Side Events

Annual meeting of Abolition 2000

a global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons (29.-30. Sept)

Chain Reaction: breaking free from nuclear weapons

– final event in a series of grassroots actions around the world for nuclear disarmament, (8 July –2 Oct)

             Outdoor symbolic Action by Unfold Zero

Half-day Workshop: “Disarmament Education: Imperative for Peace”

(3 Oct, 9am – 1pm | Room 3005) by IIPE – International Institute on Peace Education 

Half-day Workshop: “Exploring recent regional and global efforts and strategies for peace education”

(3 Oct, 2-6pm | Room H3005) by IIPE – International Institute on Peace Education and GCPE – Global Campaign for Peace Education

Movie “Beyond Revenge” documentary film

(Sunday, Oct 2nd 4.30 pm) World Premiere by Luz Jahnen and Alvaro Orus

Movie “Conflict and Climate Change” & Literature Stal

by MAW – Movement for the Abolition of War, UK

 

 

Beyond Revenge (World Premiere | documentary film)

Posted on by October 2, 2016

Sunday 2nd Oct 2016

4.30 | H 0105

beyond-revenge“Beyond Revenge” is a novel treatment on the archaic – and at same time redhot – topic of the vengeance; relating the personal with the social and the
historic. Immerge in the history of western culture to find the way how vengeance became institutionalized and how it was possible to become a constitutive part of our actual culture, including art and religion.
But the impacting force of the documentary is in the testimonies of people who became aware of how vengeance was affecting them profoundly in their lives
and they share with us courageously their experiences and their comprehensions.

The director, Álvaro Orus, and producer, Luz Jahnen will be present to chat afterwards to those present.

Half-day Workshop: “Disarmament Education: Imperative for Peace” (Monday, Oct. 3: 9am – 1pm | Room: H 3005)

Posted on by September 27, 2016

The UNESCO World Congress conception of the basic Aim of Disarmament Education is “… how to think about disarmament rather than what to think about it. Disarmament education should therefore be problem-centered so as to develop the analytical and critical capacity to examine and evaluate practical steps towards the reduction of arms and the elimination of war as an acceptable international practice (“World Congress on Disarmament Education: Report and Final Document,” Section II.A.8.); and that Human beings interpret and understand experience, including values and moral and political choices, through frames of reference, which include employing methodologies of reflective inquiry, in order for future citizens to learn how to think, they need to be exposed to various frameworks and methodologies of thinking within particular domains of reflective understanding.

Disarmament and social transformation toward a climate of peace require a shift in security and world order paradigms (the frameworks of thought that justify and legitimate various strategies and actions pertaining to governmental policy, including the development and deployment of military force). In turn, peace and disarmament education should entail an understanding of and reflective inquiry into historical, current, and alternative security and world order paradigms.

Regarding the consideration of peace and disarmament, we can look to and reflect upon the frames of reference that have historically guided understanding and practice of security and world order. While acknowledging the multi-dimensionality of the issue, this reflection will be focused on both ethical and critical reflective inquiry.

Based upon the above orientation the workshop will engage participants in the process of ethical reflective inquiry regarding paradigms of security and world order, and its implications for disarmament. This engagement will model a pedagogy of ethical reflective inquiry that can be replicated in a number of different educational contexts.

The workshop will engage participants in the process of ethical reflective inquiry regarding paradigms of security and world order, and its implications for
disarmament. This engagement will model a pedagogy of ethical reflective inquiry that can be replicated in a number of different educational contexts.

Half-day Workshop: “Exploring recent regional and global efforts and strategies for peace education” (3 Oct, 2 – 6pm | Room H 3005)

Posted on by September 27, 2016

The IIPE, in partnership with the Global Campaign for Peace Education

The aim is to explore and illuminate regional and global efforts and strategies for peace education. It will build upon the workshops to enquire more deeply into the process of action-learning approaches. Participants will consider their own spheres of activity as well as our peace education collective network to develop practical strategies and actions based on the “Declaration of Principles for Alternative Security” and the “Critical and Constructive Alternatives Platform for Action.” 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.