INTERCULTURAL

LEADERS

Maria del Carmen Patricia Morales

Mentors

Patricia Morales studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and Goethe University in Frankfurt. She got her Ph.D in 1997 at the University of Buenos Airres with her thesis Derechos humanos y etica de la responsabilidad solidaria. She is visiting professor at University of Leuven (Louvain) for seminars on Latin America, and researcher on issues of ethics, human rights, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue. She also collaborates with the University Blas Pascal in Argentina. At Tilburg University (1998-2000), she became involved in the Earth Charter process. She has been coordinator of various international conferences, as A Global Ethics for a Humane World (2001-2002) with the chairmanship of Justice Richard Goldstone and Ruud Lubbers. She has participated in the coordination of the Opening Conference of the UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education (2002) and in the edition of the Water Wisdom Book (2005). She is editor of Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Global Interdependence (1994), Towards Global Human Rights (1996), and Pueblos indigenas, derechos humanos e interdependencia global (2001). She collaborates actively with UNESCO, UNAOC and members of several universities,and NGOs of different countries, being an active member of ARABEL and APAER, for supporting educational and other similar projects in Argentina. She is the president of Terra Curanda www.terracuranda.org