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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? |
Yes.
Education for Peace Globalnet acts promoting interaction among leaders
of meaningful projects and organizations through electronic means and
presencial meetings. Since our World Meeting in Geneva 2000, around 300
projects from the five continents joined the network. Each project has
a page at the www.redepaz.org website and/or presented its reports in
the II World Meeting at São Paulo and four Continental Meetings in
Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe. In 2005 the North American and
South American Meetings will conclude this cycle of Continental
Meetings. The projects registered in the website compose a publication
called "Learning Book".
A world community for learning and
action began to be formed supporting the cooperation among the leaders
and their organizations, potencializing actions and focusing on
concrete and creative solutions.
Considering this half of the
decade, many networks concerned to Culture of Peace started or
intensified their contribution for the flow of knowledge and
information among their members and with their partners. Education for
Peace Globalnet evolved from 10 partner organizations in 2000 to 34 in
2005.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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In
the area of information and knowledge flow, one of the main obstacles
is the digital divide. Large numbers of the world population has not
access to computers. The educational deficit and cultural isolation in
some areas of the planet is responsible for another main problem: the
low level of participation in the world social and cultural life. The
lack of an integrated concept of planetary citizenship prevents the
majority of people from an effective participation in building the
basis for a culture of peace, from the individual, home, community to
the global level. Crystallized concepts and corresponding interests and
power structures based on separation - nations, religions, gender,
races - prevent real changes in the economic, political and cultural
spheres in the entire world.
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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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ACTIONS: 1993-2000
2000-2005
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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? |
a)
UN widespread program of conflict resolution missions acting on local
and regional conflicts; training group mediators capable of working
with educators, communicators, business, community and religious
leadears. This program would be developed through UN Agencies in
accordance with the local authorities and in collaboration with NGOs,
Universities, Churches and professional mediators;
b) UN support for
the creation of many world local/global learning and action communities
enhancing the exchange of knowledge and information by crossing
cultural, gender, religious and national boundaries;
c) Creating
more and supporting the existing World Forums to deepen the
understanding and recreation of concrete policies to face urgent
problems of the world population ranging from income distribution,
unemployment, health, education, communication, access to credit,
technology, food production and distribution;
d) Dissemination of
many Communication Centers and making available the phone coverage
mainly in rural and poor areas of the globe;
e) Promoting extensive
capacity building projects combined with practical solutions programs
related to the topics of the World Forums in cooperation with NGOs,
Churches, Armies, Corporations benefiting from and supporting voluntary
work and youth exchange activities;
f) World campaign to erradicate illiteracy and promote digital integration in all regions of the world;
g)
Supporting global education and global citizenship programs by
promoting the understanding and respect of the world traditions and
creation of learning networks through educational institutions.
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
Education
for Peace Globalnet is itself a partnership program result of the
cooperation of many global and local organizations. The concretization
of its meetings and specific actions since 2000 is the result of the
contribution of:
Apeadu Peace Center - Ghana
Associação Palas Athena - Brazil
Associação Prefeitos do Nodeste Paulista - Brazil
Art for the World - Geneva
Baha'i Community -
Beyond Words - Israel
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University -
Center for Nonviolent Communication - Brazil
Children of the Earth - USA
Club of Budapest - Hungary
Conselho Secretários da Educação- CONSED - Brazil
Dhammakaya Foundation - Thailand
Findhorn Foundation - Scotland
Fundación Niños Unidos para el Mundo - Argentina
Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva - Israel
Instituto Escola Brasil - Brazil
Instituto de Estudos do Futuro - Brazil
Institute of Noetic Sciences - USA
Institute for Planetary Synthesis - Geneva
Instituto do Legislativo Paulista - Brazil
International Buddhist Society - Thailand
Int. Institute for Global Education - University of Toronto
Mathura Society for Meditation - Thailand
Movimento Midia da Paz - Brazil
Parlamento Latino Americano - Brazil
Pattaya City Municipality - Thailand
São Paulo Chamber of Commerce - Brazil
Senate of the Kingdom of Thailand
Serviço Social do Comércio - SESCSP - Brazil
Universidade Holística International - UNIPAZ
Willis Harman House - Brazil
Women World Summit Foundation - Geneva
World Peace Prayer Society
YMCA - Ghana
The
Education for Peace Globalnet participates in the Parliamentary Culture
of Peace Council in São Paulo - Brazil, in the Culture of Peace website
of UNESCO-Paris, and now in the Decade for a Culture of Peace website.
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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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Rua Lisboa, 328 - Jardim Paulistano - São Paulo - SP -Brasil
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E-mail address of organization
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redepaz@redepaz.org
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Website address of organization
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www.redepaz.org
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Free flow of information and knowledge
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Education for 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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