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ICAE’s
Seventh World Assembly, open to individuals and organisations that promote
the right to education for adults, A theme for analysis and proposals will be Conflict Resolution, Peace and Human Rights. Deliberations around this topic will be guided by common concerns around equality as the right for all to be treated with dignity; poverty eradication and the struggle to overcome such condition; gender justice understood as total equity for the fulfilment of human rights for women, including social, cultural, civic, reproductive, sexual and political ones; education as the framework in which these aims materialise; the recognition of the particular needs and contributions of indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, homosexual, bisexual and trans-gender people, ethnic minorities, displaced populations, refugees and populations historically discriminated, for whom the impact of conflicts is of a greater dimension. To build a global perspective in this respect implies to look at different alternatives and opportunities and search for new approaches in order to transform needs, social roles, responsibilities and aspirations that have been socially assigned to men and women. In these new approaches their expectations and relations will not be framed within a patriarchal and sexist perspective biased in favour of one or the other. That is why education is a constant and permanent need in order to have access to such alternatives. But the lack of educational coverage, state non-implementation, unemployment, lack of resources, health problems, child labour and the little importance that the population attributes to education together with the patriarchal schemes have segregated men and –specially- women for a long time from exercising this right. Principles as equality, eradication of poverty and gender justice must be incorporated into the right of education for peace in as far as this is a fundamental right. Education for peace must transform these principles into social articulators that support processes of living together and exercising public freedoms. In this way human rights and democracy become real and concrete. Those in power and who define how social behaviors owe to be tend to refer to marginalized groups as marginal and clandestine; but education with the principles described above can overcome the situation of marginalization in which their current reality has placed them, particularly due to the low attention given to their needs and their minimal participation in social projects. 1. Justification The Assembly will reaffirm the right to learn throughout life, it will highlight the great value of adult education as a tool to strengthen human beings in their struggle against poverty, inequality, discrimination and exclusion; it will analyze the specific contributions that adult education can make towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and other development objectives agreed upon by the international community. A three-hour round table around this theme (that will also be presented at the WSF) will try to identify the role that education for peace and the exercise of human rights can play in the understanding of conflicts (economic, social, political and cultural) and in the possible steps for overcoming them. It also aims at analysing the contributions and experiences of various organisations and movements working from the perspective of education for peace in conflict and post-conflict zones. It will highlight the lessons learnt in these processes and the promotion of convergence and solidarity actions with the affected communities. A concept of education for peace will be promoted that:
These aims in themselves justify the need for the organisation of these round tables because the theme does not have much visibility in the debates around educational needs of adults and they contain elements that obstruct the fulfilment of human rights. 3. Topics for analysis, debate and proposals
CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS, PEACE
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
He is
member of the Brazilian Commission for Justice and Peace, member and founder
of the Transparency Association in Brazil, founder of the World Social Forum
and at present he forms part of the World Social Forum International
Council, he is the author of the book “Challenges of the World Social Forum”
where he narrates the history of this process which represents the biggest
social initiative at global level. “CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS”Dr. Budd Hall: Director, Office of Community – Based Research - Senior Fellow, Centre of Global Studies. Canada. bhall@uvic.ca
“Learning
and Hope: After Violence and War.
What Next?” “A traveling school: an rapprochement from the meaningful learning to the peace construction. The experience of the Ruta Pacífica de Mujeres Colombia”. Dra. Margo Okazawa-Re, Research Consultant Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling. mor@sfsu.edu
“Engaging the Head, Hands, and Heart: Education for Liberation and
Transformation”
Dr. David
Silvera,
Chairman
of the Israel Adults Education Association
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