Greetings and welcome to the Aramid Website! We are delighted to see you as a part of our global community of educators and educated. As you browse through our website, feel free to discover, interact, and collaborate with us to create something uniquely wonderful. We are still in our infant stage, this being our second year of existence. At the end you may leave us a message that will help us realize our dream faster.

Aramid is an Ilocano word for Action. The Ilocanos  are the third largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group that reside mostly within the Ilocos Region, in the northwestern seaboard of Luzon, Philippines. True to its name, Aramid conference is a call for global action. It is a call for the people of the world to appreciate the power of working together. It brings together students and educators from ten carefully selected diverse universities. These universities are not just great fountains of knowledge in themselves but they also cater for a microcosm of the human race. The demographics they represent range from the native American groups of Arizona, to the diverse populations of Florida and South Carolina, to the various Filipino and Indonesia groups of SE Asia, to diverse groups of African people from East and western parts of the huge continent. It also include the original custodians of philosophy – the Greeks. Literally every segment of the global population is represented here. Coming together in this conference is a way of expressing our insatiable desire of internationalism and globalization.

Aramid governing board is driven by the philosophy that if we bring our youth together, they will most likely learn to appreciate each other and treat one another as equal members of human race and nothing else. We are bound together by our firm resolve that the journey towards global stability and appreciation for one another must start, like any other journey, with one small step. Small as it may be, it is a step in the direction of enhancing world peace. Through the sharing of our research from different parts of the world, we declare our mutually symbiotic responsibility to one another regardless of our backgrounds.

Our sharing of knowledge will help us all to understand and appreciate each other. This can only be achieved through education. We are therefore eagerly looking forward to learning from nearly one hundred presentations from students living thousands of miles apart but brought together by their passion for sharing their research and class projects. Unlike in other conferences, their educators will sit back and enjoy learning from their students!

Peace!

Peter Ndiang’ui, Ed.D, CFLE

Founding Co-chair, Aramid