To achieve Peace in cities through the use of URBAN PEDAGOGY, promoting DEMOCRATIC AWARENESS, fostering initiatives towards the attainment of a CULTURE OF PEACE, especially among children and young people.
"Education in social diversity and for international peace, understanding and cooperation will be promoted; an education which avoids exclusion on the basis of race, sex, culture, age, disability, economic status or any other grounds for discrimination." Principle 1. Charter International Association of Educating Cities.
Our mission:
To promote citizens participation in order to achieve a true Culture of Peace through Education for Democracy and Education for Peace in urban spaces. We involve children and youth in the construction of more peaceful cities; Educating Cities considers children and young people as the main actors of city life and community building
Objectives:
**To promote Education for Peace and Human Rights, especially in the sphere of cities and in non-formal education, to foster reflection about the causes of the absence of Peace in cities.
** Work permanently for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence in cities, with specific attention on the use of public space as a forum for peace building.
** Work cooperatively with local governments, NGOs, national and international governmental organizations as well as with other actors of civil society.
ACTIVITIES
My city and the world programme:
ü Correspondence and Pen-Pal System
ü Life-Link Friendship School Program
ü Global Campaign for Peace Education Hague Appeal for Peace – Youth Program
ü School Network connected by common projects
ü Visits of students and teachers among Educating Cities
Give Peace a Chance Programme
The City and the Rights of Its People Programme,
· Course: "BASIS OF EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: A proposal to build Citizenship, Culture of Peace and Human Rights in our World Today" Rosario, Argentina, February- May 2002. II International Congress on Education, Science and Culture of Peace, Buenos Aires - Rosario, Argentina. 16-20 September 2002.
· Travelling seminars:
Ø Seminar "Educating Cities: A Proposal for local governments".
Ø Seminar: "Non Formal Education: With Whom, what for, how? Theoretical and methodological criteria from the territory of Educating Cities".
Ø Seminar: "The City in the Museum".
Ø Seminar- Workshop: "Tools to work the city s history and architectural patrimony".
Ø Seminar: "The city s memory: the history of neighbourhoods".
Ø Seminar "Contemporary Art and Human Rights".
Training programme:
Bearing in mind our objectives for peace education, we invited young people who are already working in various projects to participate in an intensive Human Rights Training Programme that lasted 4 months: February – May 2002.
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