SCHOOLS OF PEACE FOUNDATION Amada Benavides de Perez

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SCHOOLS OF PEACE FOUNDATIONAmada Benavides de
Perez

• Teachers College
• Columbia University
• New York
• November 7 2006

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SCHOOLS OF PEACE FOUNDATION

• The Schools of Peace Foundation is a NGO founded
  in 2001
• The activities of the Schools of Peace started in
  1997 like a school project
• In 1999 we joined with other 5 schools and we
  started a collective construction of Peace
  Education Programs
• In Dec. 1999 we won the Ibero american Santillana
  Award in Peace Education.

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SCHOOLS OF PEACE NETS

• Actually the Schools of Peace Foundation operate
  with 3 Nets
• THE PEACE EDUCATORS NETWORK, linking with the
  International Association of Peace Educators
• THE SCHOOLS OF PEACE YOUNG NETWORK. Conformed for
  an interdisciplinary group of young leaders
• THE SCHOOLS OF PEACE NETWORK. Most than 50 school
  which participate in our programs

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OUR WORK IN COLOMBIAA MODEL FOR WORKING IN A
COUNTRY INVOLVED IN AN ARMED CONFLICT SITUATION

• Recognizing the damage of the war
• Recognizing all levels of violence direct
  violence, structural violence and cultural
  violence
• Working with Publics administrators in order to
  incorporate Culture of Peace Programs as a public
  Policy

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OUR WORK IN COLOMBIAA MODEL FOR WORKING IN A
COUNTRY INVOLVED IN AN ARMED CONFLICT SITUATION

• Working in reconstruction and reconciliation
  programs in middle of the armed conflict
• Inviting all the civil society to work in a
  cultural change trough the Culture of Peace
• Appealing the NGOs to work cooperatively and in
  a non competition way

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CURRENT PROGRAMS
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SCHOOLS OF PEACE PROGRAMS 2006

• Cathedra Guillermo Gaviria Correa for the
  promotion and consolidation of the Culture of
  Peace and Nonviolence
• Schools Observatory of Citizens Competences in
  the framework of the Culture of Peace and Human
  Rights.
• Municipal System of Schools Coexistence (Soacha)
• Bogota Human Rights Cathedra
• 38 Schools of 4 Neighborhoods
• 6 schools in Ciudad Bolivar

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CÁTEDRA GUILLERMO GAVIRIA CORREA PARA LA
PROMOCIÓN Y CONSOLIDACIÓN DE LA CULTURA DE PAZ Y
LA NOVIOLENCIA
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Cathedra Guillermo Gaviria CorreaObjectives

• To diffuse experiences on peace and Non-Violence
  pedagogy accomplished in the local, national and
  international level.
• To strength the network of national organisations
  that work helping the promotion and consolidation
  of Peace and Non-Violence Culture and to link
  them to other International System.
• To share conceptual elements and pedagogic tools
  for learning and application of a Peace Culture
  accomplished nationally and internationally.
• To fortify institutional links between
  governmental and non-governmental participating
  organisations.

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Cathedra Guillermo Gaviria Correa

• Addressee to
• Public administrators
• Teachers
• NGO
• Community base leaders
• Civil society
• Duration Since 2004
• Location
• 2004 Bogota
• 2005 Medellin with video conference to other 5
  cities Bogota, Barranquilla, Cali, Cucuta and
  Manizales
• 2006 Popayan, Cauca. With video Conference to
  Bogota, Manizales and Medellin

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Cathedra Guillermo Gaviria Correa

• Partnerships
• 2004
• Escuela Superior de Administración Pública
• Superior College of Public Administration
• Federación Colombiana de Educadores
• Colombian Federation of Educators
• Fundación Escuelas de Paz
• Schools of Peace Foundation
• 2005
• Gobernacion de Antioquia
• Antioquias Governor adminitration
• Escuela Superior de Administración Pública
• Federación Colombiana de Educadores
• Fundación Escuelas de Paz
• CORPADES Corporacion para la paz y la democracia

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Cathedra Guillermo Gaviria Correa

• 2006
• Escuela Superior de Administración Pública
• Universidad del Cauca
• Fundación Escuelas de Paz
• Grupo Universitario Rocinante

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Schools Observatory of Citizens Competences
COLEGIO COMPARTIR SOACHA COLOMBIA

• Objective
• Developing the basic standards of Citizen
  Competences in the secondary school of the
  Colegio Compartir Municipio deSoacha
• This project is oriented towards the improvement
  of the scholar coexistence in the educative
  institution through the design, application,
  systematization and evaluation of a Peace
  education proposal, with a wide participation of
  the educative community.

