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Global Citizenship in a Digital World (The MILID Yearbook, 2014) Year of publication: 2014 Author: Sherri Hope Culver | Paulette Kerr Corporate author: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (Sweden) | NORDICOM | University of Gothenburg The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation in global spaces in which persons are media and information literate and are equipped with competencies and attitudes to deal with the multi-faceted nature of a mediated world in which information is no longer bound by space or time. The unprecedented access to and use of media and Internet technologies for communication and collaboration especially among youth, suggest that effective strategies must be found to enable active critical inquiry and effective media production. The proliferation of mediated spaces throughout education environments, as well as personal and professional environments, does not in itself guarantee that citizens will consider their role as global citizens as they create and consume media. This awareness must be cultivated, encouraged and taught.The 2014 MILID Yearbook brings together a range of reviewed articles, which articulate the theme of global citizenship from varied perspectives and regions of the world. The articles represent different expressions on media and information literacy from researchers and practitioners who offer bold new strategies, share research findings and best practices, and share musings and reflections. 
Promoting the culture of dialogue between cultures in the Arab world Year of publication: 2013 Author: Selim El Sayegh Corporate author: UNESCO Beirut The major challenge of the Arab uprisings resides in the youth drive. Accounting for 60 per cent of the Arab population, Youth have been calling for political and economic reforms. During the revolts, these claims have become more radical seeking a fundamental change. This gradual evolution, from a relatively partial change to a more absolute comprehensive one, ushers in a new era with a different intellectual construct. With the ousting of dictatorships, all civil society forces are unleashed with huge actual and potential resources mobilized to contribute to building up the new order. Groups of solidarity, communities, parties, associations, and organizations of all nature among many others put forward new ideas and adequate action plans. Liberty thus acclaimed becomes the outcry for dignity, honor and pride. Never before in the Arab world has the individual had such a central place as it does today. An individual fully grasping the possibilities of restored liberty and recognized dignity gives birth to a new citizen acting in a new paradigm; a new citizen that seeks a transcendence of the ego to relate the individual to the common good. This fresh paradigm empowers the individual as a citizen in the name of equality, while simultaneously recognizing the right of difference of each citizen when it comes to belonging to a culture or sub‐culture. The right to be different involves more than the right to differ and to dispute and by the same token, the obligation of peaceful settlement. The right to be different, by belonging to a culture or a sub‐culture means in a new era of liberty and dignity, the obligation to conduct a transformation of the patterns generating disputes and conflicts among cultures. Henceforth, the issue of promoting the culture of intercultural dialogue in the aftermath of the Arab revolts represents major characteristics that will be reflected hereafter. 
Pathways to Empowerment: Recognizing the Competences of Syrian Refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey Year of publication: 2018 Author: Madhu Singh Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning(UIL) For Syrian refugees living in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, recognition is a transformative mechanism that can help them enter or re-enter education, integrate into the world of work and participate fully in their host communities. However, while policy-makers in the region have prioritized the recognition, validation and accreditation of non-formal and informal learning, it remains a major challenge to develop systems that do this effectively. Pathways to Empowerment lays the essential groundwork for such a system, urging governments to develop comprehensive national strategies rather than ad hoc projects to recognize the competences of Syrian refugees. Its recommendations will contribute to dialogue between national authorities and social partners, and guide policy actions and RVA practices both in the region and in other parts of the world where recognition of refugees’ learning is a critical issue. 
Youth Employment in the Mediterranean: Improving Skills Anticipation and TVET Systems Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: European Union (EU) The Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM) project is a three-year regional initiative launched by UNESCO, to be implemented in collaboration with nine Member States from 2018 to 2020. The YEM project is funded by the European Union and aims to improve skills anticipation systems and to promote technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Its goal is also to strengthen youth employment and encourage entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region. 
Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection? Year of publication: 2003 Author: Alan B. Krueger | Jitka Maleckova Corporate author: American Economic Association In the authors' view, any connection between poverty, education and terrorism is indirect, complicated and probably quite weak. Instead of viewing terrorism as a direct response to low market opportunities or ignorance, the article suggests it is more accurately viewed as a response to political conditions and long-standing feelings of indignity and frustration that have little to do with economics. 
Gender Equality and Child Labour: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators Year of publication: 2006 Author: Anita Amorim | UnaMurray | Ségolène Samouiller | Sandhya Badrinath Corporate author: International Labour Organization (ILO) Ending child labor and promoting equality between boys and girls, men and women, go hand in hand. This educational tool is designed to demonstrate the necessity of adopting the concept of gender in order to understand the complexity of the phenomenon of girls and boys work and to highlight the impact of gender on children's choices, both with regard to job opportunities and the financial resources available and different for boys and girls.This educational tool aims to help male and female trainers in Yemen to raise awareness among young people, especially adolescents, and to understand child labor and gender equality. It is based on the basic principle that adolescents have an important role to play by strengthening their awareness of social justice issues and at the same time influencing their society in order to bring about positive change in it. By holding girls and boys accountable and recognizing the value of their contributions, we hope to harness the creative richness and commitment of adolescents to combat child labor and promote gender equality. 
Environmental Education: A Step Towards a Sustainable Future Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: Sky News The video is a review of the efforts of the United Arab Emirates in the field of environmental education. The episode begins with a video presentation of the activities of a group of schools in environmental education. After that, the announcer will host a specialist to talk about this topic. The video indicates that environmental education has a major leading role in the process of spreading awareness and finding solutions to all environmental problems. 
Human Rights and the Digital Challenge Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) The file is a report on the international symposium "Human Rights and Digital Challenges". The organization of this symposium came in line with the commitments of both ISESCO and the Kingdom of Morocco in the field of promoting the principles of human rights in their holistic sense. And also to spread the values of peace, the principles of citizenship and positive coexistence. The symposium is considered a prelude and a path to keeping pace with the most important challenges facing human rights, strengthening cooperation and exchanging experiences and expertise among ISESCO member states. 
School Cooperation Activities: The Idris Al-Awwal Community School as a Model Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Alghad Channel The video talks about one of the important things in creating an atmosphere of familiarity and cooperation among students in schools. School cooperation is a renewed educational movement that relies on the element of activation and communication to support formal educational work. Also, school cooperation works to push students to carry out cooperative, integrated and parallel educational activities aimed primarily at activating school life and empowering female and male learners with the technology of self-learning and participatory learning. Cooperative learning also contributes to raising students' motivation to learn and to contributing to the openness of the educational institution to society. 
The Relationship of Culture to Education Year of publication: 2018 Author: Lutfi Hajlawi The video is one of the lessons in an Introduction to Education course at King Khalid University. The doctor discusses the concepts of education and culture and the relationship between them. This course is part of the Teachers Preparation Program at King Khalid University.