THE EMERGING CANADIAN CULTURE OF PEACE PROGRAM

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• THE EMERGING CANADIAN CULTURE OF PEACE PROGRAM
• And
• THE CANADIAN PEACE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

• LESSONS LEARNED

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How many of you

• have had a personal experience of violence?
• are concerned with current trends in violence?
• doubt that governments (alone) will fix this?
• are concerned about your childrens future?
• believe you can help bring peace to the world?
• believe that your respective organizations can
  help bring peace to the world?

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WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

• The most important life skills are not being
  taught in schools or by parents (eg. Social
  intelligence, conflict transformation,
  relationship building, communications,
  peacebuilding, etc.)
• As a specialist in organizations, information and
  leadership working in peace education for over a
  decade, it is clear that, in the next twenty
  years, were going to get the society were
  creating now. But, we have it in our power to
  build a better world a world with peace.
• As Leaders in our Communities and Families with a
  Peace Vision, if we want to increase our success,
  
• Take the time to look at what we are doing now,
  and
• What will we do in the near future, to make it a
  saner and more socially intelligent place to live
  for all of us?
• What we must do is bring our leadership,
  management social acumen to bear on Peace.

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The Context

• Historically, Canada has been in the middle of
  the pack when it comes to Peace Education.
• The bottom line there is a lot of opportunity
  for improvement there is a lot of opportunity
  for us and our respective institutions to make a
  difference.

• Definition
• Peace Education, in simple terms, is learning
  the attitudes, skills and behaviour to live
  together successfully.

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• A major reason for the lack of peace education
  resources there has been a lack of motivation
  and action.
• To those who proclaim an interest in peace, the
  challenge is, Show me the money. It is not
  there in any significant way.

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Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace

• I had difficulty getting the information that I
  needed to do something to contribute to peace.
  So I created my own Canadian Centres for
  Teaching Peace, a virtual centre at -
• Since incorporation in 1998, we have had over
  3,000,000 visitors to the site,
• We are currently averaging over 70,000 visitors
  per month, from around the world,
• We are the most active peace web site in Canada
  and one of the best in the world (in plain
  language, suitable for all readers),

• http//www.peace.ca

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Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace

• We host National and several Provincial Peace
  Education Conferences annually.
• We host several email listservers, to provide
  tools for communication, networking, dialogue and
  information dissemination.
• We have created a Canadian Peace Education
  Foundation, to raise resources.
• We have opened the first Community Centre for
  Teaching Peace and Peace Café
• The web site works for peace 24/7.

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• In the process, we have developed some
  significant expertise in peacebuilding, peace
  education and leadership.
• We are pleased to offer our service to others.
• We try to model servant leadership we recommend
  the book Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf

• http//www.peace.ca/servantleadership.htm

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PEACE EDUCATION CONFERENCES

• Our peace education conferences are not like
  other conferences.  They fill a vital gap in
  building a Culture of Peace, by focusing on root
  causes, systemic change, and a long term
  perspective with a bias for action now. 
• We do not employ a lot of keynote speakers
  because we promote the wisdom in all our varied
  participants in other words, everyone is a
  keynote speaker. We have a bias for Open Space
  Conferencing. 
• We believe we offer a lot of value to individuals
  and organizations, while living within a
  shoe-string budget. 
• While we wish larger numbers would benefit from
  all the effort that goes into the conference (our
  target is 500 participants this year), we
  appreciate it even if we only get a smaller
  number of people who share in a life changing
  experience, and seeds are planted that truly grow
  to make a difference in building peace.
• This is the only venue where people get together
  to work on a Canadian Peace Education Strategy. 
  I believe you know the need for a Canadian Peace
  Education Strategy, to get peace education on the
  Canadian Agenda, and to get peace education
  integrated into all schools throughout Canada. 
  We need your knowledge to help lead peace
  education throughout Canada in a most significant
  way.

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Canadian Peace Education Strategy

• At our First Annual Peace Education Conference in
  Canada, at McMaster University in Hamilton, we
  developed a Canadian Peace Education Strategy
• 1. to get peace education onto the Canadian
  agenda in the near term, and
• 2. to get peace education integrated into all
  schools and curricula within the decade.

