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Posted: Aug. 04 2006,12:35 by David from
INTERNATIONAL - Fundacion Cultura de Paz |
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be quoted, see below)
1. a) If funds were available, what
youth activities related to a CoP would you like to do as an
individual?
As a former participant to the United Nations
Internship Program, I had the chance to be involved in it at the
headquarters in New York, and after this experience I would use the
funds in order to improve it.
The Program is an excellent
opportunity to understand the international system and the way the
in which the United Nations operate. It also gives to young people a
chance to give a personal contribution in building a Culture of
Peace, being the UN rooted with and created for defending the
principles and values CoP is made of.
b) What non-financial
support do you need to do these activities?
I would need to
be supported by someone with a decision-making power in the United
Nations in order to be able to bring my opinions to the people in
charge of the Program and to cooperate with them to ameliorate
it.
c) If funds were available, what youth activities related
to a CoP would your organization like to do?
- Implementing
the programs of education on the CoP and on the understanding of
international affairs, consisting in seminars, conferences and
public events. It would probably be able to finance, as a first
step, the project for an International Conference on "The
Cooperation Between Civil Society and International Institutions in
Addressing Terrorism: a Necessity in the name of Human Rights".
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Improving the programs of exchanges/visits with/in other countries
and international institutions
- Making grants available for
students resident in Italy and in developing countries
d)
What non-financial support does your organization need for CoP
activities?
- Networking with international actors and
institutions
2. a) What changes in youth policies do you
think the government/leadership in your country should make to
promote a CoP?
b) What CoP youth activities/initiatives do
you think the UN should do?
As I mentioned above, I think
that the United Nations should ameliorate the Internship Program.
Being it non-paid, only few young people already lucky enough to be
able to think about investing in this experience can afford to live
it. It would be much more fair if the right to access it was
guaranteed also to the many brilliant students, specially those
coming from developing countries (very scarcely represented, at
least in NY), who cannot even dream about being able to spend those
amounts of money to move in order to work for free
abroad
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS
3. Do you have any
suggestions or recommendations for improving youth participation in
CoP activities on any levels (UN, government, civil
society)?
Governments are often too busy in formulating
policies of high visual-media impact but with very limited
sustainability and taking the money away from where they would be
spent in order to create the leaders of tomorrow, such as
scholarships and grants for foreign students that, traveling with
academic purposes will spread a different knowledge to other
students (some programees already exist, but I think they should be
reinforced, specially in italy).
On other thing is the
involvement of government and civil society in helping the youth in
understanding, during their studies, not only the traditional
subjects, but also the connections of them to the international
community and to the crisis the world id facing. Only by this it
would be possible to obtain a generation who can be well aware of
the privileges and responsibilities they imply in western countries,
while in developing countries it would allow students to better
understand the causes of their situation and try to work for a
better world and neighborhood from inside.
4. What could be
done to improve/ensure transparency and flow of information in
promoting the CoP?
I think that the first step would be to
do, as it is being done now, a survey among the youth itself, then a
public campaign through the schools and universities and, finally,
through the media.
It would be necessary to clearly indicate
the necessary requirements for applying and a monitoring on the
organizations activities
5. To ensure the best possible
benefit of a UN Voluntary Fund for youth and CoP, how should it be
managed/administered?
Formulating a "code of conduct" to be
respected both by the administrators and the beneficiaries of the
fund, a monitoring activity and a reporting mechanism to the Fund
itself on the activities and results for the organizations and
projects financed. There should be a mixed managing team composed by
professionals and academics with a strong participation of the youth
itself, in order to bring together qualified experiences and
knowledge with fresh energies and ideas.
Individual projects
coming from young people not belonging, for a series of valid
reasons that can vary because of regional or personal
characteristics, to any association, should also be
considered.
6. How can youth not yet involved in CoP
activities be reached and motivated?
Networking between the
organizations should be encouraged, together with public information
campaigns and educational campaigns in the schools.
7. a)
Which other organizations do you know of, that work for a CoP?
- Societą Italiana per l'Organizzazione Internazionale
(Italy, branch of Torino)
- In a very different way, Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy)
- Delta Centre for the
Promotion of the Rights of Dalits (Chennai, India)
Many others,
both local and international.
b) Would you be willing to
contact them or may we contact them with the questionnaire? Please
specify.
I would be more than happy contact them, and some more
others in Italy, in Europe or in India, since I believe it could
allow young willing people to realize their projects for a CoP. I
would do it first personally (with the ones I know better), and then
via e-mail or indirect contacts.
8. My response to this
questionnaire is my personal opinion
Gabriele De
Gaudenzi
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From:
Gabriele De Gaudenzi, gdegaudenzi@yahoo.it
To:
mail@decade-culture-of-peace.org
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2006 1:04:20 PM
Subject: Re: YCP
questionnaire
Dear David,
I send you a new version,
thank you very much for proposing to quote my suggestions in the
Report, it would be simply great!
In this last version I also
filled the part on the organizations, but if you are going to
present it as coming from a former intern, you would maybe like to
delete it.
Warmest regards,
Gabriele |
