Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Strategies and Practices in a Globalizing World

Anastasia Nikolopoulou is currently the Dean of the School of Humanities and an associate professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus, where she teaches courses in theatre and cultural studies. She received her Ph.D from Cornell University. She co-edited (with Michael Hays), Melodrama: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre (St Martin’s Press, 1996, 1999) and (with Savas Patsalides) Melodrama: Ideological and Aesthetic Transformations (University Studio Press, in Greek, 2001). In addition to her ongoing research on 19th century theatre and culture, she has a growing interest in matters related to education and issues of peace, particularly in the ideas of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Daisaku Ikeda—whose work she has reviewed in the Greek-Cypriot Press. She is the recipient of two UNESCO Participation Program Awards (2007 and 2009) that enabled her to organize interconnected conferences on education for sustainable development in Cyprus.

Taisha Abraham is an associate Professor, Delhi University. She received her Ph.D from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her publications include a critical edition of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (2008), Introducing Postcolonial Theories: Issues and Debates (2007), Women and the Politics of Violence (edited, 2002), Feminist Theory and Modern Drama (edited, 1998), and Female Empowerment: Impact of Literacy in Jaipur District of Rajasthan (co-authored, 1995). She is at present the general editor of Shakti series that focus on global issues and women in South Asia.

Farid Mirbagheri completed his secondary and tertiary education in the UK. He graduated in International Relations from Keele University, England, where he also earned his Ph.D in the same field. He currently holds the Dialogue Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Nicosia. Editor of the Cyprus Review, an internationally refereed journal by the University of Nicosia and the University of Indianapolis for seven years, he now serves on its advisory board. He is also an associate editor of Global Dialogue. He has written Cyprus and International Peacemaking (UK: Hurst & Co and USA: Routledge, 1998). His other publications Historical Dictionary of Cyprus (Scarecrow Press) and War & Peace in Islam (Palgrave) is due out in 2009 and 2010 respectively.