| Posted: April 20 2005,04:06 |
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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? |
CARE
has been involved in Peace Education since its establishment in
the year 1989 . Many activities have been done / are being done with ,
by and for teachers , students and parents counciles. There is a
noticable change and shift in the thinking and behaviour of the three
target groups . Issues of respect , accepting the other , fostering
dialogue , all these have become a real noticable creteria of change
and influencing them .
From time to time , CARE tries to introduce new indicators to measure success and challenges , such as :-
* Building effiecent and concrete evaluation programs
* Specifying the needs and objectives
* Wide outreach and teachers/students numbers are increasing
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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The
main obsticale is the Israeli Occupation and the frequent daily
violations and humilliation deeds against the Palestininans in general
and the target groups in particular ( check points , incursions ,
closing schols , curfews...) all these make it very difficult for the
target groups to be motivated more and more .
Other technical challenge is the lack of :-
1-
actual coordination on the ground either between International
concerned institution and local NGOs , or between the local NGOs
themselves.
2- litrature and resources that fit with the Palestinian culture and traditions .
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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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Besides the ongoing training of trainers seminars , and workshops , CARE has done and still do the followings :-
* Ongoing roundtables
* intensifying and strenthenning networking
* translating , publishing and distributing litrature
* writing and publishing in the local newspapers about the decade and other local and International events .
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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? |
We
call upon the General Secretary and the General assembly to help the
Palestinians in putting an end for the Israeli Occupation and its
ongoing violations , mainly the seperation wall that has so many
negative effects on all aspects of the Palestinian life .
We also
request more coordination and to urge the UN working organizations to
be more open , and to widen its cooperation with all Palestinian NGOs
and not to keep themselves to just a small number where financial aid
goes to .
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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 International Decade for Human Rights Education
* The Middle East Children Association
* The Norweigian People to People Program
We do welcome any other International initiative for partnership.
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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)? |
As
an outcome of our recent strategic planning workshop for CARE's staff ,
We are going to focus on more training , translating,publishing and
networking
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Postal address of organization
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P.O.Box 17421 East Jerusalem
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E-mail address of organization
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care@palnet.com
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Website address of organization
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www.palnet.com/~care2
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Culture of Peace Domains
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Free flow of information
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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Local : Palestine and the Middle East
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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International
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