“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” [Confucius]
According to the philosopher Edgar Morin, the major issues in today’s world come from dynamic tensions in four dimensions:
- The local/global dimension, with tensions between identity and globalization;
- The decreasing/growing dimension, with tensions between environmental conservation and economic development;
- The systems/themes dimension, with tensions between disjunctive thought and system thinking, top-down knowledge transmission and critical thinking;
- The pro-action/reaction dimension, with tensions between short-term and long-term, emergency and prevention, democratic participation and bureaucracy/technocracy
In order to ease these tensions, Indaba-Network aims to help young people develop innovative actions in these main fields of action:
- Horizons: discovering other regions, countries and communities, travelling in a responsible manner, respecting the environment, people and cultures, understanding the global interactions, fighting against ethnic prejudices and racism while preserving the cultural identities.
- Planet: experiencing the beauty of natural environment and learning how its safeguard determines everybody’s life. Developing new ways of consumption and production respecting the environment and contributing to sustainable development.
- Health: Discovering that health is a complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease, and that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental human rights of every human being.
- Cultures: learning to express themselves, communicating through the language of art, music, poetry, theatre, cinema, discovering or inventing different models of cultural expression.
- Liberating education: experiencing the power of active teaching methods, helping young people discover and develop their potential to find their way in life and happiness. Developing educational programs directed towards the development of critical thinking, system thinking and the conquest of knowledge.
- Social and supportive economy: exploring ways to access employment and financial independence, developing income-generating activities to fight against poverty, experimenting new solutions to create social enterprises.
- Citizenship, from local to global: analysing the problems of society where one lives, developing an empathy with the less fortunate and helping them improve their living conditions. Discovering how global interdependencies shape the future of humanity. Acting for democracy and participation of all in decision-making at local, national and global levels.
- Organizations and networks: transforming organizations from the inside to release them from bureaucracy, make them open, interconnected, dynamic, participative, respectful of human rights, giving women and men equal opportunities to access responsibilities, and engaging them in building a better world.
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