| Posted: Feb. 11 2005,06:54 |
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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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have organized youth from around the world to meet and then develop
projects that reflect building a culture of peace. These young people
are wiiing and able to carry the torch and create inner and outer
peace. They have created projects in Nepal, China, Ghana, Nigeria,
Australia, Liberia and Mexico. This is like a great ripple effect. Call
on the youth and they respond. Acknowledge them and they work
tirelessly. The Apeadu Peace Center offers yearly programs on peace
skills building. The World Spirit Forum supports youth in building the
peaceful future. The Vermont Peace Academy also has a youth component
and the youth are training teachers and their peers oin nonviolent
communication skills. COE manages and works on all of these.
The
indicators are the tremendous amount of youth projects that develop
from organized international meetings to enrich a local level endeavor.
Some of these are...the Togo girls Education project., the Rwanda
Orphans project, the Liberian Peace Parliament for Youth, the
Indigenous Youth Program for the Indios of Mexico, the Nepal Peace Club
and more.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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Naturally the greatest obstacle is lack of financial support for convening youth and intiating projects.
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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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the International Day of Peace, we of the Apeadu Program held a large
gathering for youth and adults in Accra Ghana to discuss and focus on
building a Culture of Peace followed by a Peace March and an
Environmental Clean-up.
As a leader of The Vermont Peace
Academy project, we hosted a series of panels for youth to be linked
throughout the high schools in Vernont by video interactive TV. These
panels focused on religious and s[piritual leaders speaking on an
interfaith dialogue, youth hosting a political Q and A panel of
governmental leaders, a teach-in on Nonviolent Communication Skills and
other relevant topics.
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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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think it is important to support a structure that could house all the
peace activities in order to exhibit the deep interest and intent and
actual focus people have towards creating a Culture of Peace. To this
end I suggest that we adopt a similar Resolution to the Depratment of
Peace Bill that has been presented to the US Congress as a model
for other countries to consider Ministries Of Peace within their own
strucutres. Then we could link these Departments as they do for
Departments of Defense and War.Look at Bli on web site for DoP
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
Childern
of the Earth works diligently to bring a collective understanding and
positive actions into group consent building. We work with UNICEF, VPA,
SWF and many other organizations.
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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)? |
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Postal address of organization
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26 Baycrest Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403
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E-mail address of organization
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coevt@aol.com
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Website address of organization
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children-of-the earth.org
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Education for a CoP
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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CoP domains
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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Ghana
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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Nepal
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