• Available online at http//www.peace.ca/conference
  2002summary.htm
• This is consistent with the Hague Appeal for
  Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education, and
  United Nations/UNESCO research. Ultimately, all
  children need to learn peaceful means to manage
  conflict and prevent violence.

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Peace Education Target Tasks

• Peace Education material on the Internet for
  self-study (fastest)
• Distance Learning Programs on Internet
• Hidden Curricula
• Formal Curricula (this takes a long time)
• University Chairs in Peace funded
• Provincial Conferencing
• Community Centres

• Carl Rogers, "The only learning which
  significantly influences behavior is
  self-directed, self-appropriated learning.
• Give teachers the tools and they will get it in
  the classroom.
• In all Provinces.
• In all Communities.

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Canadian Culture of Peace Program

• At our Third Annual Peace Education Conference in
  Canada this past November (2004), we gave birth
  to a new Canadian Culture of Peace Program.
• Its mission is to advance a Culture of Peace and
  Non-violence, at home and abroad.
• It is a National Culture of Peace Program linked
  to the United Nations International Culture of
  Peace and Non-violence Program for the Children
  of the World (we are currently at the mid-point
  of the Decade for a Culture of Peace).
• We enjoy the benefit of UNESCOs valuable
  research.

• www.cultureofpeace.ca
• http//www3.unesco.org/iycp

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Canadian Culture of Peace Program (CCOPP)

• The CCOPP is a Civil Society initiative, open
  to everyone and all institutions in Canada.
• It is an institution gathering people and
  organizations who have accepted the common
  purpose of building a Culture of Peace, and a
  common discipline to guide the pursuit of that
  purpose, to the end that each involved person
  reaches higher fulfillment as a person, through
  serving and being served by the common venture,
  than would be achieved alone or in a less
  committed relationship.
• You can get more information at

• www.cultureofpeace.ca

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VALUES, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS COMPARISON

• CULTURE OF WAR AND VIOLENCE
• Belief in power that is based on force
• Having an enemy
• Authoritarian governance
• Secrecy and propaganda
• Armament
• Exploitation of people
• Exploitation of nature
• Male domination

• CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
• Education for a culture of peace
• Tolerance, solidarity and international
  understanding
• Democratic participation
• Free flow of information
• Disarmament
• Human rights
• Sustainable development
• Equality of women and men

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Our Pledge (Manifesto 2000)

• Because the year 2000 must be a new beginning, an
  opportunity to transform - all together - the
  culture of war and violence into a culture of
  peace and non-violence,
• Because this transformation demands the
  participation of each and every one of us, and
  must offer young people and future generations
  the values that can inspire them to shape a world
  based on justice, solidarity, liberty, dignity,
  harmony and prosperity for all,
• Because the culture of peace can underpin
  sustainable development, environmental protection
  and the well-being of each person,
• Because I am aware of my share of responsibility
  for the future of humanity, in particular to the
  children of today and tomorrow,

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Our Pledge (Manifesto 2000)

• I pledge in my daily life, in my family, my work,
  my community, my country and my region, to
• Respect the life and dignity of each human being
  without discrimination or prejudice
• Practice active non-violence, rejecting violence
  in all its forms physical, sexual,
  psychological, economical and social, in
  particular towards the most deprived and
  vulnerable such as children and adolescents
• Share my time and material resources in a spirit
  of generosity to put an end to exclusion,
  injustice and political and economic oppression

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Our Pledge (Manifesto 2000)

• Defend freedom of expression and cultural
  diversity, giving preference always to dialogue
  and listening without engaging in fanaticism,
  defamation and the rejection of others
• Promote consumer behavior that is responsible and
  development practices that respect all forms of
  life and preserve the balance of nature on the
  planet
• Contribute to the development of my community,
  with the full participation of women and respect
  for democratic principles, in order to create
  together new forms of solidarity.
• http//www3.unesco.org/manifesto2000

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How to build a Culture of Peace

• Principles for CCOPP Conversations (CCOPP
  Protocol)
• Safety,
• Consequences,
• Acceptance,
• Mutual purpose,
• Patience,
• Difference,
• Empowerment,
• Action,
• Responsibility www.peace.ca/CCOPPprotocol.htm

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How to build a Culture of Peace

• CCOPP Stakeholder Web a network of stakeholders
  that scrutinizes and attempts to influence
  Canadas behavior with respect to peace and
  violence.
• CCOPPs role is one of catalyst, facilitator and
  gap filler.

