{"id":783,"date":"2015-03-20T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/temp\/?page_id=783"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:04:59","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?page_id=783","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<div class=\"page style\" style=\"width:80%;\">\n<p align=justify><big>The Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN) is a project of the <a href=\"?page_id=752\">Global Movement for a Culture of Peace<\/a>, initiated by the <a href=\"?page_id=750\">United Nations<\/a>, where readers exchange information about events, experiences, books, music, and web news that promote a culture of peace.   <\/p>\n<p>CPNN is owned and managed by the Culture of Peace Corporation, based in France and composed of youth teams, including:<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8211; those who edited the <a href=\"https:\/\/decade-culture-of-peace.org\/2010_civil_society_report.pdf\">World Civil Society Report <\/a> for the United Nations Decade on the Culture of Peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; as well as other youth who have worked as reporters on CPNN and\/or worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/decade-culture-of-peace.org\/report\/YouthReport.pdf\">Youth for Culture of Peace Report <\/a> for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the United Nations Unit created as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The founder and president of the Corporation is <a href=\"http:\/\/culture-of-peace.info\">David Adams<\/a>, who initiated CPNN at UNESCO during the 1990s (see his <a href=\"http:\/\/decade-culture-of-peace.org\/blog\">blog<\/a>).<\/big><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 46%;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela-1024x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela-1024x621.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Compostela.jpg 1596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><big>Youth team for the world report in 2011<\/big><br \/>\nFrom left to right: Advisors Alicia Cabezudo and David Adams: Youth team Marcos Estrada (Brazil), Shreya Jani (India), Meg Villanueva (Philippines), Lilian Solheim (Norway), Oliver Rizzi Carlson (Switzerland), Johanna Ospina (Colombia) and Cecile Barbeito (Spain)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Board-names.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Board-names.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"734\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Board-names.jpg 789w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Board-names-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Board-names-768x714.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nclick on photo for enlargement\n<\/div>\n<div stye=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 95%;\">\n<p><big>CPNN was launched at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture-of-peace.info\/history\/page32.html\">UNESCO in 1998<\/a>, and then continued from 2002 until 2007 by <a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/usa-homepage.html\">CPNN-USA<\/a> in the United States as well as CPNN-Japan.  CPNN-USA is now incorporated into <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\">CPNN-WORLD<\/a>, while CPNN Japan has been discontinued.   The United Nations General Assembly in its annual resolutions during the Culture of Peace Decade, recognized CPNN in <a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/resolutions\/A-61-45.pdf\">operative paragraph 9<\/a> and calls for its expansion as a global network of Internet sites in many languages.<\/p>\n<p>An article about CPNN as a <a href=\"http:\/\/culture-of-peace.info\/vita\/2011\/journal_peace_education.html\">case study of education for a culture of peace <\/a> was published by the Journal of Peace Education.<\/p>\n<p><center>JOIN OUR TEAM OF REPORTERS <\/center><\/p>\n<p>We continue to look for volunteer reporters from all regions of the world.  Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?page_id=789\">here<\/a> to know more. <\/p>\n<p>To begin with, you are invited to <a href=\"?page_id=781\">write<\/a> a peace report of your own according to the <a href=\"?page_id=785\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPNN rules of the game<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You and\/or your organisation are invited to become a partner of CPNN.  Please <a href=\"?page_id=37\">click here<\/a> and contact us.<\/big><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN) is a project of the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace, initiated by the United Nations, where readers exchange information about events, experiences, books, music, and web news that promote a culture of peace. CPNN is owned and managed by the Culture of Peace Corporation, based in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?page_id=783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-783","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}