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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 seen the progress with the members of our organisation. It's
possible to have a dialogue now, to make decisions together, and to
take the responsibility.
A way of measuring medium-term progress
is when the people can have a dialogue and long-term progress when they
take the responsibility for themselves and for the team.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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The major obstacle is non-effective system of education and the lack of enlightenment in it and in adult education.
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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 Activities of the Russian AWE Chapter (2001 - 2004)
Russian
AWE Chapter is a chapter of the Association of World Education
which was first established in 1970, with consultative status in the
United Nation.
Russian AWE Chapter was established in November
2001. It is an international, non-governmental, voluntary organization
of individuals and institutions who believe that learning about
ourselves and our communities is most effective and satisfying, when
education reflects an awareness of our intimate relationship to the
world as a whole. The members of the organization find that reflecting
this awareness in concrete ways is not easy, so they have joined
together to practice better what they believe.
Russian AWE Chapter includes individuals and institutions from different parts of Russian Federation and the CIS. Our
goal and philosophy is based on that of the Association of World
Education, on life enlightenment, lifelong learning and world education
inspired by a great number of thinkers who have a concept of the
universal.
The objective of Russian AWE Chapter is to
disseminate non-formal adult education, in particular within the areas
of political, social and cultural issues, and to work for the
ideals that United Nations are standing for: peace, tolerance,
understanding between peoples and nations, and international
cooperation.
Our core projects: 1. Education for World Citizenship. 2. Wisdom of Humanity. 3. Folk University as a Means of Folk Education.
ACTIONS ACCOMPLISHED BY OUR ORGANIZATION WITH REGARD TO PROMOTING A CULTURE OF PEACE
1.
Seminars (regularly): "Enlightenment and Education. Folk University as
a Means of Folk Education" (Feb.2002 - Moscow); "Youth Leadership"
(Nov. 2002 - Moscow region, June 2003, Ufa, Bashkortostan); "Priority
of Human Rights and Freedom in Danish System of Education" (Dec. 2003 -
Kiev, Ukraine).
2. International conferences (annually):
"Education for World Citizenship" (Nov. 2001); "Dialogue of
Civilizations" (Nov. 2002); "Dialogue of Cultures" (July 2003 - Ufa,
Bashkortostan); "Adult Enlightenment and Education" (Oct. 2003);
"Liberal Education in a Global Context" (Oct. 2004).
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Festivals: "Pedagogics of XXI Century" (August, 2002 - Odessa,
Ukraine); 1-st Youth Festival "Dialogue of Cultures" (June 2004,
Valdai);
4. Publications: books: Journal of AWE "Grundtvig and
His Ideas Today" in English (vol. 33 No.2, May 2003, Moscow);
"Grundtvig and His Ideas" in Russian (March 2004 - Moscow); "System of
Education in Great Britain" (August 2004, Moscow).
Booklets:
Proverbs of Different Nations (2003); Grundtvig's Poems (in Russian,
August 2003, Moscow); Folk University as a Means of Folk Enlightenment
(Dec. 2003); Proverbs of Scandinavian People (Apr. 2004); Italian
Proverbs (Sept. 2004).
5. Participation in other events: - in international seminar "Image of Asia" in Denmark; - in opening the University of Family Relations (Valdai, RF); - in international conference "Liberal Adult Education" in Tanzania. There have been created seven Local Learning Centres with Folk University as a coordinating body. There is a website: www.rawe.ru, both in Russian and English.
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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? |
We have international collaboration with the following organizations: -
in Russia: Russian Academy of Education; Center for Lifelong Learning
of the Institute for Multidiscipline Social Studies of
Russian Academy of Science; Vernadsky's Foundation; - abroad:
Danish Sports and Gymnastic Association; Folkeuniversitetscentret in
Denmark; "Light" Centre in Denmark; Danish Association of Free Schools;
Institute for Planetary Synthesis in Geneva (Switzerland);
International Children's Peace Council (Italy).
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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)? |
2005
- 1. The year is devoted to a Danish writer H.C. Andersen's jubilee and
it's announced for the members of the organisation as a year of culture
of peace. So each event is devoted to this topic.
2. The II-nd Youth Festival "Dialogue of Cultures" which will take place in in August in Belarus.
3.
The international conference "Adult Education and Civic Duties" will
take place in September in Moscow. One of the topics for discussion is
"Culture of Peace and Non-Violence -Through Adult Education".
2006 - 1. a great Forum of Peace of which we are one of the organisers and which will take place in India.
2. Youth Festival, which will take place in Denmark.
2007 - 1. Seminar for the co-ordinators of LLCs: Tolerance as a feature of culture of peace.
2. The III-rd Youth Festival "Dialogue of Cultures", which will take place in Bashkortostan.
We have the Plan of Action only for three years.
Over
the next five years, we envisage the creation of a network of Folk
Universities and Local learning Centres and to give the information on
main documents of UN and UNESCO connected with the Programme of Culture
of Peace. To have joint events as many as possible.
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Postal address of organization
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P.O.Box 361 Zhukovsky-1 Moscow region 140181 Russia
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E-mail address of organization
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rawe-lida@mail.ru; rawe_lida@serpantin.ru
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Website address of organization
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www.rawe.ru
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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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Democratic participation
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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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