Learning to Live Together, a resource material to nurture ethical values needed to learn to live together in plural societies, is now available for teachers and youth leaders.  Read more ...

• Respect for the dignity of human beings of different religions, cultures and civilizations
• Affirmation of the right of the child to full and healthy physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development and the right of the child to education, as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Recognition that children are active participants in shaping their own ethical and spiritual development, and one of the primary actors in ethics education
• Importance of ethics learning at every stage and in every context of the child’s development, including the family, community, school, peer groups, and media, with priority placed on the vital early childhood years
• Inclusion of all children, and the need for special measures to reach those in poverty or other marginalized groups with opportunities for both basic and ethics education
• Unity of action on a global scale complemented by unique approaches created in each region and local area in advocating and implementing ethics education
• Cooperation with people of faith, regardless of religious tradition, in realizing the implementation of ethics education around the world
• Valuing cooperation with United Nations agencies, NGOs, governments, and a broad range of other organizations and people of good will
• Pursuing synergies with the various efforts for ethics education that are already underway around the world.
• Collaboration with efforts related to the Declaration Toward a Global Ethic issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, U.S.A., in 1993.

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