In view of the increasing vulnerability of contemporary
societies to a broad range of social risks, including the
possibility of total human extinction, the human rights regime needs to incorporate a broader concept of
global human security.
The letter below written by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, professor of
global education at the University of Oulu, exemplifies the urgency for education to enlarge
possibilities for thinking and relating to each other
in complex, uncertain, plural and deeply unequal
societies.