Youth and Globalization

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Youth and Globalization By Dr. Mahmoud Al
Sarhan Amman Jordan 2005
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Royal Quotations " Youth are our
Weapon for the Future, therefore it is
imperative to launch their potential and direct
it towards public national service, and organize
it in group frame works to include concerns of
our country . The change which we aspire can
only be achieved through mobilizing youth And
listening to their views as they are the pillars
of tomorrow and the substance of change. But
most of all We wish to see a national youth
strategy that ensure addressing youth issues as
our national priority - HM. King
Abdullah II -
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General Ideas

National Youth strategy is a national document
which national institutions are committed to
implement .
National Youth strategy is a response to the
directives of His Majesty King Abdullal II,
which called for the needs and Contributions of
Jordanian Youth to become a national priority .

National youth strategy formulation process
Utilized scientific participatory and
cooperative approach, involving government,
private sector, voluntary organizations and
international agencies.


National Youth strategy formulation involved a
process that listened to the voices of youth .
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National youth strategy is built on the expressed
needs and aspiration of Youth A total of nearly
90.000 Jordanian young people contributed their
ideas and opinions.


National Youth strategy identifies and explores
nine central themes that impinge strongly on the
lives of Jordanian youth.
National youth strategy is unique in the Arab
world- Jordan is the First country to produce
national youth strategy that outlines a
comprehensive and long term vision and plan for
the development of its youth .

Youth Definition
National youth strategy is directed towards young
Jordanian males and females who are aged 12 to 30
years old . these are the years that most people
move from childhood to adulthood , from
dependence to independence, and this group
represent about 40 of the population of Jordan
approximately 2.2 million in numbers .

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Key Youth Demographics
Jordanian society is very youthful in nature .
those under 30 years old represent 74 of the
entire population .

Youth from ( 15-24 years old ) represent 23 .

Key Hopes and Aspirations
Jordanian youth are generally optimistic. four
out of five Jordanian youth hop firmly that their
future will be better than the present . However
, young females have, less positive expectations
than young males.

According to the National youth studies., youth
priorities in life are dominated by educational
aspirations. 55 of young people indicated that
their main concern was to complete their
education at all levels.

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Rationale of the National Youth Strategy .
Youth both male and female represent the largest
segment of Jordanian society , and face the
greatest challenges in terms of issues like
employment. Health and globalization .. etc.


National youth strategy is important as it
provides youth and all agencies and groups
committed to their development and Fulfillment
with -

• A common vision.
• A set of priorities achieved through consensus.
• A national frame works for action .
• A statement of values and guiding principles.
• An instrument to raise the profile of youth .
• A declaration of the relationship between youth
  and national goals.
• A catalyst for communication, cooperation, and
  coordination and .
• A tool to benchmark and evaluate youth program
  relevance and
• achievement .

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Guiding principles of the National Youth strategy
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In formulating the National youth strategy for
Jordan, the following guiding principles were
recognized as fundamental -

• Jordan first reinforcing sense of loyalty,
  Unity and belonging to the Home
• land , its Constitution and leadership.
• Participation actively involving youth within
  all aspects of community and
• national life, and as such have a role and
  responsibility in making the
• decisions which affect their lives .
• Gender Equality ensuring justice , balance and
  equal opportunity for all
• youth both male and female .

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• Representative building upon a deep
  understanding of the realities,
• potential, strengths, issues and aspiration of
  Jordanian youth .
• Access enabling access to appropriate programs
  and services by all
• Jordanian youth regardless of age, gender,
  physical abilities, geographic
• location , social, Cultural or economic
  circumstances.
• Collaborative ownership seeks the mobilization
  and participation of all
• stakeholders government agencies, civil
  society, national and international
• institutions, private sector, and youth in
  designing and implementing the
• strategy , and maximizing collaboration and
  coordination efforts.

The vision statement
Raising and developing Jordanian youth who are
aware of themselves and their abilities, loyal to
their country and proactively take part in its
progress and development , able to deal with the
variables and development of this age in
confident, aware and steadfast manner , within a
secure and supporting environment .
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National youth strategy goals.

Provide and organized frame work for the efforts
of those concerned with the care and development
of Jordanian youth .
Enhancing youth development in away that reflects
the uniqueness of Jordan .


Seeking to unify the efforts undertaken in this
area, and setting the work priorities in order to
reach a common vision for national youth
development .
National youth strategy themes
In order to achieve the strategy goals . Nine
themes have been identified included ICT and
globalization.
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Critical issues included in national Youth
Strategy in Jordan in general And Particular in
the ICT and Globalization theme.
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- Encouraging, supporting, and efficient
utilization of youth initiatives in ICT.
- ICT and chances it could create for youth with
special needs.
- ICT and internet effective handling (internet
market, .. Etc).
Information Technology and Globalization

This theme focuses on issues and strategies
that will enable Jordanian youth to
effectively benefit from national investment
information technology and global opportunities
available through ICT .
Strategic objective.

Harness ICT as a tool to empower Jordanian youth
to lead more prosperous and meaningful lives.
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Operational objectives

1- promote awareness through education,
electronic games and the media of the
importance, uses and benefits of ICT. 2- Develop
and promote trading and employment opportunities
available through ICT. 3- Continually
upgrade national and community capacity regarding
ICT infrastructure and opportunities. 4-
Broaden the understanding of Jordanian youth
about the concepts, challenges and
opportunities relating to Globalization. 5-
Enabling youth to benefit from the national
investment in ICT, enabling them to deal with
globalization, so as it benefits and develops our
nation.
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The concept of Globalization and its development

• The concept of globalization emerged in the
  period between the latter half
• of the 19th century and the initial years of
  the 20th century (1850-1914) at that
• time, the concept of globalization mainly
  concentrated on the aspect of
• Money, which in its turn could be seen in two
  dimensions, first, the
• multiplication of international trade and
  second the rising tide of migrant
• populations.

