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GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE

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Towards a long-term framework on the culture of peace with young people in the South Caucasus
un article par Meg Villanueva

Let's get past the narrow views about young people. Youth are not just the “victims” of long- standing conflicts; we are also agents and actors that can help support and sustain the development of the peace process. I remember in 2011, when I spoke in an international event at the UN, and addressed some high level representatives that we are not just the future, but also the “present,” (after most of their speeches were all about us as the future!”)


Project coordinators get to know the different organisations through the Sandwichman activity

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In late 2010, I decided to do a mapping of different peacebuilding initiatives and social transformation projects led by young people across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. I realized that there were so many (and I mean SO MANY) segregated and dispersed initiatives on the theme of peace and conflict. There were just so many good initiatives and practices – but they were not connected to each other even though they share the same theme.

This has led to the idea and motivation of the project Youth Building Peace: Empowering the Caucasus, a global 2 year project to create a strong partnership among organisations in 8 countries in the EU and its neighboring South Caucasus region and to strengthen capacities of young people in the field of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and intercultural dialogue - using training and networking as principal tools.

Last 30 July – 06 August 2013, a Partnership Building Activity (PBA) was organised by Fundació Catalunya Voluntària in Barcelona, and brought together project coordinators/project managers and staff members from 22 organisations from 8 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain and Turkey). Done with the financial support of the Youth in Action Programme of the European Commission, and its Spanish National Agency, the PBA provided a space and time for all 22 organisations to get to know each other, engage in different dialogue activities that helped them understand each others work better and deeper.

As expected, the group realised that the work we were doing separately would make more sense when connected to each other. We are all working towards a similar vision of transforming our societies by empowering young people anyway, and so, why not join “forces” together and do something more long term and more meaningful?

During the 7-day meeting, we came up with three capacity-building activities which can hopefully be implemented within the next 12 months. These activities include:

- a seminar on strengthening the network by exploring concepts and themes of peacebuilding and how they relate to the work of the youth organisations represented (to be held in Georgia and hosted by the Academy for Peace and Development)

- a series of study visits (one in Armenia and another in Azerbaijan) to raise the partnership´s awareness about the context of young people líving there;

- a Training of Trainers on Peace Education, which will bring together trainers, multipliers and educators to explore different training and facilitating techniques and strategies (to be held in Turkey).

The main theme of the project is centered on the framework of the culture of peace and peace education. This means a broad definition of peace, which includes human rights, gender equality, sustainable development, democratic participation, conflict transformation, nonviolence, intercultural dialogue, etc.

For more information about the global project, please contact me at pau@catalunyavoluntaria.cat.

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Is there a renewed movement of solidarity by the new generation?,

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from Javier Collado Ruano, Director of Edition at Global Education Magazine, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity.

Solidarity is a trans-dimensional phenomenon that goes beyond the ontological essence of human nature. In fact, when we analyze the connections between the microcosm and the macrocosm, we perceive that human beings are not involved in chaos and arbitrariness, but belongs to the large network of interdependencies, complementarities and reciprocities that constitute life. The emergence of life on Earth, around 3,8 billion years ago, was a complex process of exceptional natural phenomena, inherent in all living systems. A process which is expressed through unlimited creativity: mutation, gene exchange, and symbiosis. From a cosmo-biological perspective, we can understand a new conceptual dimension of life, where all living beings share same basis of genetic code: the twenty amino-acids and four phosphatic bases. In fact, the diversity of living beings is caused by the combination of this cosmo-bio-genetic basis.

This trans-dimensional perspective has a deep ecological and spiritual sense for our worldview because the human evolutionary adventure is the latest stage of life on Earth. The modern human being is a vertebrate animal, mammal, belonging to the primates, which emerged 200,000 years ago. In recent centuries he has imposed its anthropocentric, industrial and capitalist vision to the detriment of Pachamama (and Indigenous goddess known as earth mother). We consume around 120% of the natural resources that Earth Mother regenerats annually. Our consumer behavior is immersed in a fatalistic dynamic with a destiny to climate change (deforestation, loss of biodiversity, ozone, etc.), and our own self-destruction as a species.

There is an urgent need to get beyond the cognitive fallacy that the mental structures of social Darwinism and capitalist postulates of the 19th century have historically constituted, because they only understand natural and social systems as warmongers and competitive processes whereby species diverge from each other. . ... continuation.


Cet article a été mis en ligne le August 31, 2013.