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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE |
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| SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES TO DEAL WITH THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE |
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| CELEBRATE THE DIVERSITY AND DISCOVER THE INTERCONECTION OF ALL FORMS OF LIFE AND ALL HUMAN BEINGS |
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| WORLD MOVEMENT TO SET THE BASIS, VISION AND VALUES, FOR A GLOBAL SOCIETY |
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| ENVIRONMENTS FOR DIALOGUE, INSIGHTS, CONSENSUS FORMATION |
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| SUPPORT THE CREATION OF WORLD LEARNING AND ACTION COMMUNITIES |
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| DEVELOPING EDUCATION FOR PEACE PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS, MEDIA, COMMUNITIES. |
GLOBAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS
To build a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence is the great challenge humanity is facing today. That includes changes in human relations in a deeper and broader scale. It touches our knowledge and expertise in dealing with the multidimensionality of our being and with the global interconnectedness of our experience.
PLANETARY SOCIETY
The movement to change the basis of our civilization is a global movement searching for the foundations, new visions and values, capable of providing support to the emerging planetary society.
DECADE FOR THE CULTURE OF PEACE
MACRO TRANSITIONS
The United Nations have declared the years 2001-2010 the decade for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, program under the responsibility of UNESCO. Scholars, researchers and leaders of many civil society organizations are also conceiving this period as the time for a Macro Transition in our civilization.
THE ROLE OF EDUCATION
Education, involving schooling, communication, cultural production, family and community development conceived as a broad, pervasive and continuous social process has a central role to play in this transition
EMPOWERMENT
The Education for Peace Globalnet is evolving as a world community for learning and action. Its practical objective is the empowerment of each of its participants through the development of knowledge and the exemplarity of their action.
INTERACTIONS
It promotes personal and virtual interaction and cooperation among institutions involved with Education for Peace programs and projects.
CONSENSUS FORMATION
It is designed to work as an open space for dialogue, explorations, insights, consensus formation that could help to enhance the process of change humanity is in need of
PLANETARY CITIZENSHIP
The 2002 edition of the Education for Peace International Meeting is dedicated to the construction of a Culture of Peace and the development of a Planetary Citizenship. It will happen in São Paulo, Brazil from October 7th. to 11th.
NEW BASIS
For this gathering we are inviting individuals who are involved in significant projects on Education for Peace considered broadly as a planetary process committed to build the basis of a new, healthier and happier civilization.
200 EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Two hundred innovative projects on schools, teachers development, communication, cultural production, family and community will be reported on the three first days. A Learning Book will be produced from the presentations and discussions.
CULTURE OF PEACE AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Consensus Formation on principles, guidelines and institutional action will be the focus of the last two days of the 2002 Meeting. The role of culture and education for the Global Governance will be the central topic for the main speeches and panels on media, world religions, international organizations and educational institutions.
