As educators we influence the new generations that, in two decades, will be in charge of World affairs. I address our responsibility, as Mathematics Educators, in preparing them to shape a new civilization, in which social justice and Peace with dignity for all prevail. This needs an universal ethics synthesized as 1. respect for the other/the different; 2.solidarity with the other/the different; 3.cooperation with the other/the different.

History tell us that Mathematics is the dorsal spine of Modern Civilization, hence Mathematics and Mathematics Education have everything to do with the State of the World. In an era of increasing globalization in all sectors of society, the ethics of respect, solidarity and cooperation is absolutely necessary.

In this talk I will discuss why and how the universal ethics of respect, solidarity and cooperation, synthesized above, is intrinsic to the Program Ethnomathematics. Through Ethnomathematics we may be effectively contributing to achieve social justice and peace with dignity for all.