Education, development, integration: it is time for action

Abstract

Education is necessary to «direct one's life with meaning», to be able to build as citizens a genuine democracy on a local and global scale (United Nations), guided by universal values (Human Rights). Likewise, an integral development (social and economic), endogenous (training), sustainable (respectful of nature) and, above all, guided by ethical and solidary bases of international cooperation that is very different from those of the market economy, is necessary. It is urgent, as a «global duty», to put into practice the 8 Millennium Goals, beginning with the eradication of poverty and hunger. Misery and exclusion are a breeding ground from which migratory flows of the desperate derive, where frustration and radicalization lead to the temptation to use force: violence can never be justified but we must try to explain it. We already have most of the diagnoses correctly made. Treatments, many of which we also already know, should not be postponed. It's a matter of political conviction.