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    from bazril on May 18, 2016 08:59 AM
    Ref: Disarmament - an Action Agenda!
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    KINDLY SPREAD!
    /Azril
    
    
    *IIPE at the IPB World Congress 2016 on Military and Social Spending*
    
     *“Disarm! For a Climate of Peace – Creating an Action Agenda”*
    
    
    *Technical University.  Berlin, Germany*
    
    *September 30-October 3, 2016*
    
    
    Learn more and register online at: www.ipb2016.berlin
    
    (Additional information will be on the IIPE website
    <http://www.i-i-p-e.org/> soon)
    
    
    
    The International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) is partnering with
    the International Peace Bureau (IPB), developing a special peace education
    strand on military and social spending at the IPB World Congress 2016.  The
    theme for the Congress is “Disarm! For a Climate of Peace – Creating an
    Action Agenda.” The IIPE will be participating in IPB’s congress in lieu of
    its normal week-long summer program.
    
    IIPE’s participation is intended to integrate educational perspectives,
    including formal and non-formal, public and community-based learning
    strategies, into the policy & citizen action recommendations generated at
    the Congress.  IIPE is also encouraging educators to participate in the
    Congress to learn from the experience and perspectives of activist and
    policy-maker counterparts.
    
    The aim of the IPB World Congress 2016 is to bring the issue of military
    spending, often seen as technical question, into the broad public debate
    and to strengthen our global community of activism regarding disarmament
    and demilitarization. Solutions to the enormous global challenges of
    hunger, jobs, and climate change can be significantly enhanced by real
    disarmament steps – steps that need to be clearly formulated and put into
    political reality.
    
    The objectives of the World Congress concern the connection between, on the
    one hand, the current global militarization and wars, and on the other, the
    need for a transformation of the war system. It becomes increasingly
    evident that without overcoming militarism and the dependence on
    militarized global and national security systems, a socio-ecological
    transformation with the goal of a just and equitable international social
    order cannot be achieved.
    
    Earlier work on the essential need for economic conversion and
    demilitarization has in recent years rarely been addressed by peace
    movements or by the social and educational organizations that embrace
    transformation as their primary goal. Illuminating the connection between
    militarism and socio-ecological transformation is the specific challenge to
    be addressed by IPB’s World Congress.
    
    Click here to download a press release from IPB about the 2016 Congress
    <http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PR_IPB.pdf>
    
    
    
    *Special IIPE organized events*
    
    *Introductory workshop: “Disarmament Education: Imperative for Peace”*
    
    The IIPE will convene a 2 ½ hour introductory workshop on disarmament
    education during the Congress.  This workshop, intended for activists,
    policy-makers and formal educators, will explore pedagogical strategies and
    action-learning approaches supporting the goals of disarmament education as
    identified by the Final Document of UNESCO’s World Congress on Disarmament
    Education
    <http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/world_congress_disarmament_ed.pdf>.
    In particular, we will examine *action-learning approaches *in which
    participants in civic and/or social action learn from reflecting on the
    strategies, methods, and experience of an action toward a desired change or
    achievement; assess the effectiveness of the action, and on the basis of
    this learning, and project the next phase of action toward the goal of
    disarmament and demilitarization.  These specific stages of the
    action/reflection process of politics as learning can be adapted to formal
    and non-formal learning settings.
    
    *½ day Workshop: “Disarmament Education: Imperative for Peace” *
    
    The IIPE will offer a special ½ day workshop on Monday, Oct 3.  Building
    upon the introductory workshop, this session will inquire more deeply into
    the process of action-learning approaches as transformative peace
    pedagogies and educational change strategies for disarmament and
    demilitarization as an educational means to achieving the goal of
    socio-ecological transformation and an equitable international social order.
    
    *Working Group on Peace Education*
    
    Following the workshop on October 3, the IIPE will convene a working group
    session exploring recent regional and global efforts and strategies for
    peace education.  Participation in the working group is open to all
    interested participants.  IIPE and Global Campaign for Peace Education
    community members are strongly encouraged to attend.  This event will also
    inaugurate a new biennial schedule for the IIPE intensive residential
    experiences in peace education.
    
    
    Should you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out!  We look forward
    to having a strong IIPE and peace educator presence at the IPB Congress!
    
    Best wishes,
    
    Tony - on behalf of the IIPE Secretariat (Betty, Dale & Janet)
    
    
    
    Tony Jenkins, PhD
    Director, Peace Education Initiative, The University of Toledo
    <http://www.utoledo.edu/education/peace>
    Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education
    <http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/>
    Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education
    <http://www.i-i-p-e.org/>
    
    Judith Herb College of Education
    The University of Toledo
    Mail Stop #921
    Toledo, OH  43606-3390  USA
    email: tony.jenkins@...
    tel: (419) 530-2552
    
    
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