tzippy@dasys1.UUCP (Tzipporah BenAvraham) (10/07/89)
1. The Talloires Declaration of University Presidents
We, the presidents of 45 universities from all regions and many cultures of
the world, having convened at Talloires, France, from 12-16 September 1988,
believe that the universities of the world bear profound moral
responsibilities to increase understanding of the awful risks of the nuclear
age and to reduce those risks. Charged by our societies to prepare our
students for life, we are committed as educators to prevent global death.
In a world that is plagued by war, hunger, injustice, and suffering, we
believe that universities nurture life through the creation and transmission
of knowledge. We join in supporting research and teaching programs that will
increase our common understanding of the causes of conflicts and their
resolution, the relationship between peace and development, and the sources of
injustice and hunger. In so doing, we shall better discharge our
responsibilities to educate the men and women who will lead our societies into
the twenty-first century.
Although differences in regional perspectives and academic traditions will
necessarily create a diversity in our teaching and research, we aspire to a
commonality in our educational programs. We hope that the sixty million
students and two million teachers engaged in higher education throughout the
world will join us in these endeavors.
To achieve these goals, we recognise the importance of the following local,
regional, and global measures:
1. Language, history, culture, and methods to create peace must be intregral
parts of the subjects that we teach. Peace as a concept must be in our
students' imaginations, in their intellects, and in thier lives.
2. Research and teaching in this area should incorporate contributions from
many fields of knowledge, including the natural sciences, the humanities,
medicine, the social sciences, philosophy, theology, and law. We recognise
that many universities have agreed to conduct only research the results of
which may be made public, and we encourage this approach.
3. Universities should support the development of courses and research on arms
control, negotiation and conflict resolution, peace and development, and
related subjects while providing for the training of teachers and scholars
interested in incorporation these topics into their regular courses.
4. In making every effort to support regional academic associations,
universities should encourage the development of regional centers that assist
in the organization of research, the exchange of information and curricula,
and faciliy development in the areas of our concern.
5. In order to maximize the global impact of local and regional programs,
universities should design an implement an international information center
and communications consortium. These facilities will support the exchange of
information, provide communications based on relatively low-cost technologies,
offer access to computer networks, and afford one- and two-way television
linkages among university classrooms in various parts of the world and thereby
create a truly "Global Classroom."
6. In support of these local and regional initiatives, we, the presidents
assembled at Talloires, have established a coordinating body in the form of a
steering committee and permanent secretariet.
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