Thématique N°2

Democracy, Development and Human Rights (1994)

The end of the 20th century is a story that will live forever. This is a story that can be summed up in the hope of a better world rejuvenating continuously from the ashes of the most colossal acts of injustice and repeated disillusionment. Furthermore, the future appears worrisome. Through this methodological optic, the optimists having benefited from the market economy deny the existence of surreal facts that the peoples of developing nations or nations whose economies are “in transition” are starting to observe in disbelief. A portion of humanity is experiencing a new form of slavery under the chains of capitalism, according to Dérida. In western nations, market logic, upon which new educational policies are based, only makes room for winners. These legal inequalities give rise to violence, unveil the modern chaos as well as the lack of alternatives to this corrosion of universal justice which makes the Kantian dream further and further remote.

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Summary

• Foreword by Monique Prindezis
• Introduction, by Jean Hénaire
• A Response to International Chaos, by Samir Amin
• Education for Democracy and Democracy within the School, by Michel Vuille
• The Participation of the Cree Native-American Tribe of Quebec in the Development of Democracy, by André Jacob