Elizabeth Debold

  • Global Education

    How do we keep new ventures in global education from being new forms of Western hegemony?

  • TIme to be Human

    Could the purpose of feminism be as much about men as women?

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Media & Writing

It's hard to keep your head straight and wits about you as so much is changing and yet so much more needs to happen to create a new culture. This collection of my writing--key magazine articles, my first book, and research reports on girls' development--offers my best attempts to make sense of where we are and how we can take real steps forward.

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Current Projects

My current interest is in creating, to paraphrase Habermas, forms of communication without domination, particularly across cultures: One World in Dialogue. Through bringing together people from a diversity of cultures on this planet, we hope to create global relationships to inspire global change.

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Engagement

You can sign up here to be part of the Global Dialogue Lab, an open forum on the changing nature of making change.


MOST RECENT POSTS

From pop culture to politics, sexuality to spirituality, whatever and what-have-you, I'm commenting on it, hashing out my own thinking on the upward trends and troubles of our times. Please join in with a comment!

Beyond Polarity: A New Encounter between Women and Men

The day after my very first appearance on New York cable TV—it was the 80s, so cable was new and small—I got...

What Makes a Truly Global Education?

In the middle of nothing—that is, nothing but sand stretching in every direction—there is a peculiar oasis. It has huge palm trees with thick...

Time to Be Human: Gender Liberation and the Creation of a New Culture

The United Nations declared 1976-1985 the Decade of Women, which created an international consensus on the importance of women’s political and social equality. The...