ABSTRACT

This chapter engages the ethical ground of difference for peace, the right to philosophy, and the future of education. The ethics of deconstruction and its incursion into the logic of the cosmopolitical will broach the question of human rights, peace, and education to rethink the certainty of where ought it take place. Derrida has provided a way to begin reassessing and reaffirming the responsibilities of UNESCO in relation to the demands and conditions of a new international by opening up the logic of its existence as a world institution concerned with the problem of global education to the question of human rights. UNESCO facilitates the exchange of a tradition of knowledge and knowing as articulated by a universal archive, mediates for the terms of its reading as production and reproduction, and actualized the cultural domains of its power as global narrative. UNESCO as an international institution is founded on the principles of European philosophy.