Director, Thomas Clough Daffern B.A. (Hons) D.Sc. (Hon)
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There has never been a more urgent need for objective, concerned and informed study and research into the fundamental issues affecting life on our planet: peace, ecology, human rights, social justice, prosperity for all based on sustainable economic practices, the cleaning up of the pollution left by the era of nuclear industry and out of date industrial technology, the revitalisation of our communities, the ending of the despair caused by decades of neglect and social deprivation, the tackling of global problems such as poverty, unemployment, famine, health problems, racism, international crime and corruption, spiritual hunger, bio-technologies, war... all these problems seem to be getting worse, not better. Conventional academia has adopted the model of ethical indifference, of moral objectivity and scientific neutralism. The Green University, by contrast, is definitely committed. We are pro peace, pro social justice, pro global sustainable prosperity, pro action and theory combined, but also pro excellence in academic achievement and research. We believe that since knowledge is the route to power, it must become the means of empowerment for ordinary people worldwide as well as global elites. Whilst pursing the highest standards of academic excellence and professionalism, we at the same time advocate a profound ethical engagement and commitment to the amelioration of human suffering, violence, fear and ignorance on earth.
The Global Green University has come into being as a result of a Feasibility
Study conducted at the University of London into establishing a new Institute
of Peace Studies. After an exhaustive study of several years, in which
a global survey of education for peace and human rights and social and
ecological justice was undertaken, with innumerable leading educators
from all over the world consulted, it was discovered that conventional
academic structures are still hardly ready to embrace the radical educational
agenda which it is felt necessary to help save the planet from war, violence
and ecological destruction. A high percentage of official higher education
funding in Britain, the USA and worldwide comes from Ministries of Defence,
whose total expenditures are enormous. How then can we think through a
non-violent world if our very institutions are clouded by military interests?
The GGU will be totally free of all such funding and will place research
into peace studies, conflict resolution and mediation at the very core
of its own research agenda. We believe that the time has come for the
leading intellectuals of the planet to reclaim from the educational bureaucrats
an autonomous and independent academic space for free and responsible
research and study, beyond the funding constraints of the status quo and
narrow minded corporate and political interests with their emphasis on
short term profits at the expense of intellectual, moral and institutional
integrity. The GGU runs it work as a voluntary educational charity, in
which the priority the love of wisdom, and the work of individual and
planetary healing. As such we are reliant on donations and tuition fees,
which are scaled according to the individual circumstances of
students.
To be accepted as a Research Fellow / Student of the GGU requires demonstration
of sufficient commitment and ability. As a rule we expect students to
have obtained appropriate University entrance examination passes, but
life experience and genuine motivation are also taken into account. Currently
the GGU tuition is only available for higher research programmes involving
guided independent study on thesis topics negotiated between the tutors
and students concerned. Research can cover all areas of academic work,
with support given to topics which break new ground in terms of methodology
and content. Tutorial classes and seminars connected with the GGU also
take place at various locations in the UK according to need, including
at present Wales, Birmingham, London, Brighton.
Students are required to register by completing the enclosed registration
form. The annual fee for Registered Student Status with the GGU is £50
(10% payable in advance and the balance on completion of registration
process), which entitles students to attend classes, access the large
reference library of the GGU which they can visit for study purposes,
and access tutors for three termly private tutorials per year to discuss
their research work in depth.
To register as a Research Fellow (Faculty) of the GGU involves initially
the same process as for Registered Student Status, and is available for
independent qualified academics or academic staff or postgraduate researchers
at other universities or academic institutions in harmony with the aims
and objectives of the GGU and who wish to contribute to the research programmes
of the Global Green University. Research Fellows are expected to contribute
to the academic life of the University generally by representing it in
their respective countries and institutions and by contributing their
thoughts and ideas in the form of research papers from time to time by
mutual agreement. Teaching programmes can also be initiated for the GGU
by Research Fellows providing certain criteria are met and provided the
teaching rationale and currcula are transparently approved by peer assessment.
The University is structured according to Nine Faculties, named after
the Nine Muses of Ancient Philosophy, as a conscious re-invocation of
the wisdom teachings of the classical world:
CALLIOPE: Faculty of Green Politics, Ecological Economics and Social
Sciences
CLIO: Faculty of Education, History and Humanities
ERATO: Faculty of Psychology, Love and Consciousness
EUTERPE: Faculty of Visual Arts, Media &
Architecture
MELPOMENE: Faculty of Peace, Justice and
Law
POLYHYMNIA: Faculty of Philosophy & Religious
Studies
TERPSICHORE: Faculty of Musical Arts, Dance
& Theatre
THALIA: Faculty of Comparative Literature
and Languages
URANIA: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Medicine
& Ecology
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