November 23 - 25, 2004 - National Culture of
Peace/Canadian Peace Initiative Symposium - A venue for the
discussion of a Canadian National Culture of Peace Program
("Canadian Peace Initiative" or CPI). Development of a
report to the U.N. Secretary General on Canada's response to the U.N.
Culture of Peace Program. Tentative Agenda:
1. Acting on "The Human Right To Peace" - a presentation on
Senator Douglas Roche' book "The Human Right To Peace".
(background reading is the book http://www.peace.ca/rochebookreview.htm
)
2. A suggested Canadian Peace Vision: To significantly reduce the
human cost of violence, within our country and our world. A
presentation by Robert Stewart, C.A., C.M.C. (background reading Canadian
Peace Initiative Strategy )
3. What might a National Culture of Peace Program for Canada look
like? (background reading http://www.peace.ca/copp.htm
to start the dialogue)
4. A discussion of the importance of Peace Education and other
fundamentals to build peace
5. A possible Canadian Peace Initiative Charter of Principles
(background reading http://www.peace.ca/CPImission.htm
to start the dialogue, and I draw your particular attention to
the last section of the page for the proposed Charter)
6. Action Planning: Where we go from here -
a) Canadian civil society report to the U.N. Secretary General on
progress of the Culture of Peace Program in Canada in 2005
(Reference UN
General Assembly document A/55/47 http://www.peace.ca/UNa55r047.pdf particularly
paragraphs 11 to 13)
b) working groups and organizational structure (for an example of
what that might look like to start the discussion refer to http://www.peace.ca/appendixb.htm ;
note that, due to our technical limitations, this sample
organization chart is linear -- it can be redrawn into a circle or,
possibly more suitably, into a "web")
c) a Canadian National Culture of Peace Program/Canadian Peace
Initiative email listserv communication tool
d) the Culture of Peace News Network - Canada (U.N. Resolution A/RES/57/6 Encourages
the involvement of the mass media in education for a culture of
peace and non-violence, with particular regard to children and young
people, including through the planned expansion of the Culture of
Peace News Network as a global network of Internet sites in many
languages; background reading http://cpnn-usa.org/resolutions/resA-57-6.html and
http://cpnn-usa.org/ )
e) future Canadian National Culture of Peace
Program/Canadian Peace Initiative symposiums
f) engaging key stakeholders, such as government, business community,
media, etc.
g) resources (available, needed, how to fill the gap, etc.)
h) other
Click on
http://www.peace.ca/nationalcultureofpeace2004.htm
for further details of Agenda and registration.
Location: at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (following the
Third Annual Peace Education Conference in Canada, November 18 - 22,
2004). Contact Bob Stewart stewartr [at] peace.ca
for more information.