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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the fifty-seventh Pugwash Conference,
in Bari, Italy, on 21 October
DISARMAMENT MUST REMAIN AT TOP OF AGENDA
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Three Lessons learned
United Nations study on disarmament and
non-proliferation education
A/57/124 of 30 August 2002
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Objectives of DNP education
Overall educational goal
GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT UNDER EFFECTIVE
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL
Manageable pedagogical goal
Process of disarmament
Steps to achieve it
Positive effects that disarmament has on security, international relations and socio-economic development
A “SIGNIFICANT SUBSET” OF DISARMAMENT EDUCATION
CONTRIBUTES TO THE ATTAINMENT OF
DISARMAMENT GOALS
NON-PROLIFERATION EDUCATION
Lesson 1: TEACHING DISARMAMENT IN CONTEXT
If it is to retain its relevance to the
security requirements of peoples and
States, disarmament and
non-proliferation education and training
must not be viewed in a vacuum but
rather integrated into a broad
perspective.From the UN Study
PEACE EDUCATION AGENDA
in framework of Culture of Peace• Conflict resolution communication, cross-cultural
understanding, tolerance of diversity• Non-violence• Economic justice• Gender equity• Environmental preservation• Demilitarization• Development• Human rights and international humanitarian law
What
a school-age child in a refugee camp needs
to know about disarmament is not the same
as what is required for a border guard, let
alone for a political official or a high school
teacher.
From the Summary to the UN Study
DISARMAMENT AFFAIRS
& HAGUE APPEAL for PEACE
4 COUNTRY / 4 CONTINENT
PROJECT
PEACE AND
DISARMAMENT
EDUCATION:
CHANGING
MINDSETS TO
REDUCE VIOLENCE
AND SUSTAIN THE
REMOVAL OF
SMALL ARMS
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Gramsh, Albania
With guns removed and the economy still struggling, small arms education was linked to the installation of
a computer laboratory in the high school
Kampong Chhnang, CambodiaArms education had to deal with
lingering attitudes of social violence and massive violations of human rights
N’Guigmi, Niger Former combatants
did on-the-job training in radio
broadcasting and young students
created a Flame of Peace
with knives collected at school (left)
San Juan de Lurigancho,
Lima, Peru
Arms and violence prevention go hand in hand with appreciation for indigenous cultural heritage in language and art
On the job training –
more than 700 UN Disarmament Fellows
since Programme began 28 years ago
UN Regional Centre for Disarmament and Peace in Asia and the Pacific
sponsored with Indonesia
a disarmament training programme
for the Indonesia foreign service and other government offices
Lesson 2Teachable moments
Since 2002 when report was adopted,
Catastrophic terrorism in Spain and UK
War in Afghanistan
War in Iraq
Threat of war with Iran
• WMD COMMISSION REPORT
Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms in 2006 presses for an acceptance of the principle that all nuclear weapons should be outlawed, as are chemical and biological weapons, within a reasonable time
• January 4 Editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Kissinger, Perry, Shultz and Nunn and others called for US leadership in moving the world to reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to non-proliferation
• And Gorbachev’s response on 31 January in WSJ stating “that nuclear weapons are no longer a means of achieving security: in fact, with every passing year they make our security more precarious.”
In January, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight
citing the threat of a second nuclear age and the expected consequences of climate
change
• The renewal of Trident in the United Kingdom came with an intense debate
• Former Foreign Secretary Mary Beckett stated publicly in June that what was needed was “both vision – a scenario for a world free of nuclear weapons. And action – progressive steps to reduce warhead numbers and to limit the role of nuclear weapons in security policy.”
Lesson 3
THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIPS
At all levels
Governments, United Nations,
Civil Society and Civic Organizations
UN-LiREC - Training
Citizen and public security
Law enforcement officials,
parliamentarians,
civil society
Partnering with • Governments • Swefor• CICAD• UNDP• Small Arms Survey• International Alert• Viva Rio• Fundación Arias • Save the Children Suecia
• OPANAL – training for decision-makers
• Culture of Peace Workshops for teachers and community leaders - working with UNESCO and NGO education partners
• University for Peace – rich resource centre for, among others, conflict resolution, gender mainstreaming
UN DPI – UNCyberschoolbus
Website on Nuclear disarmamentand Small arms Education
Launched in October 2007
Welcome to the new Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education web site. Disarmament and non-proliferation (DNP) are two goals set by the Member States of the United Nations to help maintain international peace and security and "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind." (Charter of the United Nations, 1945) ...
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/dnp/
UNIDIR’s
Educational
Resource for practitioners of disarmament
Universities
• Internships – CNS/MIIS
• June 2007 – Central American Conference with Oscar Arias – Quinnipiac and Albert Schweitzer Institute
• Internal staff training sessions – visiting professors
• Advisory Group on DNP Education
Smithsonian Institution
November 2007
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