“GIVE THEM THE TOOLS”

The Canadian Peace Education Foundation for a World Fit For Children (“CPEF”) purpose is to raise funds for education for building peace, and to consider results-oriented peacebuilding educational projects at home and abroad.  Our ultimate goal is to significantly reduce the human cost of violence against children and others, through:

1.increasing peace awareness and knowledge of alternatives to violence;

2.increasing donations of money and volunteerism for peace education;

3.increasing information resources for peace education (eg. Books, articles, videos, etc.);

4.increasing social educational programming (eg. Government initiatives, corporate initiatives, school initiatives, etc.)

The nature of programs to be funded includes:

• venues for dialogue (eg. conferences, community town halls, etc.; from annually to continuously)
• peace education programs, distance education, peace research (functional topics would include, but not be limited to, those 50 items on the Hague Appeal for Peace Agenda see http://www.peace.ca/agendaofthehague.htm ; strategic topics would include peace leadership and empowerment, social change management, peace problem solving, peace resource management, conflict transformation, peace pedagogy, peace psychology, etc.)
• resource libraries (eg. books, videos, Internet, publishing, magazines; a major central location, major provincial locations, major community locations, etc.)
• Television programming (eg. Vision TV, PBS, TLC, Radio)
• Centres for Teaching Peace (eg. a major central location, major provincial locations, major community locations, etc.)
• scholarships and exchange programs
• exporting Culture of Peace expertise
• safe and caring schools violence prevention type programs
• work with existing infrastructure.  Where infrastructure does not exist, we would encourage it.  We will be careful to not "take away" from, or duplicate, existing organizations and programs
• projects would be funded to build peace at the individual level, family level, community level and world level 

You can read more about Foundation Activities at http://www.peace.ca/foundationactivities.htm 

If you agree with the need for peace education, please invest $1.00 or whatever you can afford.  If we raise $1.00 from every man, woman and child in Canada annually for peace education then we will have some $30,000,000 to reinvest in people to significantly reduce the human cost of violence.  We will ask corporations, governments and other organizations to also step up to the challenge - possibly by matching $1.00 for each dollar raised by their families.

CPEF is non-political and non-religious.  We are committed to a business-like approach, results-oriented programming, and minimizing administration overheads to ensure the maximum amount of donations will be used for education for peace and a better future for the children of the world.

Robert Stewart, C.A., C.M.C., Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace

Dr. Larry Fisk, Past President, Canadian Peace Research and Education Assoc.

Dr. Vicki Mather, Executive Director, Safe and Caring School Communities Trust, Alberta

Lowell Ewert, J.D., LL.M., Director of Peace & Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel College

Heather MacTaggart, Director of Classroom Connections

Dr. Anne Goodman, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Dr. David Adams, Past Director of the UN International Year for the Culture of Peace Program and Director of the Culture of Peace News Network

Use this form to make your pledge:

Organization/Name________________________

Address_________________________________

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Phone____________  Fax___________________

Amount enclosed__________________________

Receipt requested?_________________________

□ Send us Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21^st Century (CDN$61.95 plus $10.00 shipping/handling)  

□ Send us The Human Right to Peace by Doug Roche  (CDN$24.95 plus $10.00 shipping/handling)

□ Send us the Peace Songs CD (CDN$25.00 plus $10.00 shipping/handling)

□ Send us other___________________________

□ Please add us to the peace education e-list.  Our email address_____________________________

Send cheque or money order, payable to the Canadian Peace Education Foundation, Box 70 , Okotoks , AB T1S 1A4

For more information, or to discuss gifts of cash, securities and planned gifts, contact Robert Stewart, C.A., C.M.C., Chair at stewartr [at] peace.ca or visit our website at http://www.peace.ca/foundation.htm

Note - this web page space is provided courtesy of Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace ("CCTP").  CCTP is a separate, independent organization and has no financial or operational association, other than providing assistance and support when requested.  CCTP and the Board of Advisors receives no remuneration from CPEF.