Speaker: Sarah Motha, FHR Programme Manager for the MIgrants and Refugees Programme, Foundation for Human Rights
Date: 28 February 2017
Time: 12:15 for 12:30 - 14:00
Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below)
The presentation asks what Australian born alternative journalist John Pilger calls 'the inconvenient truth'? Why there is increase in violence in our society, xenophobia and growing phenomenon of nationalism? Why there is no ongoing intercultural dialogue and critical cross-cultural projects are some of the questions the presentation asks questions while tracing root causes, as human rights education methodologies creates space for such engagements. What is the role of countries that appear to be at peace (using a simplistic definition meaning no armed conflicts, no civil war) towards those countries that are in armed conflicts? Theorectical frameworks of Max Neef’s wheel of fundamental human needs and Paulo Freire’s work on Pedagogy of the Oppressed are reminders that human rights education must use work of progressive revolutionaries for reference such as Amilcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara, Samora Machel and Steve Biko’s of course noting that if discourse speak truth to power it is normative to have casualties in forms assassinations.
The HSRC seminar series is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The views and opinions expressed therein as well as findings and statements of the seminar series do not necessarily represent the views of the DST.
Kindly RSVP by 25 February 2017
Pretoria : HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria. Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za
Cape Town : HSRC, Merchant House 116-118 Buitengracht Street Cape Town, Cape Town. Contact: Jean Witten, Tel (021) 4668004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or JWitten@hsrc.ac.za
Durban : The Atrium, 5th Floor, 430 Peter Mokaba Ridge, Berea, 4001 , Contact Ridhwaan Khan, Tel (031) 242 5400, cell: 083 788 2786 or RKhan@hsrc.ac.za , or Hlengiwe Zulu at e-mail HZulu@hsrc.ac.za
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