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DIFFERENCE AS DESTABILISING FACTOR 149(Brasil), not to protest but to suggest reactionary measures and proposesolutions in order to make, at last, another world possible.The violence associated with some —indeed a minority— of thesegroups (breaking of shop windows, etc.) is criticised and their delegitimizationis aimed at, but they are not terrorists (shots in the back of theneck, savage attacks).They have great weaknesses and challenges to overcome, but theyalso have some virtues:—Their central goal is that society should recover its leading role.—They are not a leap into the void. They maintain multiple andvaried relationships with left-wing parties and with sectors of theworkers´movement.—The movements have transnational networks in which both theNorth and the South are represented. The rights of the Southand those of future generations are their most central claims.—They contribute a perspective of global responsibility vis-à-vispartial responsibilities.In this first bloc of the Seminar (“Europe Seen from the Perspectiveof Education”) and even more so in the third session on implications inthe educational spheres, we cannot obviate some of the educationalchallenges deriving from globalization. They are synthetically thefollowing, alongside some of their characteristics 7 :—Population changes. Education for senior citizens, and Educationfor Citizenship and Multiculturalism.—Assertion of nationalisms. To advance in multiple identities, feelingsof belonging and education for inclusion.—USA´s hegemonic situation. Interculturalism, acknowledgementand Peace and Non-violence Education.—Expansion of supranational entities. Student exchanges. Recognitionof qualifications. Citizenship. Co-operative learning. Competencein communication and interrelation. Solidarity.—No states but institutions: IMF, WB, WTO. Active and responsiblecitizenship. Conscious consumers.—Increase of inequalities. Education as a priority. Fight againstinequality and exclusion through social citizenship and non-sexisteducation.7Massot, Inés. Professor at Barcelona University. Jornadas sobre Multiculturalidadde Fundación Intered. Santiago de Compostela, 2002.