• Refer to http//www.peace.ca/CCOPPorganization2004
  .htm

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CCOPP Organizational Structure/Stakeholder
Groups

• Core Working Group
• Action Planning
• Education
• Marketing resource raising
• Government
• Media
• Business
• Religion
• Etc. See http//www.peace.ca/
  CCOPPmanaging.htm

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Transformation

• The United Nations Culture of Peace Program tells
  us that we need to transform all institutions
  from a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace.
  
• Stakeholder webs are a powerful force for
  transformation.
• They actively investigate, evaluate, and seek to
  change the behaviors of institutions (such as
  corporations, governments, educational
  institutions, religious organizations, NGOs,
  etc.) to achieve better alignment with the values
  and interests of their participants in this
  case, a Culture of Peace.

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Personal Transformation

• Be the change you wish to see in others
  Gandhi
• If we want to change the world, we have to begin
  by changing ourselves Dalai Lama
• Your duty and mine is to bring about change by
  personal transformation Deepak Chopra
• In a sense, our old selves brought up in a
  Culture of Violence must die in order that we may
  be reborn to serve in a Culture of Peace, and
  find peace within

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BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE WHAT WE LEARN FROM
FUTURISTS

• A better future is a future with peace
• "We need to adopt the mindset of most
  professional futurists and become systemic
  optimists - those who believe that life can get
  better, but only if we fundamentally alter the
  way we think and do things.  We need to embrace
  whole-system change." 

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THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION

• Massive forces are transforming the 21st century,
  driven by technology and innovation.
• Our task is to understand and redirect these
  forces toward a Culture of Peace and Non-violence
  (much like a judo expert redirects the force of
  his/her opponent).

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E-PEACE CULTURE CHANGE

• Our new media (computers, internet, real time
  television, cell phones, etc)
• drive new perceptions
• drive new worldviews,
• drive new understandings,
• drive new psychology,
• drive new relationships,
• drive new institutions,
• drive new culture.

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FUTURES STUDIES HIGHLIGHTS

• The new leader will be the collaborative catalyst
• Leadership will be shared
• Society will change
• We cant change the past or the present, but we
  can change the future
• The people who need the most peace education are
  Peace Educators and Peacebuilders
• Infiltrating works better than revolutionizing

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HIGHLIGHTS - The Prescription for Change

• work smarter not harder
• expose current paradigms (their strengths,
  weaknesses, opportunities, and threats)
• cross pollinate new ideas and collaborations
• develop new tools and language
• craft a new narrative
• infiltrate all institutions, everywhere
• find opportunities for change
• support communities of fans
• recapture the spirit of the citizens and amateurs
  who are good citizens rooted in amoré love and
  passion.
• Lever our power of information and social capital
  for the common good be entrepreneurial
  developing sustainable action
• Champion peace and all its elements

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HIGHLIGHTS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE

• Understand the future of power and force
• Look at nature stress creates evolution
• Dissatisfaction with the status quo is healthy
  and necessary it is how we move to a higher
  level
• Civil society the real and future superpower
  vs. no government wants to recognize people power
  because it threatens them
• The larger the network, the greater the value
• Transformational model starting with the
  transformation of individual Peacebuilders and
  the Peace Institution for the 21st Century

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HIGHLIGHTS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE (cont.)

• Organic learning environments
• Internet/distance learning the most effective
  education is self-learning
• The greatest law enforcement challenge of the
  information age positive ID of
  criminals/terrorists, before they act, while
  preserving civil liberties
• Find solutions to the bad guys problems

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HIGHLIGHTS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE (cont.)

• Importance of addressing systemic problems
• It is relatively easy to deal with technological
  change the challenge is the social and
  behavioural side
• The importance of Social Intelligence
• The importance of Spiritual Intelligence
• There is a lack of public discourse about these
  vital things

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HIGHLIGHTS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE (cont.)

