The culture of peace and non-violence is a commitment to peace-building, mediation, conflict prevention and resolution, peace education, education for non-violence, tolerance, acceptance, mutual respect, intercultural and interfaith dialogue and reconciliation.
BUILDING PEACE IN THE MINDS OF MEN AND WOMEN
CONSTRUIRE LA PAIX DANS L'ESPRIT DES HOMMES ET DES FEMMES
This commitment is at the very foundation of the United Nations, established after the “great and terrible” Second World War to create and maintain peace through economic, social or political agreements. But this is no longer enough today. The foundations of peace still need to be laid, with the help of the specialized agencies which make up the United Nations system such as UNESCO. For over 60 years, UNESCO took over that mission in conformity with its Constitution which asserts that, “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed”. In this regard, the same Constitution highlights that “a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind”.
LESSON PLANS and Classroom activities:
ACTIVITÉS ET RESSOURCES EN FRANÇAIS sur la culture de la paix et la non-violence
BUILDING PEACE IN THE MINDS OF MEN AND WOMEN
CONSTRUIRE LA PAIX DANS L'ESPRIT DES HOMMES ET DES FEMMES
This commitment is at the very foundation of the United Nations, established after the “great and terrible” Second World War to create and maintain peace through economic, social or political agreements. But this is no longer enough today. The foundations of peace still need to be laid, with the help of the specialized agencies which make up the United Nations system such as UNESCO. For over 60 years, UNESCO took over that mission in conformity with its Constitution which asserts that, “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed”. In this regard, the same Constitution highlights that “a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind”.
LESSON PLANS and Classroom activities:
- Group Activities on the School & Youth Pledge of Nonviolence
- WorldPeace.org (Australia): Peace Lesson Plans and Resources
ACTIVITÉS ET RESSOURCES EN FRANÇAIS sur la culture de la paix et la non-violence
- www.citoyendedemain.org
- Graines de paix: solutions éducatives pour une paix durable
- Les petits citoyens: vidéos et fiches à télécharger
- Association canadienne d'éducation en langue française. Banque de ressources pédagogiques sur la diversité culturelle et l'immigration