• The crucial element in the globalization process,
  namely the modernization
• of trade through increasing its speed and
  capacity.

Globalization what is it .. ?

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People around the globe are more connected to
each other than ever before Information, money
flow more quickly than ever. Goods sand services
produced in one part of the world International
travel is more frequent. International
communication is common place this phenomenon has
been titled globalization.
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The Era of globalization is fast becoming the
preferred term for describing the currents
times. Just as the Depression, the cold war Era,
the space age, and the Roaring 20s are used to
describe particular periods of history,
globalization describes the political, economic,
and cultural atmosphere of today.
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Globalization is most often used to describe the
growing integration of economics worldwide
through increases in trade, investment flows, and
technology transfer.
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Globalization is new era replaces cold war and
space age.
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Some body called it a big merging of
everything, a single culture, a big openness, the
Internet .. Instant communication.
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Globalization is a process that has been going on
for the past 5000 years, but it has significantly
accelerated since the demise of the Soviet Union
1991 .
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Elements of globalization include trans border
capital, labor, management, news, images and data
flows.
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The main engines of globalization are the
transnational corporations (TNCs), transnational
media organizations (TMCs), intergovernmental
organization (IGOs), non governmental
organization (NGOs), and alternative government
organization (AGOs).
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Globalization is being defined differently and
has been one of the most used and abused
terminologies of the 1999s. It speaks of
transition towards a global community with common
norms and an institutional framework that
facilitates international cooperation.
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Globalization is a free flow of capital,
technology information and people. But free flow
of the people is neither as fast nor easy as
goods and capital do. Barriers are being erected
to the free movements of labour of a time when
the world labour market is expanding and creating
more demands for labour.
Globalization Good or Bad?

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Globalization is not a phenomenon. It is not just
some passing trend. Today, it is an overarching
international system shaping the domestic
politics and foreign relations of virtually every
country, and we need to understand it as such.

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Globalization is much like fire. Fire itself is
neither good nor bad. Used properly, it can cook
food, sterilize equipment, form iron, and heat
our homes. Used carelessly, fire can destroy
lives, towns and forests in an instant.
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Globalization can be incredibly empowering and
incredibly coercive. It can democratize
opportunity and democratize panic.
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Globalization has dangers and an ugly dark side.
But it can also bring tremendous opportunities
and benefits.
Globalization dimensions

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There are at least five different dimensions of
globalization that need to be distinguished

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Economic globalization (money markets,
multi-national corporations).

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Political globalization (international
organization, world government).

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Common ecological constraints( the recent
awareness that global warming and pollution).

• -

Cultural values and institutions( ethics,
spirituality and religion).

• -

Globalization of communication (the mass media,
the internet).
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Modelski said globalization is a process along
for dimensions economic globalization, formation
of world opinion, democratization and political
globalization.
Impact of Globalization

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The impact of globalization on the Arab world
culture is not a matter of simple statistics and
reports. It is, in essence, a diagnostic line of
analysis to consider its pluses and minuses on
the Arab general public.
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Globalization consists of social, economic and
political adjustments that people may embrace to
epitomize their culture and incorporate it with
the world. It is a concept that has its economic,
social and political roots and consequences.

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Globalization is a vital process toward
transferring knowledge and education to the
world. It still has its negative effects on most
cultures and civilizations. Its impacts of
cultures, in this case the Arabic culture, is
relatively controversial.
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From a humanist perspective, globalization
entails both positive and negative consequences
it is both narrowing and widening the income gaps
among and with nations, intensifying and
diminishing political domination and homogenizing
and pluralizing cultural identities.

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Many nationalists and cultural trustees of the
Arab world, for instance, condemn the influences
of globalization on their culture.
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Actually, the magnification of global media net
works and satellite communication technologies
enable some dominant power to have a truly global
reach.
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The phenomenon of globalization saying it brings
up many opportunities to learn from each other,
and to benefit from a wider range of choices, but
it can also seem very threatening.
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Globalization has a mixture of positive and
negative impacts, with the positive ones
moderately out weighing the negative ones. A
slight majority or plurality sees globalization
in general as more positive than negative, though
a strong majority is optimistic that
globalization will be positive in the future.

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Globalization can generate cultural
homogenization. Our community and our identity,
our culture and our traditions are challenged in
this digital age. Some even feel that
globalization will turn people into spiritless
robots.
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In PIPAs October 1991 Poll, respondents were
asked to rate globalization using a scale with
zero being completely negative, ten being
completely positive and five being equally
positive and negative. The average response was
6.04. When asked to rate globalization overall,
a slight majority or plurality tends to give it
positive rating. In PIPAs Poll, a modest
majority of 53 rated it above 5, while only
15 rated it below 5. 30 rated it 5, equally
positive and negative.
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• According to questionnaire 10by international
  trade in general
• Do you think globalization is good or bad for
  

Dec 1999 Apr 2000 The Us economy?
61 64 Good
29 28 Bad
American companies?
65 63 Good
25 29 Bad
Consumers like you?
65 68 Good
25 23 Bad
Providing jobs and strengthening the economy in poor countries?
70 75 Good
19 16 Bad
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Creating jobs in the US?
46 50 Good
45 42 Bad
The environment?
38 45 Good
44 38 Bad
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What Globalization means to Americans?

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70 of sample were asked to say what it meant to
them. In various ways, virtually all responses
described globalization as growing
interconnectedness of the world.
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As one respondent said it means weve become a
more global society, economically and
politically, so decisions being made here affect
other areas and other governments decisions
affect us.
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Said another whatever happens in one country
affects all countries.
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