UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Kimoons message to the fiftyseventh Pugwash Conference, in Bari, Italy, on 2

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons message to the
fifty-seventh Pugwash Conference, in Bari,
Italy, on 21 October

• DISARMAMENT MUST REMAIN AT TOP OF AGENDA

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Three Lessons learnedUnited Nations study on
disarmament andnon-proliferation
educationA/57/124 of 30 August
2002disarmament.un.org/education
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Objectives of DNP education

• Overall educational goal
• GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT UNDER EFFECTIVE
  INTERNATIONAL CONTROL

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Manageable pedagogical goal

• Process of disarmament
• Steps to achieve it
• Positive effects that disarmament has on
  security, international relations and
  socio-economic development

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A SIGNIFICANT SUBSET OF DISARMAMENT
EDUCATIONCONTRIBUTES TO THE ATTAINMENT OF
DISARMAMENT GOALS

• NON-PROLIFERATION EDUCATION

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Lesson 1 TEACHING DISARMAMENT IN CONTEXT

• If it is to retain its relevance to the
• security requirements of peoples and
• States, disarmament and
• non-proliferation education and training
• must not be viewed in a vacuum but
• rather integrated into a broad
• perspective.
• From the UN Study

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• PEACE EDUCATION AGENDA
• in framework of Culture of Peace
• Conflict resolution communication, cross-cultural
  understanding, tolerance of diversity
• Non-violence
• Economic justice
• Gender equity
• Environmental preservation
• Demilitarization
• Development
• Human rights and international humanitarian law

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• What
• a school-age child in a refugee camp needs
• to know about disarmament is not the same
• as what is required for a border guard, let
• alone for a political official or a high school
• teacher.
• From the Summary to the UN Study

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• DISARMAMENT AFFAIRS
• HAGUE APPEAL for PEACE
• 4 COUNTRY / 4 CONTINENT
• PROJECT

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• PEACE AND
• DISARMAMENT
• EDUCATION
• CHANGING
• MINDSETS TO
• REDUCE VIOLENCE
• AND SUSTAIN THE
• REMOVAL OF
• SMALL ARMS

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• Gramsh,
• Albania
• With guns removed and the economy still
  struggling,
• small arms education was linked to the
  installation of a computer laboratory in the high
  school

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Kampong Chhnang, CambodiaArms education had to
deal with lingering attitudes of social violence
and massive violations of human rights
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• NGuigmi, Niger
• Former combatants
• did on-the-job
• training in radio
• broadcasting and
• young students
• created a
• Flame of Peace
• with knives collected at school (left)

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• San Juan de Lurigancho,
• Lima, Peru
• Arms and violence prevention go hand in hand with
  appreciation for indigenous cultural heritage in
  language and art

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• On the job training
• more than 700 UN Disarmament Fellows
• since Programme began 28 years ago

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• UN Regional Centre for Disarmament and Peace in
  Asia and the Pacific
• sponsored with Indonesia
• a disarmament training programme
• for the Indonesia foreign service and other
  government offices

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Lesson 2Teachable moments

• Since 2002 when report was adopted,
• Catastrophic terrorism in Spain and UK
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq
• Threat of war with Iran

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• WMD COMMISSION REPORT
• Weapons of Terror Freeing the World of Nuclear,
  Biological and Chemical Arms in 2006 presses for
  an acceptance of the principle that all nuclear
  weapons should be outlawed, as are chemical and
  biological weapons, within a reasonable time

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• January 4 Editorial in the Wall Street Journal by
  Kissinger, Perry, Shultz and Nunn and others
  called for US leadership in moving the world to
  reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as
  a vital contribution to non-proliferation

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• And Gorbachevs response on 31 January in WSJ
  stating that nuclear weapons are no longer a
  means of achieving security in fact, with every
  passing year they make our security more
  precarious.

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• In January, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set
  the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight citing the
  threat of a second nuclear age and the expected
  consequences of climate change

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• The renewal of Trident in the United Kingdom came
  with an intense debate
• Former Foreign Secretary Mary Beckett stated
  publicly in June that what was needed was both
  vision a scenario for a world free of nuclear
  weapons. And action progressive steps to reduce
  warhead numbers and to limit the role of nuclear
  weapons in security policy.

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Lesson 3

• THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIPS
• At all levels
• Governments, United Nations,
• Civil Society and Civic Organizations

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UN-LiREC - Training

• Citizen and public security
• Law enforcement officials, parliamentarians,
• civil society

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• Partnering with
• Governments
• Swefor
• CICAD
• UNDP
• Small Arms Survey
• International Alert
• Viva Rio
• Fundación Arias
• Save the Children Suecia

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• OPANAL training for decision-makers
• Culture of Peace Workshops for teachers and
  community leaders - working with UNESCO and NGO
  education partners
• University for Peace rich resource centre for,
  among others, conflict resolution, gender
  mainstreaming

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UN DPI UNCyberschoolbus

• Website on
• Nuclear disarmament
• and
• Small arms Education
• Launched in October 2007

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                Welcome to the new Disarmament
and Non-Proliferation Education web site.
Disarmament and non-proliferation (DNP) are two
goals set by the Member States of the United
Nations to help maintain international peace and
security and "save succeeding generations from
the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime
has brought untold sorrow to mankind." (Charter
of the United Nations, 1945) ...
http//cyberschoolbus.un.org/dnp/
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• UNIDIRs
• Educational
• Resource for practitioners of disarmament

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Universities

• Internships CNS/MIIS
• June 2007 Central American Conference with
  Oscar Arias Quinnipiac and Albert Schweitzer
  Institute
• Internal staff training sessions visiting
  professors
• Advisory Group on DNP Education

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Smithsonian Institution November 2007