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International Institute on Peace Education 2012
un article par IIPE
The 2012 International Institute on Peace
Education (IIPE) will be hosted at the National
Women's Education Center (NWEC) near Tokyo, Japan,
from August 11-19, 2012. This year's Institute is
being organized in partnership with the National
Peace Academy (home of the IIPE secretariat) and
the Global Campaign for Peace Education Japan
(GCPEJ) cooperating witha consortium of other
national organizations invested in furthering
peace education in Japan including the Society for
Building a Culture of Peace.
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For thirty years, IIPE has brought together
educators, professional workers and activists in
the field of peace education,gathered from around
the world to exchange experiences and learn with
and from each other in an intensive short-term
learning community that embodies the practices and
principles of critical, participatory peace
pedagogy. IIPE 2012 participants, many whom will
be drawn from Japan and S.E. Asia, will join with
representatives from all other world regions.
This residential learning exchange will weave
together experiential and theoretical
contributions of participants to illuminate
diverse views, explore educational applications,
and assess possibilities for practical steps
toward a less violent and more just world security
system.
Japan's recent coping with the environmental
disasters of the March 2011 earthquake and
tsunami, and the consequent nuclear meltdown
resulting in ecological health crises and economic
emergencies are relevant issues for people
everywhere. In light of these concomitant crises,
the IIPE 2012 peace learning community will
inquire into human security possibilities for
addressing current global emergencies in
ecological imbalance, energy reconfiguring, and
gapping economic inequities. Human security and
sustainability are fundamental to peace as "a
long-term and gutsy project...[that] requires
social conditions that foster individual and
societal well-being...surfaces differing
perspectives and needs...[and] is an opportunity
to rethink and reshape the prevailing status quo."
IIPE participants are invited into an inquiry on
how peace education and participatory learning
communities can contribute to the human security
and integrity of societies-regional, local and
global; and what values, capacities, skills and
practices can support protection, prevention and
provision in emergencies. The IIPE program will
comprise thematic and interrelated participant-led
presentations, workshops and discussions with some
special emphasis on learning from the Japanese
experience. Sub-themes such as human security,
the abolition of nuclear weapons, gender
imbalance, capacity building, youth participation,
and Japan-U.S. and Japan-Asia relations and their
potential contributions to positive alternatives
to the present interstate security system will be
incorporated into the learning exchange.
Science educator Dr. Willard Jacobson asked, "What
are our societal responsibilities? What
responsibilities do we have for those who have
less than enough? What responsibilities do we have
to for the generations to come?" These questions
can help formulate human security alternatives to
the dominant security concepts and policies that
effect emergency prevention, protection and
provision for current global emergencies. Peace,
human well-being and ecological sustainability are
also under severe threat from multiple current
wars and militarized conflict zones, the arms
trade and proliferation of nuclear weapons, and
rampant violence committed by state and non-state
actors.
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) liée(s) à cet article:
How do we promote a human rights, peace based education?,
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Question: what is the relation between peace and education?
http://cpnn-world.org/new/?p=4780
We teach the science of war on an even and equal basis with the 3Rs and we maintain it with more resources than any other school. Further, we have done this consistently for a couple of thousand years, long before education was institutionalized for all children. And we have never questioned the wisdom of teaching millions of civilians how to kill while never giving the same credence, or any for that matter, to the science of peace, the study of anti-war, of reconciliation. With this inured mindset leaders choose to fund boot camps and officer training colleges and by omission deprive youth of the better choice.
If we can teach war and violence with such commitment to suit the purposes of generals and the arms trade, where are the rest of us who have a greater need for peace and conciliation than anyone anywhere has for the killing fields? Why have civilians not demanded peace education long ago and why don't we have it now?
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