• Total solutions and service (holistic)
• Transformation management vs. institutions that
  do not know how to grapple with cultural change
  (starting with the Peace Institution and Peace
  Practitioners)
• A new Social Contract ethics, accountability,
  citizen involvement, collaboration, flexibility,
  patience with its citizens and civil society
  organizations, educational institutions,
  business, media, religions, etc.

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How to build a Culture of Peace

• Filling in the Peace and Education Gaps.
• What we found in doing an environmental scan of
  the peace industry in Canada and the world was an
  information void, a leadership void, a resource
  void, and an educational void preventing the
  building of a Culture of Peace and Non-violence.

• Refer to http//www.peace.ca/CCOPPpeaceeducation.h
  tm
• Our purpose is
• 1. to fill those key voids, and
• 2. to build Social Intelligence (a simple
  definition of peace education is teaching the
  attitudes and skills for living together)
• 3. to empower (knowledge is power lack of
  knowledge is lack of power)

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Course examples

• understanding macropeace, or the big peace
  picture,
• how to teach peace (peace pedagogy),
• peace leadership and servant leadership,
• peace psychology,
• relationship building,
• critical and creative thinking,
• self-sufficiency, independence, cooperation,
  competition, community and citizenship,

• www.peace.ca/macropeace.htm (see following
  diagram)
• http//www.peace.ca/servantleadership.htm
• http//www.peace.ca/peacepsychology.htm

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Course examples (cont.)

• conflict transformation,
• open space technology (how to make every
  conference and classroom open to maximum
  participation),
• having difficult and crucial conversations,
• peace education at the family level and good
  parenting, etc.
• How many of these courses are currently taught in
  your schools?

• www.transcend.org/tpu/courses.shtml
• http//www.peace.ca/ost.htm
• http//www.peace.ca/CCOPPprotocol.htm

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A CONCEPTUAL MAP

• What is a Conceptual Map? This is a question
  I'm going to answer in more detail with specific
  peace examples to add to our big picture
  perspective.
• A conceptual map, broadly defined, presents the
  relationships among a set of connected concepts
  and ideas. It is a tangible way to display how
  your mind  "sees" a particular topic. By
  constructing a concept map, you reflect on what
  you know and what you don't know.

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BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN OTHERS Gandhi

• Note 1 Peace Practitioners are thwarted when
  they do not act on their values (eg. By being
  perceived to act violently, damaging
  relationships, etc.).
• The burden is on Peace Practitioners to dispel
  confusion and communicate clearly.
• We do this through our behaviour. We are more
  successful when we walk the talk, be peace
  Peace starts with me.
• Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
  http//www.peace.ca/beingpeace.htm
• Spiritual Intelligence and empowering

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THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY

• Note 2 We need a new leadership ideal
• Corrupt, unjust, exploitative, lying, violent,
  cowardly leaders are to be shunned
• Replaced by honest, just, truthful, transparent,
  non-violent, brave, competent, committed, servant
  leaders truly public servants with a social
  purpose.
• No more hypocrisy walk the talk
• Our responsibility for shared leadership.

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THE AHA MOMENT

• EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT
• LEADERSHIP EMPOWERMENT
• EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
• This is why it is so important to study
  leadership and peace psychology.

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LEADERSHIP AND PEACE RECOMMENDED READING

• The Leadership Bibliography
• Servant Leadership
• Self Leadership
• The Leader Within
• Leadership Peace Powerpoint

• www.peace.ca/peaceleader.htm
• www.peace.ca/servantleadership.htm
• www.peace.ca/selfleadership.htm
• www.peace.ca/leaderwithin.htm
• www.peace.ca/LEADERSHIP20IN20TRANSFORMATION20OF
  20THE20PEACE20PROFESSION.ppt

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SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

• These two words succinctly and clearly capture
  the essence of the purpose of peace education and
  the Culture of Peace Program
• Social Intelligence by its nature works to change
  behaviours, forge values and incite institutional
  transformations from the current culture of war
  and violence to a Culture of Peace and
  Non-violence.
• Social Intelligence is readily understandable,
  acceptable and supportable by most Canadians.
• http//www.cultureofpeace.ca/CCOPPmarketingstrateg
  y.htm
• The Must Read Book www.peace.ca/socialintelligenc
  e.htm

