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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? |
1. What achievements in sphere of education in the field of training a culture of peace and to human rights managed to achieve?
Democratic
changes in our society during last decades promoted positive changes in
sphere of a culture of peace and human rights education in Russia. At
the same time these changes, led to decentralization of the Russian
education, in the certain degree limit an opportunity of the state
intervention in educational process and do not allow to introduce
directly at the state level in teaching as obligatory those or other
aspects of a culture of peace and human rights.
Nevertheless, the Ministry of Education has prepared a
number
of the documents directed on realization of a new educational paradigm
in given area. The significant step was the Decision of Board of the
Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on December 28, 1994
24/1 "On Strategy of Development Historical and Social Studies
Education in Institutions of General Education".
In educational
standards being developed for comprehensive schools substantial units
under human rights and a culture of peace are included.
Articles
of theoretical character are published in pedagogical and other mass
media. In a number of high schools of Russia (the Academy for Upgrading
Professional Standards and Retraining of Educators of the Russian
Federation, the Moscow Pedagogical State University, the Tobolsk
Pedagogical Institute, the Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical Institute,
St.Petersburg Academy of Pedagogical Skills, etc.) programs on a
culture of peace and human rights education are developed. Manuals on a
culture of peace, tolerance, conflictology and human rights, the rights
of the child are issued. Recently the number of published scientific
articles, monographies and manuals concerning a culture of peace grows
in Russia. The special attention is given to questions of overcoming
conflicts, tolerance, human rights, etc.
Creation of institutes,
faculties, the centers and the laboratories which were deal with
problems of preparation of teachers to teaching of a culture of peace
and human rights (Institute of a culture of peace in Kazan is the
educational center which is the first one in the country on a
professional training civil peacemakers which will be used for work on
prevention and overcoming of consequences of conflicts on an ethnic and
religious basis is remarkable; Faculty of the international education
and a culture of peace at Moscow Institute of Open Education; faculty
of human rights of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, the centers
of a culture of peace and tolerance (Cheboksary, Perm, Tver,
Arkhangelsk, etc.; laboratory of human rights at Moscow Pedagogical
University, the centers of civic education in Kaluga, Moscow, Samara,
St.Petersburg - totally 50 centers)
Significant attention to
education in spirit of a culture of peace and human rights began to pay
recently schools involved in UNESCO Associated School Project.
The
great value on distribution of ideas of a culture of peace plays the
educational project "the Network of Schools of Peace", a voluntary
project. It is carried out under the initiative of the Museum of
peace-making operations with assistance of and support of the United
Nations Information Centre in Moscow, the Moscow Institute of Open
Education and institutions of general education of Moscow and regions
of Russia with the purpose of development of the new ideas received
during implementation of the project "United Nations Model of
Peacemaking". The Primary goal of the project is creation of conditions
for an exchange of an operational experience of the Russian and foreign
educational institutions interested in civic education of students in
spirit of a culture of peace and peacemaking.
Wide educational
and educational activity in the field of a culture of peace is
conducted by non-governmental organizations from which it is necessary
to mention the Center of Civic Education, the Moscow School of Human
Rights, the Youth Center of Human Rights and Legal Culture, the Moscow
Helsinki Group, Fulcrum Foundation, Youth Human Rights Protection
Group, the Ryazan School of Human Rights, Stavropol Regional public
organization "ECO-Stavropol", the Nizhniy Novgorod Center of Civic
Education, the International movement of Teachers for Peace and Mutual
Understanding and a number of others.
It is possible to carry to
the basic forms of such activity as carrying out of educational actions
(summer schools, sessions, seminars) for various target groups, and
publishing projects.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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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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2.
The basic actions in sphere of education in the field of a culture of
peace (including the purposes, the involved participants and
achievement) carried out in Russia within the limits of a Decade?
The basic actions in sphere of a human rights education it is possible to allocate all in following directions:
Presidential
programs: the Federal Target Program "Formation of Attitudes of
Tolerant Consciousness and Prevention of Extremism in the Russian
Society" (2001-2005).
The basic purpose and tasks of the program are:
Training
Training
of students: development of the federal educational standard on social
science, histories; inclusion into them action-based and nomenclature
concepts on the rights of the child and the person; preparation of
normative documents and circulars, methodical recommendations on a
problem of studying of human rights;
Teaching and methodical
support: creation of textbooks, teaching and methodical complete sets
on civic education, social sciences, facultative courses on studying
human rights for pupils, teaching and methodical complete sets,
collections of materials on these problematics for teachers.
A
professional training: the organization and carrying out courses of
preparation and retraining of workers of education in Academy for
Upgrading Professional Standards and Retraining of Educators of the
Russian Federation, establishing advanced training of the staff in
subjects of the Russian Federation on themes: "a Culture of Peace,
Human Rights, Tolerance and Peaceableness", "the Rights of the Child -
Social and Educational Programs", "Civic Education, Education by
History", "Ethical and Legal Education", "Human rights", "the
Convention on the Rights of the Child", etc.
Regional programs
Carrying
out Russian national and international conferences: "Citizen of the
21st Century: problems of formation and development of person in
conditions of modernization of the Russian education", "Teaching of
human rights: practical activities at initial and basic school", "From
stereotypes of war to ideals of peace through a culture of peace and
education", "Human rights in the contemporary world", etc.
Projects
The
special projects on developing a culture of peace and tolerance,
especially in multinational regions of Russia such as Moscow, Northern
Caucasus and Volga Region, were implemented with support of UNESCO, the
Council of Europe and other international organizations. The special
attention was paid to Chechen Republic which children were involved in
various actions on forming democratic citizenship and multicultural
approach. The recent challenges of terrorism added anti-terrorist
dimension in such activities.
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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? |
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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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The Civic Education Center
8 block, 2 Apt.
Glovinskoye Shosse
Moscow, 125212, Russian Federatioin
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E-mail address of organization
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bolotina@ripc.redline.ru
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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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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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