Federico Mayor

Mayor, Federico

Mayor, Federico

Founder and Chairman, Foundation for a Culture of Peace; Former Director General of UNESCO
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Founder and Chairman, Foundation for a Culture of Peace; Former Director General of UNESCO

Prof. Federico Mayor is professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Rector of the University of Granada (1968-1972), Minister of Education and Science of Spain (1981-1982), Deputy Director General of UNESCO (1978-1981) and Director General of this Organization (1987-1999). President of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace (2000/ ), which main activities focus on education for peace, human rights and democracy, struggle against poverty and exclusion, defence of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, and conflict prevention.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Future Education: A New Paradigm
Federico Mayor
Get Full Text in PDF “Education for all throughout life”: This was the main conclusion of the First World Conference on Education organized by UNESCO in Jomtien, March 1990. For all and very importantly, throughout life. This became the new title of the main programme of UNESCO on Education that was called “Literacy and basic education”. With the advent of digital technology, the World Congress was held at a moment in which, for the first time in history, the voice of “We, the peoples” was...
World Context and Implications for Higher Education Systems and Institutions
Federico Mayor
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract For the first time in history, thanks to digital technology, human beings are able to express themselves freely and participate: from passive spectators to actors. They know what is happening on planet Earth as a whole, and are thus becoming world citizens. Women, the cornerstone of the new era, are able to progressively take part in the decision-making process. In this context, universities will not only efficiently contribute to being, to knowing, to doing, to...
Higher Education -Cornerstone of the New Era
Federico Mayor
Get Full Text in PDF “Many things are to be done and everything is possible,… But who, if not all?” Miquel Martí i Pol Abstract For the first time in history, because of digital technology, human beings are able to express themselves freely and participate in society: they have turned from passive spectators to actors. They are not silent, obedient and fearful anymore. They know what happens on planet Earth on the whole, becoming world citizens in the process. And,...
Peace on Earth at Last
Federico Mayor
Get Full Text in PDF “The time of silence, domination and fear has come to an end” Abstract Thanks to citizen power the dictum“Si vis pacem, para bellum” can now be replaced by the motto that will mark a new era: “Si vis pacem, para verbum”. Multiple factors will gradually produce a “change of attitude” at the personal level, in free citizens who are persuaded that new paths and new guidelines have to be found. Citizen power will lead the transition from an economy of speculation, production...
Urgent: A New Era, New Solutions*
Federico Mayor
Get Full Text in PDF “There is no challenge beyond the reach of the creative capacity of humanity” -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1963 Abstract “We have to invent our future. Inertia is the biggest enemy becauseit leads us to deal with new problems using old solutions.” We have to invent our future. Never before have so many things changed so quickly. In the digital era, human beings are no longer invisible, silent and obedient. As the Earth Charter says in its beginning: “We must join...
For a Universal Declaration of Democracy
Federico Mayor
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The Charter of the UN, which was adopted on behalf of the “Peoples of the United Nations”, reaffirms the “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small”… However, the term “democracy” is not used by any of its provisions. It is only in the preamble of UNESCO’s Constitution that the “democratic principles” are mentioned: “dignity, equality and mutual respect”......