I gave a talk at the
International Human Rights Training Program in Montreal yesterday. I have loaded both an
HTML version and an
MSWord version of my talk on my
website. I was presenting along with Chrysogone Zougmore, the Secretary General of the Mouvement Burkinabe des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples (MBDHP) from Burkina Faso.
Chrysogone and i were talking about the relationship between human rights education and advocacy. My three principle points were:
- There is no such thing as neutral education and no such thing as a neutral educator
- All education is advocacy – though not all advocacy is education
- Education is the act of engaging common sense persuasively in order together to create good sense and change bad sense.
The IHRTP is a unique human rights training program run by the
Canadian Human Rights Foundation. You educators out there might be interested in their
training manual - check it out.
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