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“Global Security through Universal Education: TheUN and the UNU Forging a Partnership To RemoveNot Just the Scourge of War But Also the Misery ofIgnorance”Sujeet Samaddar“Education is a fundamental human right. It is the key to sustainabledevelopment and peace and stability within and among countries,”Education For All: Meeting Our Collective CommitmentsWorld Education ForumDakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000IntroductionIf there is one feature that makes the 21 st Century completely different, from allthe others that have gone past, it is the uniqueness of the Globalisation phenomena.Globalisation, with its attendant benefits and myriad problems, is indeed a novelexperience for the entire human race: be they be residents of a smart suburb inTokyo or a remote village in Timbuktu. The traumatic events of 911 amply illustratethe unique dichotomy of the new millennium bursting to the open all the diverse andopposing traits that charaterise our fickle world. The uncomfortable realities thatwe face today are the simultaneous coexistence of liberalism with fundamentalism,freedom of movement with being hostage to terror, wealth with poverty,understanding with incomprehension, and above all the harsh truth that whilst loveabounds hate still abides.Globalisation holds both promise and peril. The openness and interconnectivitythat globalisation provides has ended the seclusion of the ignorant from the92