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Contact: John Emmanuel

Participants at UNESCO workshopWednesday, January 19, 2000 - Scores of principals and teacher coordinators affiliated to UNESCO's Associated Schools Project Network met Thursday for a training and information workshop aimed at shedding increased light on their roles and functions in promoting a Culture of Peace.

The Associated Schools Project is an international initiative funded by UNESCO aimed at promoting peace, understanding and cooperation through educational projects.

Secretary General for the UNESCO National Commission Shery Alexander Heinis says, although the National Commission provides guidelines principals and teachers are given leeway to conceptualise their own projects. Shery Alexander-Heinis

"The thing about the ASP is that it allows one to be creative and innovative. Hence, the reasons for letting principals and teachers come up with their own ideas as to how to address problems. In so doing they would first of all need to identify what are the problems in their schools and identify projects that can solve those problems," Heinis said.

Among the suggestions put forward by the National Commission are designated peacekeepers and peace zones within schools. A Peace Pack has also been prepared containing manuals and other teaching aids for principals and teachers to assist them in reducing violence in the school system.

Education Minister the Hon. Mario Michel says his ministry stands firmly behind the initiative, given the increasing tendency to resort to violence in settling conflicts both in society and within schools. "It is my hope therefore that out of this training and information workshop today, the principals and teachers involved with the Associated Schools Project, will become better equipped to help inculcate in our students the values of peace, tolerance and international understanding and will be better positioned to instill a spirit of peace in the class rooms, on the play grounds and in the entire school environment," Michel said.

The school-based project currently groups over five thousand schools worldwide. The United Nations has dubbed the year 2000 as the International Year for the Culture of Peace.

 

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