BACKGROUND/ISSUES PAPERS
Participants at the Conference are invited to submit articles and papers addressing our Conference Theme ("a statement of principles on key aspects of peace education which will provide guidance towards a vision and action to improve peace education") and/or Town Hall themes. It is recommended that you read these articles prior to the Conference. Here are the Papers submitted to date:
TEACHING RESOURCES:
Living Values Educational Program by Gudrun Howard, Educator, Editor for Teachers for Peace and Global Education: A BC Provincial Teachers' Specialist Association; National Coordinator, Living Values Educational Program. Living Values Educational Program is a comprehensive values education program offering a wide variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies that enable children and young adults to explore and develop twelve universal values: Peace, Respect, Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance and Unity. LVEP is a non-profit organization (not one paying position in the entire organization) supported by UNESCO and UNICEF and currently being implemented to varying degrees in 70 countries and 7000 sites around the world. Gudrun is planning to bring books to show as well as explanatory hand-outs to the Conference. You can email Gudrun at maya@silk.net
Cultivating Peace is an ongoing initiative to promote a Culture of Peace in Canada through educational programs for youth. The initial Cultivating Peace project includes a series of educational resources that will be available free of charge to Secondary Schools across the country starting in August of 2002. Cultivating Peace is produced by Classroom Connections - a non-profit organization that develops free resources for Canadian schools. While the first three Modules are being developed at the Secondary level, we are currently seeking funding to expand this initiative into the Elementary grades. Visit http://www.cultivatingpeace.ca to obtain a copy by email or Click on this link to review an Adobe pdf copy of the first Cultivating Peace in the 21st Century resource (60 pages and it is excellent). Thanks to Suzanne Anderson for this.
LEARNING TO ABOLISH WAR: TEACHING TOWARD A CULTURE OF PEACE was developed by Betty Reardon and Alicia Cabezudo for the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education. Order forms are available at www.haguepeace.org Learning to Abolish War is a peace education resource developed by Betty A. Reardon and Alicia Cabezudo as part of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education. It provides a theoretical overview of peace education, sample lessons from international peace educators, and resources for action. It includes 3 booklets: 1. Rationale for and Approaches to Peace Education; 2. Sample Learning Units; and 3. Sustaining the Global Campaign for Peace Education: Tools for Participation. What are people saying about Learning to Abolish War: Teaching Toward a Culture of Peace? “The texts show a remarkable capacity to tune in to many kinds of teaching and learning situations, to many disciplines even to a multiplicity of values…I recommend this work and what may follow it as, I dare to say, perhaps our only hope for peace.” – Dr. Maxine Greene, Professor of Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. "Learning to Abolish War seeks to do for war what earlier advocates did for slavery, apartheid, and colonialism — radically reduce their presence if not eradicate them entirely…States in the U.S. should mandate this curriculum…” – Dr. Robert A. Scott, President, Adelphi University. To order a copy, visit the HAP website at http://www.haguepeace.org and send the order form and payment to: Hague Appeal for Peace, Attn: Meg Gardinier, c/o IWTC 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017 USA. Pre-publication price is: USD$25.00 (plus $3.00/each shipping in U.S.)/EUR28.00 (plus shipping) **5 Star Recommended Reading** [Note - Meg will be bringing a number of these books to the Conference.]
Nonviolence 101 by Leah C. Wells http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/02.03/03wellsnonviolence101.htm
Peace and Conflict Studies - A High School Course by
John Daicopoulos
(grades 10 - 12). There
can be no doubt that conflict is a natural activity of humans.
It is commonly the result of contrasting ideas, perceptions, and
interests over similar needs or limited resources.
It is interdisciplinary, covering such diverse issues as: environmental
concerns, human security, scientific debates, family ties, and political
ideologies. With the ascent of
technology it has also become a potentially globally destructive force. Whether
as individuals or when acting in groups, our interpersonal, inter-group, and
international relationships influence how we manage and cope with conflict; but
individuals act differently depending on the context of their relationships.
This course is designed to provide students with a greater awareness of
that context and the means to function within it. The course covers four
strands: deconstructing conflict, identity and conflict, conflict resolution and
building peaceful societies. Attached
is a 26 page course outline in Microsoft Word. [Click
here for Adobe pdf format.] Those who wish to use the program and related
material (the related material are the 89 Lesson Plans that go along with the
course as samples) can correspond with John Daicopoulus at jdaicopoulos@yahoo.ca
. With many thanks to John for this.
Solid Step for Peace Education: Part of the solution linked to the missing legal tool by Altaf Qadeer, Adjunct Professor with York University and Teacher with Toronto School Board
A Presentation to a Peace Conference at McMaster University, Hamilton, November 9-11, 2002 by Shirley Farlinger, Rotary Club of Toronto Eglinton
Peace Through Justice: Executive
Summary
Children’s International Summer Villages (CISV) Longitudinal Study ; CISV Peace Education Circle
The Montessori Method as a
practical and excellent example of Peace Education - this short article
provides a number of links to further reading and is recommended to understand
the link between Montessori and peace, courtesy of Regina Lulka, Montessori
Professor, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario; telephone 905 845 9430 x 3087;
email r.lulka@sympatico.ca
PEACE EDUCATION:
UNESCO (1994) International practical guide on the implementation of the Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms [including Appendix 1 summary of UNESCO (1974) Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms approved and agreed by your Government]
UNESCO (1994) Declaration and Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy [approved and agreed by your Ministries of Education]
UNESCO (1996) Learning: The Treasure Within (also known as the Delors Report; Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century; a 111 page pdf article)
In October 2001, the "Council of Ministries of Education, Canada" (CMEC) has issued a 160 page document entitled "Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy, International Understanding and Tolerance". Click here for a brief summary and our suggestion for action.
INVENTORY OF UNIVERSITY AND OTHER PEACE STUDIES PROGRAMS IN CANADA
Visions of Canadian Peace Educators
Mount Saint Vincent University’s Peace and Conflict Studies Philosophy by Sue McGregor, 2002 - the Mount’s philosophy embraces the UNESCO’s concept of a culture of peace and non-violence, Toh’s notion of a holistic, comprehensive program, Britain’s aims and objectives of peace education, Galtung’s notion of transcending conflict, the emerging concepts of Gaia peace (inner and eco-peace) and transformative peace as well as the conventional notions of negative peace (no war), positive peace (no structural violence but justice instead) and feminist peace (no abuse and violence in the home).
Peace Education Around the World: The Concept, Underlying Principles, the Practice and The Research, edited by Gabi Salomon and B. Nevo. Click here for Index and related articles.
Ministries of Education response to the Peace Education Conference and raise the Critical Questions by Bob Stewart
"WHO IS A PEACE EDUCATOR? : WHERE DOES IT ALL BEGIN?" by Larry J. Fisk, Professor Emeritus, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS; Past-President of the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association
WHAT
IS PEACE EDUCATION? a Brief
statement for forum 2 at Peace Education Conference,
Guidelines
for a Plan of Action
Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations - the report provides a discussion on how children can be the centre of actions for a culture of peace (sect. II). This discussion is followed by the presentation of an organizational strategy for the further development of the global movement for a culture of peace (sect. III) and a survey of the specific contributions to the Decade made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other institutions of the United Nations system (sect. IV).
WHAT IS PEACE EDUCATION? by LORI ADAMS
Why
the need for peace education? by Katherine Covell, PhD
A World Fit For Children and Childrens' Forum Message forwarded by Senator Landon Pearson
[For the avid reader and student of peace education, go to http://www.peace.ca/educationpartnerships.htm for more articles and work that has preceded this Conference.]