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A country of many worlds, weaving a shared future

no name given · Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS) · 2026-09-24 · Haifa · Source

Knowledge · main message Community · carrying Justice · carrying

Indigenous knowledge transmission, particularly through women, is an equivalent and complementary source of education that should be connected with formal education to promote peace and development.

Her mother had never attended school and had neither read nor spoken Spanish, yet through weaving, observation, stories, work, and play she had passed on a rich store of knowledge.

The text describes a forum that brought together indigenous communities, government, science, faith communities, and civil society. At its center was the contribution of indigenous women to education, family life, community leadership, and the preservation of knowledge. Participants reflected on the Andean concept of chacha-warmi, which understands men and women as interdependent partners, and contrasted it with the Bahá'í teaching, which describes both genders as the wings of a bird. Mrs. Pachacopa reported that her mother, without formal schooling, had passed on a rich store of knowledge through weaving, stories, work, and play. A pattern could be a lesson in perseverance, the spinning of wool an opportunity to talk about an honest life. Knowledge about land, family, mathematics, and culture is thus passed from generation to generation. Other participants spoke of connecting this inherited knowledge with formal and spiritual education, especially for girls and women who had previously had little access to school.

Worldview

what this means

What, according to this text, is the root of the evil?: Hostility, hatred, the breakdown of community
Where does the evil reside?: in the economy, politics, or social structures
What helps against it?: solidarity, mutual help, belonging; insight, learning, enlightenment, right understanding
What is human being according to this text?: above all a part of a community or of creation
Where is history heading?: it is getting better, development towards the good
What does the text base its claim on?: on tradition, the fathers, an established practice; on personal experience, testimony, encounter
To whom does the text's call for devotion apply?: to every human being, regardless of faith
Where is the text's criticism directed?: the text does not criticise

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What the text calls for

vererbtes Wissen mit formeller und geistiger Bildung verbinden (social)
indigenes Wissen bewahren und weitergeben (interpersonal)

Measured

Basic stance: 1 from -2 to 2
Insistence: 2 of 3
Reach: 4 of 5
Concreteness: 3 of 3
Boundary: 0 of 3
Time: past 2, present 2, future 1

Analysed with qwen3.8-27b, version v3. The same standards apply to every tradition, see Values.

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The forums have brought together people from Indigenous communities, government, academia, faith communities, and civil society organizations—some representing sectors that have not always found it easy to enter into conversation with one another. The first forum, “Indigenous Women as Builders of Peace and Development,” explored the contribution of Indigenous women to education, family life, community leadership, and the preservation of knowledge. Participants reflected on the understanding of complementarity found in Indigenous cultures, including the Andean concept of chacha-warmi , which views men and women as interdependent partners, and its points of connection with the Bahá’í teaching that women and men are like the two wings of one bird, whose flight depends on both being equally strong. The discussion also broadened conventional ideas about education. “Education has always existed,” Mrs. Pachacopa said. Her mother had never attended school and neither read nor spoke Spanish, yet through weaving, observation, stories, work, and play, she had passed on a rich body of knowledge. A pattern can become a lesson in perseverance; spinning wool, an occasion to speak about how one lives an upright life. Knowledge of land, family, mathematics, and culture passes naturally from one generation to the next. Other participants spoke of combining this inherited knowledge with formal and spiritual education, particularly for girls and women who in previous generations often had little access to schooling.