| Posted: April 30 2005,04:59 |
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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
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school has been working within the Life-Link Programme since 1998. We
performed four big projects these last seven hard-working years. They
were on environmental care and peace.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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Violence
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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All
our institutional projects are supported by the School Heads and
teachers and we always plan actions to be carried out by all the
students of our school trying to engage other schools nearby and the
community. As regards “Peace in the world” we worked quite a lot trying
to create a complete and full conscious mind about this matter. We
started working together with a school from Chichibu, Japan after a
teacher, Mr. Kazuaki Sekine, sent us a model of the Gembaku Dome. Since
then, one action came after the other. We contacted the Japanese
community in our city, planted gingko bilobas in 3 schools (as a symbol
of our work together), made 1000 cranes with peace messages which were
given to people in two squares of our city. Students expressed what
peace meant for them through paintings and drawings, and wrote passages
and essays about their feelings against war and terrorism and their
consequences.
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
The school is part of the Life-Link school network
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
Now
we are starting a fifth project “What we can do for the Olympic Truce”.
We started working by inviting students from 3 other schools to a
friendly sport competition. Before this, we talked about the importance
of sports and healthy food and about what the Olympic Truce is. After
all this, we were chosen by the Ministry of Education of the Province
to be the leader school of a Peace Parliament in November 2004.
Students and teachers from seven schools discussed and took part about
Argentina’s position within the world and what we could do from our
place. Togetherness among teachers and teen students will build up a
worldwide peace commitment.
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Postal address of organization
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Bv Orono 1147
2000 Rosario
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E-mail address of organization
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Marcela Masó, teacher: bourguignon@sinectis.com.ar
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Website address of organization
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Education for a Culture of Peace
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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International
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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Japan
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