Education for Peace Program

Introduction

The Education for Peace Program has its origins in an initiative presented by the delegation of Bolivia to the Organization of American States during the preparatory work for the Regional Conference on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures, held in Santiago, Chile, in 1995. In the Declaration of Santiago on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures, adopted during that Conference, the member states agreed to recommend the implementation of education for peace programs as a confidence- and security-building measure.

The Committee on Hemispheric Security in 1999 approved a draft resolution to be presented to the Permanent Council and the General Assembly to convene a meeting of experts on the topic. The meeting was held in Cartagena, Colombia, on October 14 and 15, 1999. In addition to the government experts, UNESCO, FLACSO, the Inter-American Defense College, and the University for Peace were among those who participated in the meeting and provided written contributions. At the end of the meeting, a draft Education for Peace Program was approved.

Reports

Reports of 2000:

Report by the Chair of the Committee on Hemispheric Security on the Program on Education for Peace in the Hemisphere CP/CSH-306/00

Reports of 1999:

Notes for the Conclusions and Recommendations of the Meeting of Government Experts to Design a Draft Program of Education for Peace in the Hemisphere CP/CSH-229/99 rev. 3

Report by the Chair of the Committee on Hemispheric Security on the Program on Education for Peace in the Hemisphere CP/CSH-184/99

Guidelines for Drawing up a Program of Education for Peace in the Hemisphere (Document prepared by the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy and considered by the Committee at its meeting of January 21, 1999) 
CP/CSH-160/99 rev. 1

Reports of 1998:

Proposed Program on Education for Peace in the Hemisphere (Document presented by the Consultant, Gloria Pachon de Galan) CP/CSH-101/98

Reports of 1997:

Statement by the First Vice-Chair of the Committee on Hemispheric Security on the Education for Peace Program CP/CSH - 89/97

 

General Assembly resolutions

 

Meeting of Government Experts to Design a Draft Program of Education for Peace in the Hemisphere   Agenda Draft Program of Education for Peace in the Hemisphere REPEP/doc.9/99 rev. 1

Meeting of Government Experts to Design a Draft Program of Education for Peace in the Hemisphere

 

Towards a Culture of Confidence and Democratic Coexistence (Document presented by the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the OAS) CP/CSH-225/99

Issues for Consideration in Building the Program (Document submitted by the Permanent Mission of Colombia) CP/CSH-235/99

Violence, Democracy and Education: An Analytic Framework (Paper presented by the World Bank) REPEP/doc.6/99

United Nations - University for Peace (Paper presented by the University for Peace)
REPEP/doc.7/99 spanish

Teaching for Peace and Democracy (Informative document presented by the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy of the General Secretariat of the OAS)
REPEP/doc.8/99