{"id":21749,"date":"2020-11-02T06:26:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21749"},"modified":"2020-11-02T06:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:28:38","slug":"un-75-online-festival-in-uk-peace-and-security-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21749","title":{"rendered":"UN 75 online festival in UK : Peace and security workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION<\/p>\n

Based on information from Announcement of online festival for UN 75th anniversay<\/a> and workshop results received by email from David Wardrop<\/p>\n

A festival marking the UN\u2019s 75th anniversary and addressing the overwhelming insecurity induced by Covid-19 was sponsored on October 18 and 24 by the United Nations Association of London, Peace Child International and the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation. Here are the results from the peace and security workshop.<\/p>\n

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For improvements in issues such as health, food, the economy and the environment and digital transparency and equity to gain a firm hold in the community, the presence of peace is vital. To show how we approach this challenge, we use the UN\u2019s Culture of Peace Initiative <\/a> to break down peace into manageable elements. These are Education for Peace; Sustainable Development; the Equality of Women; Human Rights; Disarmament and Security; Democratic Participation; Tolerance and Solidarity; and the Free Flow of Information. The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2001-2010 to be the UN Decade for the Culture of Peace. <\/p>\n

1 \tEducation for Peace<\/strong>
\nNeed for capacity development Education, by its nature, shapes and transforms society, playing a key role in peacebuilding. Capacity development <\/a> issues for conflict prevention should aim to improve individual skills and organisational procedures, mitigating the risk of conflict. It must also assist educational planners on conflict prevention measures<\/a> , ensuring they have skills and knowledge necessary for the development of curricula that reflect principles of peacebuilding, tolerance and human rights.
\nStrengthening the role of youth Education policy-makers and planners can benefit from emerging thinking on how young people learn to adapt their education and training systems as part of the technological age<\/a>, and thereby help them become leaders and role models in society both within and outside school. Youth can be mobilised to contribute to conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities with different groups of students, acting as mentors and mediators to younger children <\/a> and peers, participating in intra-community projects, especially in sensitive areas, and humanitarian and emergency aid, taking on electoral responsibilities<\/a>, and managing cultural of peace centres. <\/p>\n

2\tSustainable Development<\/strong><\/a>
\nSecurity Council: an obstacle The UN Security Council\u2019s delay in support the Secretary-General\u2019s call for a Global Ceasefire <\/a> shocked all, especially as UNICEF reported 250 million children caught in the armed conflict. That impasse hindered sustainable development in many ways. The UN\u2019s 70-years old Uniting for Peace resolution<\/a>, first used in 1950 when the Security Council failed to act, allows the General Assembly to take over in such cases and \u2018use all means to maintain international peace and security\u2019. Further use of the Uniting for Peace option could make it clear to the five permanent member states that they should reform – or get out of the way.
\nSmart Sustainable Cities <\/a> In 30 years, 70%\u202fof us\u202fwill live in cities so the\u202fSmart Sustainable Cities\u202fproject offers an effective solution to the world\u2019s growing population. By integrating technology with sustainable management strategies, we can utilise resources more efficiently. A healthier environment, optimised traffic flow and sanitation systems, can give cities in developed and developing countries the chance to reduce the knowledge gap. This resonates with the UN\u2019s SDGs,<\/a> and with civic leadership, an important condition for the Culture of Peace Initiative is secured.<\/p>\n

3\tEquality of Women<\/strong><\/a>
\nWomen on the front foot Whereas the UN\u2019s challenge had traditionally been the protection of women, it agreed in 2000 <\/a> a new approach, to bring women to the forefront in overcoming the challenges to peace, especially in peacekeeping. In 1993, women made up 1% of UN peacekeepers, now 6%, and 10% in UN police but for 2028, it plans <\/a> to raise these to 15%, and 20% in police units. To expedite this, the UN will bring in better recruitment, retention and training and provide better accommodation, sanitation, health care and protective equipment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Women on the front line These initiatives help women from the communities where the UN peacekeepers are deployed. The claim, once thought as extravagant, that \u2018There is no sustainable peace without the full and equal participation of women\u2019 is now accepted. In Sudan, it was brave women <\/a> who were the driving force in the protest movement. In African SADC states<\/a> , 50% of election candidates must be women. Women leaders in African states <\/a> are true game changers. We must support them. <\/p>\n

