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[Video] Education for citizenship and cultural diversity
Location of production | Year of production | Running time: 
Beirut, Lebanon | 2014 | 3:00 (3min)
Corporate author: 
Adyan Foundation
Region: 
Arab States

 

The video talks about citizenship and its foundations. It narrates at the introduction that citizenship is based on the respect of common human values and serving of common goods. The video also talks about the issue and challenge of marginalization of  certain groups and religions in societies. How such issue is also leading to the collapse of citizenship is presented. It is argued that all citizens in a society have to participate in public life activities in which everyone respect each other. The society should benefit from diversity not get harmed by it. As a solution, it is mentioned that dialogue and interaction between citizens enriches individuals lives and their groups. At the end, it highly emphasized that citizenship is the way to prosperity and sustainable development.  

 

Includes English Subtitles

 

 

Resource Type: 
Multimedia materials
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Diversity / cultural literacy / inclusive
Level of education: 
Non-formal education
Other