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Posted: Aug. 04 2006,03:08 by JoLofgren from INTERNATIONAL - Jo Lofgren
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Questionnaire
1.a)
I would organize worksghops in primary and secondary schools, with a
huge focus on peace education (and all its principle), suing day-to-day
situation young students are facing at schools, in their youth group,
within their families… Focus also on what they see in media, how they
understand it, analyze it. I would try to develop those workshops in
cooperation with teachers, but also, why not, to involve the students
themselves. This would be a mid-term project, over a period of 6 months
or 1 year. I would focus on schools because this is an environment
where a lot has to be done on education for a CoP, and because youth
organisation would already be actively developing complementary actions
in another context/enviroment.
Aside of peace education, those workshops would have a strong intercultural dimension.
b)
I would need the support of the teachers and probably of the families,
depending on the context (e.g. if a group of students decided to
organise an out-door activity in relation to the subject).
I would
need access to infrastructures (schools, gymnasium, etc) and at least
basic material as well as access to IT and library, for the students to
develop their work, if needed and appropriate (e.g. in the case of
research).
c) Focus would be put on education for a CoP with
training courses and awareness-raising activities focusing on: conflict
prevention and problem solving, Human Rights Education and
intercultural learning.
Aside of this, information campaign(s) about
CoP and institutions’ initiatives in relation to its components would
also be developed for a large public, beyond the one of youth
organizations.
d) Mainly human resources! Volunteers in
general, trainers/experts/speakers in particular, depending on the type
of activities organized within a certain action plan. Representatives
of institutions and foundations should also be ready to give some of
their time to promote CoP to a large public.
Material would also be needed, especially for training.
2.a) * involve young people in the development of those policies
* support and ensure participation of young people at all levels of the society
* effectively implement equality policies at ALL levels and in all structures
*
better support the work youth organisations in general and in
relation to CoP projects, by information, financial and legal means
*
better support training of youth workers focusing on education for a
CoP, and develop adequate training teachers on the same issues
(and its components)
b) More or less the same, but ensuring this at a global level.
Focus should be put on :
* Gender equality
*
Access to education for all AND not only to formal education but also
to non-formal education (going far beyond literacy but following the
UNESCO definition of formal and non-formal education)
* Ensure good governance mechanisms
* Develop and equip (also financially) programmess aiming at peace education or at CoP in general
* Ensure links and coherence between the different agencies and in the work done around the issue of CoP in different contexts.
* Give more credit and recognition to the work of the UNESCO as well
In
general, UN should ensure the effective implementation of the MDGs.
When it comes to young people, it should ensure a proper implementation
of programmes such as the WPAY.
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS
3.
Involvement of young people (participation and education for all are
for me the key principles). This should of course be done mainly at
local, regional and national level, but would have an impact at
European and global level through existing or newly established
structures (platforms, focal groups etc).
Those structures should,
at first, respect basic principle of youth organizations meaning being
representatives, transparent, be run by and for young people, apply
democratic decision-making process, equality and
anti-discrimination principles.
4. Campaigns. Information in all spaces possible (schools, youth clubs, organizations, working places…).
Put
a strong focus, financial means and energy to go where young people
have not access to the information. Develop user-friendly key messages,
adjust the vocabulary. Make policies accessible to all in terms of
understanding but also in terms of participation.
5. Through independent structures, composed of representatives of governments/institutions/youth organizations.
6.
They should first get access to information. Know what is going on,
what is CoP. If there is an interest, they should know what are the
different possibilities for them to be involved (those should be
adapted to the needs of young people, of course). They will only be
motivated if they are told key message in a way they can understand,
and if activities answer their needs (which means that needs
assessments have to be done, for example). They have to be involved in
at least some of the activities linked to CoP actions.
7.a) For example:
Service Civil International and their national members
Youth Action for Peace and their national members
ACSUR – Las Segovias
They may not work directly on CoP but surely on its components.
b) Done…
8. My response to this questionnaire is my personal opinion
Contact information:
European Youth Forum
Rue Joseph II
120 B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Contact Person: Gisele Evrard
E-mail: gisele.evrard@youthforum.org
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