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Postal address of
organization/institution |
c/
Velázquez, 14 3º D
28001 Madrid
Spain |
E-mail address of
organization/institution |
barcelona@fund-culturadepaz.org |
Website address of
organization/institution |
www.fund-culturadepaz.org
www.fund-culturadepaz.org/barcelona
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Telephone of
organization/institution |
+34 93
413 77 78 (office in Barcelona)
+34 91 426 15 55 (office in
Madrid) |
PRIORITIES: All of the
organization's domains of culture of peace activity |
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TOP PRIORITY: The
organization's most important culture of peace activity |
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PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS:
What partnerships and networks does your organization participate
in, thus strengthening the global movement for a culture of peace?
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Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC
- NGO associated with
the Department of Public Information of the United Nations -
DPI
- World Forum of Civil Soceity Networks-Ubuntu
- World
Campaign for the Reform of the System of International
Institutions
- Global Action to Prevent War
- AIPAZ
-Asociación Española de Investigación para la Paz
- World
Education Forum / Foro Mundial de la Educación
- Catalan network
for the recognition of the human right to peace (AEDIDH)
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ACTIONS: What activities have
been undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace
and nonviolence during the ten years of the Decade? If you already
made a report in 2005, your information from 2005 will be included
in the 2010 report. |
Since 2005, the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and
its delegations (Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela and CEIPAZ) have
been working in the promotion of a Culture of Peace and non-violence
at all levels. Here below, we highlight some of the diferent
activites that have been undertaken by our organization to promote a
Culture of Peace since 2005.
- FOUNDATION FOR A CULTURE OF
PEACE (Head Office - MADRID):
Since 2005, the Foundation for a
Culture of Peace (hereafter, FCP) has been working on the building
and consolidation of a culture of peace through reflection,
investigation, education and action on the field in accordance with
the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
(A/RES/53/243). Its President, Federico Mayor, has spread the
message of the Culture of Peace through different channels:
a)
Participation in a large amount of conferences and seminars
organized by CSOs and public administrations from all levels and
from all around the world
b) Publication of articles in the major
Spanish newspapers as well as in international ones.
c) TV
and radio interviews
d) Large publication of posts in his
blogg
From 2005 to 2006, Federico Mayor, by the appointment of
the Secretary General of UN, acted as the Co-Chair of the UN High
Level Group for the Alliance of Civilisations, a UN process
developped on the basis and principles of a Culture of Peace, that
became part of the Culture of Peace item. of the UN General
Assembly.
The FCP has been also developping and updating its web
page, which recently has open spaces in Facebook and Youtube,
including a large e-library of documentation related with the
Culture of Peace.
-FOUNDATION FOR A CULTURE OF
PEACE-BARCELONA ( hereafter, FCPB):
Since 2005, the FCPB,
directed by Manuel Manonelles, has organized many activites:
international and local seminars, conferences and meetings; as well
as many publications to promote a Culture of Peace,
underlying:
-Project of translation, edition & difusion
of the World Report on Culture of Peace (2005)
-Report on
Good Practices on Culture of Peace (2006) in collaboration with
other institutions
-Conferences and activities on Culture
of Peace in the 59th and 60th edition of the UN DPI/NGO Conferences
(UN New York 2006 & UNESCO Paris 2007)
-International
Conference on “Interculturalism, Human Rights and Alliance of
Civilizations”, Rio de Janeiro, December 2007
-High Level Meeting
and Declaration of Montserrat on “Religions and Peace”, April
2008.
-Seminar on “Migrations & Interculturality, two keys of
our times” October 2009.
-Seminar on “Climate Change and Peace:
The impact of Climate Change on International Peace and Security and
its Humanitarian Dimension”, November 2009, as part of the COOP+15
process.
From 2005 to 2006, the FCPB acted also as Office of the
Co-Chair of the UN High Level Group for the Alliance of
Civilizations, mentioned above.
Moreover it has participated in a
large number of international meetings and processes linked to the
Culture of Peace.
