaster 2019 (LBD10) 187 Volunteerism as a means towards a more responsible society 191 Ketan Mor Avenues to Global Peace and Harmony 196 John E. LaMuth Naming the Unnameable: new words for death after Auschwitz and Hiroshima 204 Raffaele Mantegazza The Ethics of Justice in Liberal Theory 208 Christopher Ryan Maboloc Bioethics and the promotion of a healthy mind, soul and body 215 Ananya Tritipthumrongchok Forgiveness is the extreme form of love and hate 218 Dhastagir Sultan Sheriff Religious tolerance, bioethics: Hindus, Muslims & Christians living together in India 221 Aruna Sivakami Religions, Cultural Harmony and Peace from the Perspective of Swami Vivekananda 227 Jaysankar Lal Shaw Letters from St. Stephen’s International School from Students 234 St. Stephen’s International School, Khao Yai, Thailand The Power of Youth to Interconnect: Conference of the Birds 239 Cambridge High School, Amman, Jordan Brain Memory-coding can in\luence brain health and society 241 Osama Rajhkan What more is to be said? When women and children are among the dead? 249 Sirwan Mohamadi Commander’s Compassion 251 Hasan Erbay Songs of Corona, songs of Crying 257 Jahid Siraz How are medical ethics practices impacted by terror attacks on the healthcare system in Turkey? 264 Sukran Sevimli Can Ihsanic Philosophy be an alternative to ‘Social Justice’? An empirical re\lection from Bangladeshi Indigenous people 278 Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Mohd Saad, Parimal Kumar Roy Call for Papers 301 Table with Index of Names of Referred Persons 302 Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope V vi Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope 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 dif\icult 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 \irst 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). Two papers re\lect 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). .p. vi-viii 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). Legacies of Love, Peace and Hope VII 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 re\lection 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.