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OWW 2010: Peacing Together One World
Creating a Culture of Peace for our Children
Here we explore ideas relating to the theme that you might want to use in your events. For ideas about how you might develop these into activities go to Practical Guidance
The UN “International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World” ends in 2010. One World Week is using this as the focus for our 2010 theme, ‘Peacing Together One World’.
UNESCO defined eight action areas for the Decade, recognising that each would contribute to building a culture of peace for our children. One World Week is concentrating on the three areas most closely related to it's vision and aims:
- Promoting sustainable economic and social development
- Promoting respect for all human rights
- Advancing understanding, tolerance and solidarity
A culture of peace can be established at many levels:
- through personal inner peace;
- peace within the family;
- harmony within the community, between communities and accross faiths;
- justice and non-violence on a global scale.
One World Week aims to help you explore all these aspects and provide you with a range of resources and ideas as you plan your 2010 events.
With this in mind you may wish to consider:
- What is a culture of peace?
- What is inner peace and is it important?
- What can we do to help establish peace in our homes, our schools, our local communities?
- Is peace possible without justice?
- How can we live our own lives sustainably? What can we do to support sustainable development with economic and social justice globally?
- How can we fulfil our responsibilities to respect human rights?
- What can we do to advance understanding, to move beyond tolerance to respect, celebration of diversity, friendship and solidarity?
- What kind of world are we creating for our children – one filled with fear, conflict and injustice or one based on respect, caring and cooperation?
For more about UNESCO's programme for a Culture of Peace go to: http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/uk/uk_sum_cp.htm
Click here for the 2010 "Peacing Together One World" leaflet. Other images and resources are in development, watch this space for more information!
Remember, One World Week exists to provide the space for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to challenge inequality, discrimination and degradation, locally and globally. Let 2010 be the year that we begin to create a lasting culture of peace for future generations.
Click here to download an A4 printable version of this page now, to use in your planning meetings.
Videos and photos of events
We intend to share and celebrate all the fantastic work that you are doing by putting up photos and videos on the website this year. The plan is to expand the existing photo gallery and create a new space for video clips.
Please do continue to send in photos, articles and video clips and we shall attempt to put them onto the website.
The best way to do this is to email them to the office giving clear references where necessary.
For more information on video clips go to Video Challenge.
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