Creating a Culture of Peace
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The creation of a culture of peace (CCP) is a nationwide plan for region-based peacebuilding. The innovative design of CCP provides a comprehensive and practical foundation for aggressive non-violence based on spirit. Participants recognize that they are not extreme and malicious confrontation, they have the ability to make personal and social transformations without violence and to respect respect for skills to contact others.
Unlike training focused solely on anti-war protests, CCP training involves issues most concerned by participants - collective controversy and conflict, neighborhood violence, domestic violence, climate change, war and militarism, discrimination, video games , Home, peace education, and health care
The training is very participatory and does not rely on reading books and lectures. It takes advantage of all participants 'wisdom, experience and talent as well as trainers' skills and knowledge. Storytelling, meditation, group sharing, brainstorming, role playing, exercises to stimulate thinking, music, and activities to learn from each other. CCP provides training on nonviolence principles, social change and community formation analysis, and peace skills and resource establishment. Each team selects and plans a specific project for change
A handbook based on UNESCO's philosophy of creating a culture of peace, including practical advice on activities. The first part, "Exploring our Nonviolent Culture?" Explains the meaning of nonviolent culture, the historical basis, and the promotion of nonviolent practices. Part 2 "Understanding the culture of violence" focuses on understanding conflict, hatred, militarism and nurturing leadership to overcome these elements in society. Contains articles, resources, and materials that can be copied
Many organizations in Canada and around the world recognize the central role of education in building a world culture of peace and nonviolence. Developing resources to help educators and school administrators practice peace education in our schools is an important step in the process of creating peace growing culture. Education is the heart of a peace-building strategy. These values, skills and knowledge constitute the spirit of the group and nations, respect for the principles of human rights and democracy, the refusal of violence and personal tolerance, understanding and mutual appreciation.
The concept of peace also has an important cultural aspect. Traditionally, "for many people in the western world peace is often considered an external condition, in other cultures peace is also related to inner peace (our thoughts and peace of mind) For example, in the Mayan tradition, peace refers to the concept of welfare, which is related to the idea of a perfect balance between the various fields of our lives.Therefore peace is the process of our inner and outer processes It should be considered as affecting.
In a world that interdependent globally, peace research must include how to create peaceful vision and peace in different cultures of the world, and people will talk to each other in these different ways of peace there is. Peace studies need to explore how various cultures (and religions) and their underlying values (usually unconsciously) affect the influence on peoples from different cultures studying peace there is. How does the meaning of what they want to create, and their positive meaning, and how they influence people's belief that the culture itself can change their living conditions in the outside world. In short, Western culture is called "culture" while Oriental culture is called "culture", pointing out the danger of being overly generalized. Peace may demand these two views of the 21st century
Spirit, religion, culture, peace: to explore the foundation of peace inside and outside the 21st century