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Schools Observatory of Citizens Competences

• The project has been formulae in four (4) stages
  and a transversal action of systematization and
  evaluation.
• Stage 1 To elaborate the state of the art about
  the municipal previous experiences in peace
  education, culture of peace, conflict
  transformation or human rights in the school
  context in the County of Soacha.
• Stage 2 Diagnosis. To elaborate a participative
  diagnosis about the school coexistence in the
  Colegio Compartir
• Stage 3 Leaders group formation and
  qualification processes. Workshops using
  different methodology approaches
• The Transcend approach of J. Galtung from
  TRANSCEND.
• The Mossavi model
• The pedagogical experiential workshops
• Stage 4 Observatory installation and self
  operation and establishing of the Groups of
  interest

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Schools Observatory of Citizens Competences

• Addressee to
• The ultimate beneficiaries of this project are
  teenagers and youngsters in a vulnerability
  condition and the school's educative community
  including teachers, parents and the Soacha
  County.
• Total students 1340
• Direct Impact 250 persons (Students, tachers,
  mothers and fathers)
• Duration August 2004 to November 2005
• Location Colegio Compartir
• Municipio deSoacha

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Partnerships
UNICEF COLOMBIA Financial and technical
support COOPERACION COLOMBIA Administrative
coordination FUNDACION ESCUELAS DE PAZ
Pedagogical coordination
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This privileged space of socialization can
transform in a powerful tool from which they can
stimulate the development of the reflexive
capacity and critical analysis, thinking freedom
and look for respect attitudes, tolerance,
solidarity and fraternity, with responsible
participation possibilities in the schools life
as in their families and in the community
relationships.
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The Municipal System of School Convivence (life
together approach)

• The social and economic situation of the
  municipality of Soacha is complex, in spite of
  the efforts of many public and deprived
  organizations, many children young people, they
  see harmed its rights

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The Municipal System of School Convivence

• This situation impelled to UNICEF - Colombia to
  direct its attention to the situation of this
  municipality and to stimulate directed actions to
  improve the quality of life of adolescents and
  young people, to generate a culture of respect by
  its rights and to support the development of
  public policies that materialize them.

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The Municipal System of School Convivence -
Objectives -

• To help the Municipal Public administrator to
  design the Municipal System of Schools Convivence
  defined in the Educational Decade Plan
• To establish a network of Schools Observatory of
  Citizens Competences (6 Schools, one for each
  neighborhood)
• To invite all the municipal public administration
  to join the program Soacha municipio amigo de
  la Niñez y la adolescencia
• Soacha municipality friend of the
• Childhood and the adolescence

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The Municipal System of School Convivence

• Addressee to
• Schools Observatory of Citizens Competences
• Students, Teachers, Schools administrative and
  directors,
• fathers, mothers and community bases leaders in
  each
• neighborhood
• Total participants 6000
• Direct Impact 250 persons (Students, teachers,
• mothers and fathers)

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The Municipal System of School Convivence

• Addressee to
• Municipal System of School Convivence

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The Municipal System of School Convivence

• Duration August 2006 to November 2007
• Location
• 6 Schools in 6 neighborhood
• Municipio deSoacha

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Partnerships
UNICEF COLOMBIA Financial and technical
support COOPERACION COLOMBIA Administrative
coordination FUNDACION ESCUELAS DE PAZ
Pedagogical coordination CINDE.
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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra

• History Acuerdo 125 de 2004
• Actions since the Bogotas Secretary of Education
  
• Support of the ONG to the consolidation of the
  policy publish

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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra

• Duration
• February 2006 to December 2006
• Addressee to
• All the Schools Community in 38 Bogota Public
  Schools

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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra

• Location

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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra Partnerships
SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION DE BOGOTA PROGRAMA
Bogota sin Indiferencia FUNDACION ESCUELAS DE
PAZ
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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra Ciudad Bolivar
Objectives

• To empower teachers as Human Rights leaders
• To link Teachers networks and NGOs
• To work in the Bogotas Teachers Network
  consolidation

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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra Ciudad Bolivar

• Duration
• August 2006 to December 2006
• Addressee to
• All the Schools Community in 6 Bogota Public
  Schools in
• Ciudad Bolivar neigborhood
• Bogota Human Rights Cathedra Ciudad Bolivar

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Bogota Human Rights Cathedra

• Location

Arborizadora Alta La Estancia Naciones
Unidas Minuto de Buenos Aires San
Francisco Paraíso Manuela Beltran
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Bogota Human Rights CathedraCiudad Bolivar
PARTNERSHIPS
SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION DE BOGOTA PROGRAMA
Bogota sin Indiferencia FUNDACION ESCUELAS DE
PAZ TEACHERS NETWORK IN CIUDAD BOLIVAR
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CULTURA DE PAZ COMO UN DERECHO

• En Colombia Titulo II de la Constitución
  Política Nacional
• Articulo 22
• La paz es un derecho y un deber de obligatorio
  cumplimiento