ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Second Forum of Global Citizenship Education, and in the year of celebration of the 70th anniversary of UNESCO in solidarity with the people and governments of Mexico, France and Nigeria and so many other places in which anonymous people have fallen because of structural violence, prejudice, irrationality and violent religious fanaticism. It argues that Vive la liberte should be the motto of all people of the world struggling to build in solidarity a global citizenship education on the foundations of the Enlightenment as freedom and Ubuntu as educational ethics. Global citizenship may help global peace, planet and people through its contribution to civic engagement, in its classical dimensions of knowledge, skills and values. The questions of citizenship, democracy and multiculturalism are at the heart of the discussion worldwide on educational reform, deeply affecting the academic discourse and practice of education.