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IMAGE VALUES OF A HIGHLY DESIRABLE FUTURE

• CULTURE OF WAR AND VIOLENCE
• Belief in power that is based on force
• Having an enemy
• Authoritarian governance
• Secrecy and propaganda
• Armament
• Exploitation of people
• Exploitation of nature
• Male domination

• CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
• Education for a culture of peace
• Tolerance, solidarity and international
  understanding
• Democratic participation
• Free flow of information
• Disarmament
• Human rights
• Sustainable development
• Equality of women and men

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IMAGE VALUES OF A HIGHLY DESIRABLE FUTURE (cont.)

• CULTURE OF WAR AND VIOLENCE
• Dysfunctional
• Unjust
• Illogical, irresponsible
• Cognitive dissonance
• No integration
• Unethical
• Inequity
• Uncompassionate/mean
• Disrespect

• CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
• Functional
• Just
• Logical, responsible
• Inner congruence
• Integration of self with others
• Ethical
• Equity
• Compassionate
• Respect

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IMAGE VALUES OF A HIGHLY DESIRABLE FUTURE (cont.)

• CULTURE OF WAR AND VIOLENCE
• Harm
• Selfish, individualistic
• Greedy
• Untrustworthy/paranoid
• Culture of Fear
• Culture of silence
• W.M.D. and WAR
• Etc.
• Etc.

• CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
• Good
• Empathy, cooperative service to others
• Generous
• Trust
• Safety and security
• Culture of dialogue
• No W.M.D. and NO WAR
• Etc.
• Etc.

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IMAGE PICTURE OF A HIGHLY DESIRABLE FUTURE
(cont.)

• CULTURE OF WAR AND VIOLENCE

• CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE

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SOURCE OF GROWTH (Social Development)

• "Leaders only change because they either see the
  light or feel the heat." Martin Luther King Jr.
• Emphasize the positive, asset building not the
  negative, criticism, divisive (needs based)
• Balance personal growth, growth in others,
  organizational growth, worldly growth (Put your
  mask on first before helping others.)

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PARETOS LAW

• The 8020 Rule 80 of the output (results or
  ends) is achieved by 20 of the input (means).
  Key to success of the high achievers.
• As it applies to the Image of a Highly Desirable
  Future State, peace practitioners can
  significantly improve their success by increasing
  their leadership, educator, social and
  psychological skills, attitudes and behaviours

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Peace Movements have tried 3 ways to end war

• Activism
• Humanitarianism
• Personal
• Transformation

• Fails because protestors are not heard,
  outnumbered and tend to violence
• Fails because outnumbered, outfinanced by war
  makers after the fact
• Fails because nobody has really tried it

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Conclusions

• The Bad News it is not that we do not know what
  to do, it is that we do not do it.
• "The world is dangerous not because of those who
  do harm, but because of those who look at it
  without doing anything." - Albert Einstein
• Most people simply do not know what to do
  hence, we can be the Guide.

• The Good News in response, we have developed a
  draft Canadian Culture of Peace Program Marketing
  Strategy
• www.cultureofpeace.ca/CCOPPmarketingstrategy.htm
• We are also working with the federal Department
  of Peace Initiative to build a new relationship
  with Governments
• www.departmentofpeace.ca

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Conclusions

• The Good News
• Since 9/11, the Iraq War and the Bush Doctrine,
  there has been more Peace Education than ever
  before in the history of mankind.
• We have a map and are working to transform
  individual Peacebuilders and the Peace
  Institution/ Collective.

