Islam And The West, the new book from Virtue Ethics Foundation co-founder, Ali Azam, is out now and available on Amazon. Muslims in the West are being perceived as ‘others’ and a barrier to modernity. The effects of this in recent years have...
Read moreWhy human dignity is so important for students – and how you can help!
There are so many pressing issues in the UK today – racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny, knife and gun crimes. Even more significantly, there seems to be a lack of concern about others, due to...
Read moreWhy the current inclusion of character education in the Ofsted framework is insufficient
At the Virtue Ethics Foundation, we believe both the purpose of character education itself, and the purpose behind advocating character education need to be appropriately conceived and clearly identified. We take a philosophical position that we...
Read moreThe universal language of sociojusticism
The divide and schisms in the political spheres have all become but a source of fragmenting humanity. There is the left and the right; liberalism and conservatism; modernism and postmodernism; individualism and collectivism...
Read moreIs there such a thing as human dignity in 2021?
The second half of the 20th century, by most accounts, is remembered as a period of hope in which profound lessons were learned with a deep sense of humility. This drove real human progression, particularly in the endeavours of the...
Read moreCan virtue ethics help society in 2021?
In a previous blog, we discussed what ‘character education’ is – a nurturing process that aims to support and develop young people’s good human traits, such as: respect empathy honesty gratitude courage forgiveness patience compassion and...
Read moreWhat do we really mean by character education – and why is it so important?
Reading, writing and arithmetic – all vitally important skills for our children to master and taught consciously and subconsciously from a very early age. However, the teaching of qualities such as compassion, courage, fairness, and respect...
Read moreHuman dignity petition to tackle homophobia, racism, sexism and Islamophobia gathers momentum
UK Joins International Community In Calls To Stop Persecution Of Bahá’ís in Ivel, Iran
Humanity is an art, character is the key to it
VEF Takes Part In The First International Youth Forum In Abu Dhabi
The World Muslim Communities Council, WMCC, hosted over 250 delegates from non-Muslim countries at its first International Youth Forum last year, on December 2019. The theme of the forum was based on “Building Future Leaders: Commitment...
Read moreUK Faith Leaders Urge Home Office To Halt Evictions Of Refused Asylum Seekers.
Representatives of various faith groups, including Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu, have written an open letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, calling for the government to reconsider its plan start evicting thousands of refused asylum...
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