International CRE Resources
New Global Conflict Resolution Education (CRE)/ Peace Education (PE) Survey Now Available
Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) / Peace Education (PE)
Request for Resources/ Examples
The Global Issues Resource Center, in cooperation with the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), The Peace Education and Conflict Education Reference Group, and the International Network for Conflict Resolution Education/ Peace Education (INCREPE) are collecting information to post on this global website.
We request your assistance in collecting examples, resources, and information on the following topics:
* Global Conflict Resolution Education (CRE)/ Peace Education (PE) Projects
* Cultural Aspects of CRE/PE
* International Success Examples
* World News and Events
* International CRE/PE Resources
Sharing your valuable knowledge, experience, and resources on these topics will assist others working to advance CRE/PE projects worldwide. We encourage you to share your knowledge; this survey and the resulting posts will provide easy and free access to valuable information to communities around the globe.
Peace Education (PE)/Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) can be defined as teaching children and adults how to manage conflict effectively and giving them life skills that will empower them to be happier, more successful and well-adjusted citizens.
The website is devoted to the promotion of CRE/PE throughout the world. The website’s goals are:
* to serve as a clearinghouse of information on developments in the CRE/PE field including policy and legislation, current research, service delivery initiatives and organizations, in related fields
* to promote best practice in the field of CRE/PE by defining the field, its components, and accomplishments
* to provide CRE/PE instructional materials to formal and informal educators
* to provide a comprehensive network linking CRE/PE related organizations, professionals, policy makers, and educators working with CRE/PE
* to develop global interest in CRE/PE and promote global developments in CRE/PE
* Encourage evaluation of CRE/PE through provision of evaluation materials and models
To contribute information for this project, please get your copy of the survey here.
Thank you in advance for your support and contributions to this important project. We look forward to receiving your responses.
Caribbean Link For Child Development Newsletter, July 2008
The following is an exerpt from the Caribbean Link for Child Development July, 2008 Newsletter:
A RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE – IN THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN
It is time we place less emphasis on children as agents of the future – future actors and decision makers (citizens, consumers, and voters) and focus on children as “the present”, here and now, valued individuals whose current well-being and opinions are paramount.
Over the last 20 years, we have become familiar with The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which was ratified in 1989. Most of us are aware of its provisions, we understand that it promotes the best interests of children, and increasingly, we are seeing this global consensus gives children rights that are legally binding. But international agreements and government commitments alone cannot fulfill the promise of improving the situation of children. We cannot effectively address children’s issues, establish research agendas, allocate resources and implement effective policies and programmes without first understanding the rights and responsibilities that are central to each and every issue.
Good governance of children’s issues requires a coordinated multi-sectoral approach, not one that is characterized by inter-agency responsibility-shifting but rather by collaboration that efficiently brings together agencies, expertise, children’s viewpoints and resources to develop, implement, and evaluate policies and programmes on a regular basis. The CRC provides a holistic framework for viewing, analyzing, and addressing the immediate and future challenges our children face, which include the establishment of regulations and monitoring systems that equally apply to public and private stakeholders whose decisions and actions impact on children (from birth to 18 years).
Children’s voices and opinions, including those of the young and most vulnerable, should no longer be ignored in planning and implementation as their needs have been transformed into the realm of human rights. The sooner we adjust our own individual and collective new mindset as “duty-bearers”, the sooner we will gain fresh perspectives and innovative ways of dealing with children’s issues.
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