Colleagues, Would 'accomodation' in its wider context constitute a value? Most of the human rights abuses and intolerance is all about our lack of capacity to accomodate a particular aspect of an individual, circumstance or situation. I don't know if am making sense here? Language barrier perhaps - or is it language 'accomodation'? Sande Olocho Kenya --- Michael Kerr <hr-education@lists.hrea.org> wrote: Wim et al - I'll try to look for a more fully elaborated list - but just aquick response to your query. I would certainly take issue with your havingincluded "tolerance" in your short-list of values, let alone oneto which we should collectively aspire!? Though through much ofour multilateral work we're very much saddled with "tolerance"being articulated as a value or principle of merit - I believe it is soonly because that is the barest mimimum to which diverse state-partiescould agree - and found therefore across an all too broad a range ofnational and international human rights and related instruments!! Anywhere "tolerance" of diversity is named as a value,objective or goal - we in fact should aspire to "awareness, understanding, appreciation and welcoming" of that diversity. We should in fact be working at every opportunity to expunge this terminology whenever and wherever it may be found !! We "tolerate" things that we'd rather not have anything to do with - given the choice - but that we in fact have no choice but to cope with andaccept - certainlynot a very healthy and/or sustainable position!! My quick thought - Michael. ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======= Send mail intended for the list to < >. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/ **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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