As part of the commemoration of the 10th
anniversary of the Declaration and Plan of Action for a Culture of
Peace (1999-2009), a joint project has been developed together with
IPS – Inter Press Service, with a series of journalists articles by
internationally renowned authors which have been widely translated
and distributed via traditional print media (with more than 500.000
print copies of each article, some of them with more than 1.000.000
printed copies) and electronic media.
-SEMINARIO GALEGO DE
EDUCACION PARA A PAZ/FOUNDATION CULTURE OF PEACE-SANTIAGO DE
COMPOSTELA (hereafter SGEP):
Its activities are mainly
devoted and focused to the education for peace with especial
attention to school conflicts, having become a reference in this
field. Since SGEP became structurally linked to the Foundation as
its delegation in Santiago de Compostela, has done many activities,
publications and DVDs on this issue:
- En son de Paz (DVD)
-
Redes para la Paz
- Educar pacificando. Una pedagogía de los
conflictos
- Sobre a Educación para cidadanía e os Dereitos
Humanos
- Sobre la educación para la ciudadanía y los derechos
humanos
- Cultura de Paz (DVD)
- + Convivencia=
-Violencia
- A obsesión armamentista: unha patoloxía mortal
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X nada / [4 nothing] (DVD)
SGEP is also responsible for the
organisation and promotion of the Week on Peace and Non-Violence in
the Schools in the whole region of Galicia, organizing activities
and new educational materials and kits every year.
Currently, one
of the most relevant initiatives that SGEP is organising is “Forum
2010”, a large container of international events and activities
around the Culture of Peace. This will take place taking into
account that in 2010 several remarkable events take place, including
the conclusion of a new Year of St James of Compostela, date and
meeting place for millions of people, the end of the United Nations
Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence (2001-2010), ten years
since the existence of Millennium Goals (MDG+10) and of the
implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action for a
Culture of Peace. It also marks 10 years since the World Social
Forum, and the World Education Forum, born in Porto Alegre.
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CENTRO DE EDUCACIÓN E INVESTIGACIÓN PARA LA PAZ-CEIPAZ: It is
a centre devoted to the study and divulgation from a
multidisciplinary perspective the relation between conflicts,
Development and education. It analyses the tendencies in the
international system and promotes education for development and
peace.
Since 2007, CEIPAZ has published a YearBook
- Anuario 2007-2008: Paz y conflictos en el
siglo XXI: tendencias globales
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Anuario 2008-2009: Escenarios de crisis: fracturas y pugnas en el
sistema internacional
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Anuario 2009-2010: Crisis y cambio en la sociedad global
To
commemorate the tenth anniversary of the resolution 1325 approved by
the UN Security Council in 2000, the publication “1325 mujeres
tejiendo para la paz” and seminars and conference have been
organised for this purpose.
Moreover is developing other
projects, mainly: Conflictos y desarrollo en América Latina,
Construcción de paz y cooperación al desarrollo, Educación para la
paz, el desarrollo, y la ciudadanía global. Since 2008 is being
developing, in collaboration with the Culture of Peace Research
Centre of the University of Castelló, an important series of papers
developing different
It has also being developing, within its
web, an imprtant Virtual Library of Research on Peace, and different
new e-tools, such as blogs and others.
Seminar at the DPI/NGO Conference. UN NY, 2007
International
Seminar “Migrations and interculturality: keys of our times”
together with “La Caixa” Foundation. October, 2008
International Conference: Climate Change and Peace:
November, 2009
- Encounter and
Declaration of Montserrat on Religions and the Building of Peace.
April 2008 |
PROGRESS: Has your
organization seen progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence
in your domain of action and in your constituency during the second
half of the Decade? |
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soon. |
OBSTACLES: Has your
organization faced any obstacles to implementing the culture of
peace and nonviolence? If so, what were they? |
Coming
soon. |
PLANS: What new engagements
are planned by your organization in the short, medium and long term
to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence? |
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GLOBAL MOVEMENT: How do you
think the culture of peace and nonviolence could be strengthened and
supported at the world level?? |
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