4\tHuman Rights<\/strong><\/a>
\nSupport the UN Peacebuilding Commission<\/a> Early operationalising of pre-emptive conflict prevention can work towards an ideal environment of ‘Positive Peace<\/a>\u2019 in which elevated economic and societal outcomes, paired with a diminished number of grievances, lowers levels of violence and the will to resort to it. Positive peace can be easily understood as a society free from the structural problems that would lead its citizens to resort to violent actions.
\nExpand Accountability Mechanisms to Defend International Human Rights Through building on initiatives such as the Responsibility to Protect<\/a>, UN member states must commit to upholding human rights standards, initiate unanimous international reactionary efforts when violations begin to occur, and cultivate a normative shift towards a culture that rejects human rights violations and resort to conflict as viable options.<\/p>\n

5\tDisarmament and Security<\/strong><\/a>
\nSupport the #ICANSAVE My City campaign<\/a> By happy chance, UN Day witnessed the ratification of the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons <\/a> and was welcomed by many. The most effective support for this is through the #ICANSAVE MY CITY campaign started by ICAN which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>. Using social media, all should campaign for their own city to join the programme
\nLethal Autonomous Weapons (killer robots) Young people should support initiatives like Pugwash<\/a>, currently organising an ethical science festival for young people and extending their mission beyond nuclear weapons to tomorrow\u2019s horror weapon, the killer robot.<\/a> University UN societies across the country could lead workshops for younger people in the surrounding areas. <\/p>\n

6\tDemocratic Participation<\/strong><\/a>
\nYouth involvement More than ever before, the UN seeks to link with today\u2019s youth. Research shows that the young and those in developing countries are more optimistic about the future than their elders. And yet, new surveys <\/a> report young people in the USA, UK and Australia are questioning the value of democracy. In response, we must ensure youth is represented even in the highest fora, starting with a UN Youth Council,<\/a> despite local and national cultural obstructionism.
\nListening to minorities The Black Lives Matter initiative challenges even the liberal minded to review perceptions of others.
\nCommunities link up worldwide The Open Government Partnership <\/a> linking governments and civil society in 78 countries encourages rich and poor to showcase successful case studies and identify \u2018bright lights\u2019, those communities which are exemplars of reform. More voices, more progress.<\/p>\n

7\tTolerance and Solidarity<\/strong><\/a>
\nTolerance Tolerance is an important peacemaker being not the indifference we sometime show another, rather by showing curiosity in the other, a desire to understand the other side of the argument. Be the first to try to understand the other person!
\nSolidarity When the UN was founded, all had lived through a pandemic, a global depression, genocide and world war. They knew all about solidarity. How do we rate? Some countries took months to show such solidarity in joining the COVAX p<\/a> rogramme even though \u2018vacci-nationalism\u2019 is not only unfair, but self-defeating. In preparing for the next pandemic, let\u2019s show the same solidarity as shown in 1945. <\/p>\n

8\tFree Flow of Information<<\/strong><\/a>
\nSharing best practice. Much media work in conflict management has focused on the media sector itself rather than examining its interplay with sub-systems and the overall system, itself in danger of overlooking necessary linkages between peacebuilding and state-building institutions and media institutions. To generate more effective media development in post-conflict environments<\/a>, especially where internet access is poor, media-military dialogues <\/a> can assist build trust and understanding between these two sectors and beyond, to the communities they serve.
\nMedia regulatory reform<\/a> This should play a role in political settlements in fragile states. The regulatory framework should accommodate proportionate political coverage of parties and mechanisms to include minority political and cultural interests. There must be clarity in setting guidelines for licenses to accommodate all media actors, including the small and independent. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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