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68 REfLECTIvE COsMOPOLITANIsM 7. Do we have the obligation to live in the country where we were born? 8. Do we have the right to live in a country where we were not born? 9. Do we have the obligation to do so? 10. Do we have the right to think differently? And the obligation of thinking diffe- rently? 11. Do we have the right to behave differently? Do we have the obligation to do so? 12. What is a right? 13. What is an obligation? Activity/Exercise: The Declaration of Human Rights We generally accept that Human Rights go hand in hand with certain obligations. We cannot speak about rights without speaking about obligations. Maite, the camp instructor who works at Hanadi’s summer camp, says something similar at the end of the chapter when she says: “Rights, obligations… Life is full of rights that imply certain obligations and responsibilities (…)”. She is referring to Article 29 of the Decla- ration which says: “Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.” However, the Declaration makes no further reference to the obligations of mankind towards the community. In order to re- search the idea of obligations, we suggest that the students try to discover which obli- gation or obligations are connected to each of the rights that appear in the Declaration. This exercise can be done as an activity: • Have four groups working on different rights, and then each group will consi- der the obligations related to each right. • Each group will create a very short play or a statue (even a photo, but with them as part of the statue or the photo) representing that obligation. • Then, in order (one right for each group), they tell the others the right and re- present the obligation. The rest of the groups will have to guess. Episode 2: A show for the local festival Leading Idea 1: Individual/Community. Cooperation You can find further resources on the concept of individual/community” in the manual to Chris- tian, episode 8, leading idea 1, discussion plan “what makes a good team?”, and “the way to build and maintain the team”; and in episode 13, leading idea 1. We see teams as a sum of all the members’ abilities. There is an exercise here about the need for cordiality and flexibility in forming and taking care of a team. While the focus in Christian is on a football team and the focus in Hanadi is on a group of girls and boys from camp who organize a show, we think that the exercises from Christian can be easily adapted to the situation in Hanadi. Leading Idea 2: Reciprocity and acknowledgement Reciprocity is the action derived from the relation of mutual correspondence between two people or two entities, which is based on the ethical notions of justice, equity, or mutual acknowledgement. Reciprocal action seeks to establish a balance, or to compensate for instability caused by a previous action.