• The Good News
• Your leadership is needed to help build a better
  world, a world with peace, and you can make a big
  difference.
• You can be more efficient and effective by
  increasing your leadership, educator, social and
  psychological skills, attitudes and behaviours

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SUMMARY 

• The Canadian Peace Initiative (CPI) is a
  process to simply provide the venues, support and
  guidance to Open Space to Open Minds and Hearts
  to Peace. 
• The  CPI process is open, transparent, patient
  and committed, drawing people from all walks of
  life, freeing them from their stasis and
  mobilizing them. 
• All members of the Culture of Peace movement have
  to be leaders in their own right, drawing on
  their own potential and inner strengths,
  galvanizing, inspiring and energizing the peace
  movement.  Everyone is a peace leader and peace
  educator. 
• Every day we must take ownership of ourselves and
  our relationships we can do anything we set our
  minds and hearts to we do no harm, expect and
  demand no harm be done to us or others no one is
  better than another  we are critical thinkers,
  finding our own truths education is our best
  investment
• Information and social contacts are our most
  important resources.  
• Building a healthy culture is about building
  healthy relationships we can do that.  
• As we take ownership of peace others will follow
  because it will be uplifting and empowering, it
  will be infectious, and lead to sudden, massive,
  cultural change.

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• I hope that our evolving Canadian Model will
  provide you with food for thought.
• It is being used to feed into the development of
  an International Peace Education Strategy
• Look for Peace Cafés coming to your locale

• www.cultureofpeace.ca/GPPAC2005.htm
• www.peacecafe.ca

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YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING MAJOR
UPCOMING CANADIAN EVENTS

• April 4-6, 2008 - Annual Summit on Departments of
  Peace (Toronto) http//www.departmentofpeace.ca
• October 3-5, 2008 - Second Canadian Culture of
  Peace Symposium (Hamilton)
  www.cultureofpeace.ca
• November 20, 2008 Youth Peace Day (McMaster U.)
  www.peace.ca
• November 17-19, 2008 Annual Leadership and Peace
  Workshop (McMaster U.) www.peace.ca
• November 21-24, 2008 - Annual Conference For
  Peace Education In Canada (McMaster) www.peace.ca

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Recommended Reading Peace in General

• THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PEACE, by Doug Roche
  http//www.peace.ca/humanrighttopeace.htm
• Peace, Conflict, and Violence Peace Psychology
  for the 21st Century, APA http//www.peace.ca/peac
  epsychology.htm
• Social Intelligence The New Science of Success,
  by K.Albrecht http//www.peace.ca/socialintelligen
  ce.htm
• Servant Leadership http//www.peace.ca/servantlead
  ership.htm
• The Practice of Peace http//www.peace.ca/openspac
  e.htm
• Difficult Conversations How to Discuss What
  Matters Most http//www.peace.ca/difficultconversa
  tions.pdf
• Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When
  Stakes Are High http//www.peace.ca/crucialconvers
  ations.pdf
• Crucial Confrontations Tools for Resolving
  Broken Promises http//www.peace.ca/crucial_confro
  ntations.htm
• Peace Is The Way Bringing War and Violence To An
  End, by Deepak Chopra

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Recommended Reading Personal Transformation

• Being Peace, by Thich Nhat Hanh.
  http//www.peace.ca/beingpeace.htm
• The Book of Secrets Unlocking the Hidden
  Dimensions of Your Life, by Deepak Chopra
  http//www.peace.ca/bookofsecrets.htm
• The Breakthrough Experience A Revolutionary New
  Approach to Personal Transformation, by John
  Demartini http//www.peace.ca/breakthroughexperien
  ce.htm
• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Deepak
  Chopra  http//www.peace.ca/spirituallaws.htm
• I Need Your Love Is That True? How to Stop
  Seeking and Start Finding , by Byron Katie 
  http//www.peace.ca/isthattrue.htm
• The Greatest Miracle in the World, by Og Mandino
  http//www.peace.ca/greatestmiracle.htm
• The Emotional Freedom Technique, by Gary Craig
  http//www.mercola.com/forms/eftcourse.htm
• Psych-K For Accelerated Personal Growth, by
  Robert Williams  http//psych-k.com/home.php

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• In the process of all this, I have been
  undergoing a significant personal transformation
  a journey that I am pleased to share with you. 
  
