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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? |
The Culture of Peace activities are established since 2001 with activities every year.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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War continues.
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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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1. Campaign to make World Children’s Peace Statues
Children
and their supporting grown-ups together made statues in Tokyo (May 5,
2001), Hiroshima (Aug 6, 2001) and in Kyoto (2003). These statues
symbolize prayer and action for peaceful world without force or
violence. The original statue was established in Hiroshima Peace
Park as Sadako’s Statue in 1956. This statue building campaign is
spreading like a chain-reaction.
2. Call for Peace-- September, 2001
Message
writing campaign: Getting hint from www.thepetitionsite.com Many
students wrote to the US President urging him to reconsider his foreign
policy. One student's message: "I fully understand that you can't
forgive the attack of terrorism. Let me mourn the sacrificed
people from my heart. But revenge will kill a lot of innocent
people. If you stop here and look for the solution by peaceful
means, peace will come for sure. I believe you are the only person who
can stop revenge. And then in the future let us abolish war
together".
3. Peace Operation ‘The Convention on the Rights of
the Child’ Dec., 2002+ Mail/ Letter writing campaign to stop Iraq War,
launched by Life-Link, Japan at www.chichibu.ne.jp/~sekine/lifelink/
‘Introduction’ of this campaign says, ‘children and youth around the
world are all friends… November 20th, 1989 was a great day in human
history. The world promised that they would support any child around
the world beyond borders. The promise was the Convention on the
Rights of the Child.’
The purpose of this campaign is to stop the
war by peaceful means. Not a small number of schools took part in
this campaign in Japan. But the US government started the war.
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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 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)? |
The above campaigns may be continuing.
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Postal address of organization
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Shinbayashi 400, Miyaumi, YAMAGATA
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E-mail address of organization
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English teacher Kahn Mikio ringopie@nifty.com
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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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