Global Intercultural Citizenship for Human Dignity (GICHD):
A Philo-politico-educational perspective
by David Balosa
David Balosa:
Adjunct Professor of French, Portuguese,
Spanish, & Swahili at Delaware State University
Department of English and Foreign Languages
dbalosa@desu.edu
Doctoral Student at University of Maryland Baltimore
County (UMBC)
Department of Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC)
dbalosa1@umbc.edu
The Right Philosophy, Politics, and Education for Harmonious
Interaction and Movements within a Shared and Protected Planet
GICHD: DEFINITION & Philosophy
• GICHD is an interdisciplinary perspective to the
analysis of the social crisis in the era of
globalization and a proposal to human dignity
and humiliation issues’ resolution.
• GICHD core philosophy is a transformational
interculturality approach based on the right
philosophy, politics, and education for
harmonious interaction and movements within a
shared and protected planet.
GICHD FRAMEWORK
Within the transformational interculturality
approach, the GICHD framework is to promote and
support 4 fundamental concepts:
• Intercultural justice: Unity without uniformity
• Common planet to share and protect
• Equity in social policy
• DIGA (Dignity, Integrity, Generosity, and Amitié)
Why a philo-politico-educational insight?
The philo-politico-educational insight may provide the appropriate skills
for transformational interculturality locally and globally and may
adequately answer three major critical questions about the crisis of our
time:
• Who we are and what we think about ourselves in relation with
others?
• How to organize ourselves as human beings for harmonious interaction
and movements within our shared and protected planet?
• Why should we be willing to learn from one another locally and
globally? (See The African Fable: The Toad and the Rat)
• http://www.centreafrika.com/lecrapaudetlerat.htm
(I will provide the translation in English to the workshop participants)
Method: LITERATURE REVIEW
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Dervin et al. (eds). (2011). Politics of interculturality. New Castle, UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
D’Anieri, P. (2012). International politics: Power and purpose in global
affairs. Boston. MA: Wadsworth.
• Fanon, F. (2004). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove Press.
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Gomes de Mato, F. C. (2013). Dignity: A multidimensional view. Lake
Oswego, OR: Dignity Press.
Mall, R. A. (2000). Intercultural Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers.
Noddings, N. (eds.) (2005). Educating citizens for global awareness. New
York: Colombia University Press.
Lindner, E. (2012). A dignity economy: Creating an economy that serves
human dignity and preserves our planet. Lake Oswego, OR: Dignity Press.
Sandel, M. J. (2009). Justice: What’s the right thing to do? New York: FSG.
Sorrells, K. (2013). Intercultural communication: Globalization and social
justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Conclusion and Discussion
• How can GICHD contribute to the mediation of the
social crisis of our time?
• In which ways all human beings have the responsibility
in the share and the protection of our planet?
• How significant is the implementation of GICHD
perspective in establishing equity in social policy when
it comes to addressing the human dignity and
humiliation issues?
• What did you learn from the African fable: the toad
and the rat and how can that lesson be applied to solve
the local and global indignity of our time?
Conclusion & Discussion
To solve the social crisis and the human indignity of our time, the right philosophy, politics,
and education for harmonious interaction and movements within a shared and protected
planet, I believe, is the way to go. That is my core belief of transformational interculturality. It
is also my interpellation to you and all those concerned with the social injustice as the major
cause of the human indignity to join the cause in any degree of contribution.