• In the process of seeking peace, we are likely to
  give ourselves anxiety, pain and even depression
  your mind can become a war zone.  Stress is the
  signal that its time to question your own
  thinking.    Seeking peace is how you lose the
  awareness of peace.  But you can only lose the
  awareness of it, not the state.  Thats not an
  option, because peace is what we all are.  Look
  around you and you will find peace in many ways,
  if you look hard enough celebrate them.  The
  spiritual secret that applies here is this what
  you seek, you already are.

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• The U.N. Culture of Peace Program calls for the
  transformation of all institutions from a culture
  of violence to a Culture of Peace and
  Non-violence.  The first institution that must
  go through this transformation is ourselves.  As
  Gandhi instructed us, be the change you seek in
  the world.  In a sense, our old selves (our
  selves raised in a culture of violence and
  reflecting it) must die in order that our new
  selves - our selves living a Culture of Peace and
  Non-violence may be born.  We must truly be
  Renaissance Men and Women.  I suspect many of
  you are also labouring with your rebirth.  Each
  of us has to find the actual experience of peace
  and calmness on our own. The secret for doing
  that is to free the mind. When it is free, the
  mind settles down. It gives up its restlessness
  and becomes a channel for peace.  As the UNESCO
  motto proclaims, Since wars begin in the minds
  of men, it is in the minds of men that the
  defences of peace must be constructed.  This
  applies to us as well as them.
• I invite you to join me in this personal
  transformation.  A major goal over the next
  period will be to strengthen our section of the
  www.peace.ca web site on Building Peace at the
  Individual Level.

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• I fully believe that the people who need the most
  peace education are peace educators, peace
  leaders and peacebuilders.  One of our major
  goals at Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace is
  to help with the necessary personal
  transformations to accelerate the personal
  growth and wisdom of all peace educators, leaders
  and builders, by supplying helpful information. 
  Since everyone is a potential peace educator,
  leader and builder this means engaging
  everyone.  It truly takes an astronomical vision
  to make a global difference.
• I am very grateful that I have found my purpose
  in life peace education.  We all have our own
  unique talents to bring to peace education I am
  pleased to bring my unique leadership, management
  and business talents to bear on this most
  worthwhile cause.  By teaching peace and wisdom,
  our students can transform their lives and make a
  difference teaching peace and wisdom.
• Today, start to act as if your influence extends
  everywhere you should know that it does.

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THE WISDOM I AM LIVING

• Higher Purpose - work for the welfare of the
  whole world, by significantly reducing the human
  cost of direct and indirect violence through
  peace education, raising social intelligence,
  true wisdom and self actualization throughout the
  world.
• Communion communicate and develop relationships
  with everyone else in the world, to notify the
  worlds farthest reaches of the purpose and
  intention (above).
• Awareness listen to understand, everything that
  impinges on the purpose (above).  Meditate on it,
  adapt, remain flexible, respond accordingly.
• Acceptance There are no enemies.  Understand my
  values and others values, and communicate with
  myself and others accordingly.  I am a genius and
  they are also.  Recognize every one as equally
  important and interdependent.
• Creativity think thoughts never thought before,
  dance in a way never seen before.  Continue to
  solve the peace problem every day, in creative
  new ways.
• Being obey the universal cycle of rest and
  activity.  Live a balanced life.  Sleep on it. 
  Meditate on it.  Develop routines and cycles. 
  Live the Nature of Peace, and Peace of Nature.
• Efficiency work smarter, not harder. 
  Prioritize.  Seek value, including profit in what
  is done.  Benefits must significantly exceed all
  costs.  Stop doing things that are not
  significant contributors to the purpose.
• Bonding know that we are all fundamentally the
  same.  There are no outcasts.  Extend the hand of
  friendship to all.
• Giving give and receive automatically, without
  expectation, without hoarding.  Give students of
  peace your time.
• Immortality pass on your knowledge, experience
  and talents to others and become immortal by
  leaving a legacy of peace education that will
  keep on giving when you pass on to another
  plain.  Be remembered.
• Exercise write your own "Wisdoms" page.

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Questions?

• Thank you
• Bob Stewart
• stewartr_at_peace.ca
• www.peace.ca
• A copy of this presentation is available at
  http//www.peace.ca/EVOLVING_CANADIAN_CULTURE_OF_P
  EACE_PROGRAM_2005.ppt