Culture of Peace Initiative
Peace Practices - Peace Day September 21
The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) is a UN-designated "Peace Messenger Initiative" with participants in all the world's regions. Its purpose is to unite the strengths of organizations and individuals who are working to make Peace a practical reality. The highlight of the Initiative is International Day of Peace (Peace Day), which is celebrated ...learn more
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Created: Sep 14, 2007
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
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Jaana Laitinen
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I am currently working as an International Youth Facilitator at the Earth Charter International Secretariat, located at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace, in Costa Rica. I am a social scientist with a master’s level specialization on development and international cooperation. Before joining the Earth Charter International, I was employed by Plan Finland, one of the country’s largest development NGOs. In addition I have been working for Indian Eco-Village Development –project and interning for grassroots NGOs in Uganda and India. I am also a social entrepreneur running a small online craft business in Finland.
Learning how to realise being-in-the-world, rather than thinking of ourselves as being-apartfrom- the-world, is not easy and takes time. Educators can help themselves and students begin this work of re-orientation in a number of ways. Firstly, it is important to realise that thinking in verbal terms is likely to be as much part of the problem as part of the solution. In most circumstances the use of verbal language reinforces our sense of separation from the world because we tend to use words to divide and categorise experience, disconnecting us from ourselves and from the world. Although we need to think verbally in order to develop a strategy for being-in the-world and for reflecting critically upon our progress, we need to engage directly with experience, to enact change rather than to think about change.
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surendra singh virhe
utkarsh sansthan India
surendravirah@gmail.com