The Earth Charter and the Search for Humanity's Shared Values

Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Feb 24, 2015 1:51:00 PM


In the taped interview Mirian also shares the Earth Charter's partnership with the Paulo Freire Institute in Brazil and a four-year program with La Reforma, the largest prison in Costa Rica. Finally Mirian discusses how her involvement with the Earth Charter has transformed her and her view of humanity. 

"We often close our hearts our minds eyes and ears to people unlike us and there is no connection. There is no connection because we don’t know. We put up walls." -Mirian Vilela

 


Mirian Vilela Executive Director of Earth Charter InternationalMirian is the Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat and the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at UPEACE, Mirian has been working with the Earth Charter Initiative since early 1996. She is coordinating the newly established UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development with the Earth Charter. Over the years she has lead and facilitated numerous international workshops, courses and seminars on values and principles for sustainability. Prior to her work with the Earth Charter, Mirian worked for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) for two years in preparation of the 1992 UN Earth Summit and a year at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). She actively participated in the 2002 World Summit of Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, and the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development/Rio+20. She is a member of the UNESCO Expert Reference Group for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). Mirian holds a B.Sc. in International Trade and a Master´s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was an Edward Mason Fellow. She is originally from Brazil.

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