This online event launches “The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto”. The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of public service media and the creation…
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The 37th Summer Academy of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution will be held online from 1 to 4 September. It is devoted to be part of the international “Homeland Earth” campaign for planetary awareness. The language…
The conference chair, Marja Nesterova, invited Werner Wintersteiner to speak about “Homeland Earth” – the idea, the book of Edgar Morin, and the campaign for planetary solidarity. The conference was about EU values, inclusion, and sustainable development and their relationship…
Within the framework of the European project INCLUE, devoted to the “Building of an Inclusive and democratic Europe against the rise of fascism and xenophobia”, GSIS took part in the organisation of a session focused on the role of information…
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Werner Wintersteiner, peace researcher and peace educator, Austria, and Alfredo Pena-Vega, sociologist, Scientific Director of the Global Youth Climate Pact, France, wrote a letter to be published besides English, in French, Spanish, Portuguese and German to ignite a discussion among…
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The deadline for some abstract submissions to conferences, workshops or other events at the IS4SI Summit 12-19 September 2021 has been extended to 15 June 2021. This holds for our workshop on Digital Humanism – How to shape digitalisation in…
Our befriended Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FifF) criticises the German government for blocking the progress of worldwide vaccination against COVID-19. They demand from the EU Commission to support the TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccine patents. See…
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Morin expert Werner Wintersteiner, retired University Professor at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, working in Peace Pedagogy and Global Citizenship Education, Affiliate of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution and active in the campaign “Homeland Earth”, published recently a…
The biannual Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information will, according to the pandemic situation, take place online from 12 to 19 September 2021. It is made up of several conferences and particular workshops and symposia under…
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An important lecture on typifying the era humankind has entered was held by Frank Adloff on 14 April 2021 in the framework of a lecture series at the University of Basel on capitalism and critique of capitalism. Adloff is professor…
