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Human peace sign - symbolically represents an holistic approach to peacebuilding.. Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict.
Its work is bringing together "faith groups, religious leaders, and teachers to promote peace and sustainability". [86] In 2011, President Obama issued the Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge by sending a letter [87] to all presidents of institutions of higher education in the United States. The goals of the Challenge included ...
I am thankful for a peaceful awakening each morning. But I am also reminded that this peace we enjoy in this country is nothing to be smug about.
The Culture of Peace News Network, begun at UNESCO as part of the International Year for the Culture of Peace, has been continued as a source of news of events that promote the goals of the Culture of Peace. It is updated more or less daily with articles from around the world promoting at least one of the eight program areas of the Culture of ...
Peace education programs centered on raising awareness of human rights typically focus on policies that humanity ought to adopt to move closer to a peaceful global community. The aim is to engender a commitment among participants to a vision of structural peace in which all individual members of the human race can exercise personal freedoms and ...
The mission of the Peace Alliance is to establish a culture of peace through civic engagement. [2] Examples of their work include legislative efforts such as bills to establish a Department of Peace, and to address youth violence through the Youth PROMISE Act (S. 1318, H.R. 1307), as well as direct efforts within local communities to work on peaceful resolution of problems such as bullying in ...
The IAPMC has been extensively involved in numerous peace campaigns, banning of anti-personnel landmines campaign, nuclear non-proliferation, human rights, and has attracted substantial public awareness in peacemaking efforts of the United Nations Organization, Economic and Social Council, Department of Public Information and other bodies.
The action plan for the Decade proposes eight spheres of activities in which to work for the promotion of the Culture of Peace: To reinforce a culture of peace through education; To promote economically and socially sustainable development; To promote the respect of all human rights; To ensure the equality between women and men