DEFINITION
It is a way of living that recognizes our
world is an increasingly complex web of
connections and interdependence.
It is the moral and ethical disposition that
can guide the individual understandings
or the context of local and global groups,
and remind them of their responsibilities
within different communities.
CITIZENSHIP
LOCAL CITIZENSHIP – being a member of
a specific city, town, or province which
gives a person various right and
obligations.
NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP – refers to the
rights and obligations that Canadians
have because they live in Canada based
on Canada‘s tradition of democracy and
respect for human dignity and freedom.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Responsibility to understand one’s own perspective and
the perspective of others on global issues
2. Responsibility to respect the principle of cultural diversity
3. Responsibility to make connections and build relationships
with people from other countries and cultures
4. Responsibility to understand the ways in which peoples
and countries of the world are interconnected and
interdependent
5. Responsibility to understand global issues
6. Responsibility to advocate for greater international cooperation with other
nations
7. Responsibility for advocating for the implementation of
international agreements, conventions, treaties related to global issues.
8. Responsibility for advocating for more effective global equity and justice in
each of the value domains of the world community
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
RESPONSIBILITIES
Difference between globalization and global citizenship
Globalization Global citizenship
- about the flow of - driven by identity and
products, capitalization, values
people and also - about shared values
information. and responsibility
Essential values of Global Citizenship:
a.Diversity
b.Interdependence
c.Perspective
d.Empathy
A Global Citizen is someone who:
is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as a world citizen
respect and values diversity
has an understand of how the world works
is outraged by social injustice
participates in the community at a range of levels, from the local to the global
is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place
takes responsibility for their actions
ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS OF GLOBAL
CITIZEN
1. A global citizen has the wisdom to perceived the
interconnected of all life and living.
2. The courage not to fear or deny difference: but to
respect and strive to understand people of
different cultures, and to grow from encounters
with them.
3. The compassion to maintain an imaginative
empathy that reaches beyond one’s immediate
surroundings and extend to those suffering in
distant places. (Daisaku Ikeda)
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!