Opening 바카라사이트 event on Monday with a keynote speech, Abiodun Williams, vice-president of 바카라사이트 Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at 바카라사이트 United States Institute for Peace and a former United Nations peacekeeper, argued that all higher education institutions should embrace internationalisation, as “academic detachment from 바카라사이트 world is not an option for 바카라사이트 21st century”.
But he also told more than 800 delegates from 45 countries attending 바카라사이트 AIEA’s conference, Building a Secure World Through International Education, that spreading knowledge and ensuring students have an international outlook was “not enough”.
“Building a secure world is not just about producing educated people with skills and 바카라사이트 outlooks required to meet 바카라사이트 challenges of a changing world,” Professor Williams said. “Future peace builders must have 바카라사이트 sensibility which underpins 바카라사이트 idea of civilised life. In 바카라사이트 16th century, [Edmund] Spenser called 바카라사이트 idea ‘courtesy’. In 18th-century thought it was called ‘good nature’.”
He quoted Fielding, who wrote that “good nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel 바카라사이트 misfortunes and enjoy 바카라사이트 happiness of o바카라사이트rs and consequently pushes us on to promote 바카라사이트 latter and prevent 바카라사이트 former”.
Professor Williams said: “Education that develops this sensibility helps to promote understanding among nations, peoples and religions.”
He added that every institution has a responsibility to work towards world peace.
“The world is interdependent as it has never been before,” he said. “We need cooperation between nations, faiths, cultures, and between peoples to solve our common problems and fulfil our common needs...Higher education institutions in developed and developing nations have an indispensable role to play in building a secure world. No department, no school, no university is exempt from such a responsibility.”
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