Democracy and Peace options for Adult Educators

Abstract

When the recent Gulf crisis finally end inevitably escalated into armed conflict of unprecedented proportions, and with equally unprecedented consequences on living things and the environment which sustains life, where were the adult educators, and how loud and resounding were their voices against this human arrogance and folly? Were the adult educators active in the movement against armed conflict? Were they meeting in their learning groups and forums, small and large, and lobbying their legislators and decision-makers? Were they writing; frantically to the local and national newspapers and using whatever other media, to share their apprehensions with others, and to educate others of the impending catastrophe? Or were we mute observers of a tragic situation unfolding before our very eyes or were we trying to run away to safe places, like the Osbornes during the 1961 missile crisis?