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Date : 2014-01-12 20:25
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[International Seminars]
Peace education in Asia, November 8 - 10, 2009, at Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea
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| November 8 - 10, 2009, at Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea
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| Around 40 Korean scholars of religon and 25 international peace educators
and religious workers met to discuss how to implement peace education in Asia
and what role religion should play in it. |
Recommendations on Peace Education in Asia IPCR 2009 International
Seminar
Draft for Plenary Presentation
We, participants
in IPCR 2009 International Seminar held in Seoul on November 9-10, 2009, agree
that collaborative actions are necessary to address today's challenges of war,
armed conflict, extreme poverty and environmental devastation. Two world wars
and many armed conflicts of last century resulted in the loss of many innocent
lives. There are still insufficient responses to widespread division,
confrontation, and violence; therefore, religious, civil, and public sectors in
all Asian countries and the world have to act collaboratively to build a culture
of peace and non-violence.
We recognize significant international peace
efforts in the past as follows: Universal declaration of Human Rights, UN
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, The Geneva Conventions on the Protection
of Civilians; The Constitution of UNESCO on the need of education and culture
for peace, The Hague Appeal for Peace on initiatives for peace-making and
bottom-up globalization, and The 7th ACRP General Assembly on commitment to
making and building peace.
We participants call for urgent
mobilization of the spiritual, moral and social resources of religious
communities, civil societies, and governments in the process of good governance
and peace building. For this agenda, focusing on religious, civil, and public
sectors, we respectively recommend to consider the following action plans to
contribute to making and building a culture of peace through supporting peace
programs and activities.
Religious Communities
We share our
invaluable ideas and experiences for peace education in relation to religious
communities by overcoming any narrow and violent aspects of religious teachings
to promote human dignity and human rights by respecting each other's religious
traditions and cultures and to establish a harmonious global village: We
recommend each religious community to promote interfaith understanding and
encourage interfaith activities by developing academic curriculum and training
programs for leaders, teachers, and students; We recommend religious communities
to collaborate with civil societies, business sector, academic institutions, and
government to implement these peace education programs; We recommend religious
communities to share experiences and insights by networking through public
information such as internet, website, other media resources, and publications;
We recommend religious communities to create spaces for encounter through
conferences, youth exchange programs, participation to multi-religious
festivals, multi-religious pilgrimages and religious arts.
Civil
Societies
To actively build and support collaborative partnerships
between faith-based organisations, NGOs, governments and grass-root communities
to foster a culture of peace.
Develop an integrated, multi-faith and
multi-cultural approach to just, safe and peaceful communities that build on
local strengths and attributes and best practices (local and international) and
ensures joint responsibility and ownership.
Proposed Themes
Multi-faith dialogue Faith awareness Trauma healing Armed conflict
intervention Consensus building Gender sensitivities Conflict sensitive
journalism Reflecting on values and beliefs Violence & peace
sensitivities
- Advocacy Responsible tourism & fair trade Mainstreaming
and institutionalizing peace education
- Networking Rejuvenating space
retreat and reflection Dialogue project |
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Restorative Justice theory and practices
Developing common
perspective on peace education
Links with regional and international
organization
Peer education
Strategic analysis of local context and
resources
Awareness building on peace education |
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Multi-faith dialogue
Faith awareness
Trauma healing
Armed
conflict intervention
Consensus building
Gender sensitivities
Conflict sensitive journalism
Reflecting on values and beliefs
Violence & peace sensitivities |
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| Advocacy |
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Responsible tourism & fair trade
Mainstreaming and
institutionalizing peace education |
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Rejuvenating space retreat and reflection
Dialogue project |
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Public Sector
We recommend to ministries of education and
national organizations to integrate peace education into the curriculum of basic
and higher education. Peace education may include knowledge, skills and
abilities to live together, such as internal peace, tolerance, non-violence,
human rights, diversity, dialogue, conflict management, community service.
We recommend to ministries of education and national organizations
responsible for teacher training requirements to integrate pre-service and
in-service training in education for peace.
We recommend to ministries
of education and national organizations to develop learning materials on peace
education.
We recommend to relevant authorities to monitor the
implementation of policies related to peace education through on-going research
and evaluation.
We recommend collaboration between government and civil
society, including religious organizations such as KCRP, in planning,
implementing and monitoring of peace education programs.
Recognizing the
increasing awareness of nonviolent resistance and peace-building efforts, we
urge the religious communities to exercise leadership toward building peace in
Asia through affirming the values of justice, compassion, sustainability, and
well-being of all individuals, communities, and groups with different cultural,
religious, and ethnic backgrounds. We especially urge the leadership of KCRP and
ACRP, as interfaith bodies, to devote efforts to heal the past and build the
future by constructing a new way of life with spirituality, ethical authority
and social engagement.
We strongly ask the government, religious
communities, civil societies, and public sectors in Korea, with the support of
other sectors in Asia and institutions in the rest of the world to set up the
international peace education center. The Center will dedicate itself to raise
awareness of peace-consciousness in the public, to provide training for both
leaders and community, to build networks for conflict resolution and peace
education and to serve the Asian community as focal points for peace programs
and activities. |
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