Global Peace
Education Day
Virtual Conference
EMPOWERING EDUCATORS FOR PEACE
20th September 2022 – 11 am New York Time
The Day’s Programme
Your Conference Chair and Host: a welcome from them
Conference Chair:
Gabriela Ramos: UNESCO Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences
Conference Host:
Michael Nouri: International screen actor; Goodwill ambassador for Seeds of Peace and the Multiple Sclerosis Society
Virtual Conference Format
The conference will be delivered via livestream in three language options (English, French and Spanish) in nine parts with keynote speakers, discussion panels and special features.
Each part will be followed by a break: for your reflection, relaxation and enjoyment of inspirational musical and video interludes.
Part 1: Call for a UN Day for Global Peace Education
Welcome from Founders
Alberto Guerrero:
President, Federación Española De Asociaciones,
Centros Y Clubes Para La UNESCO
Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury:
Distinguished Featured Speaker: Founder, Global Movement for The Culture of Peace; Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN
Why Campaign for a United Nations Peace Education Day?
The United Nations declared 2021 as the International Year for Peace and Trust. The United Nations has established more than 150 international days for different humanitarian themes. However, there is no day dedicated specifically to the theme of peace education.
Because peace education is central to the United Nations central mission, it certainly deserves a special day for public awareness – a day to promote practical efforts in peace education throughout the world, a day to empower educators for peace; a day to connect and celebrate with others in the peace education field.
Keynotes: Call to the UN
DISTINGUISHED FEATURED SPEAKER Anwarul Chowdhury
Founder; Global Movement for a Culture of Peace; Former Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Former President, UN Security Council
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Founder, Culture of Peace Foundation; Former Director General, UNESCO
Doudou Diene
Former Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance
Ouided Bouchamaoui
2015 Nobel Peace Laureate, President, Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA)
Prof Karim Errouaki, PhD:
Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Foreign Affairs and International Development, the State of the African Diaspora (SOAD), President Emeritus of the American University of Europe, Former Special Advisor to the UN SG late Prof. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ambassador of OLA-DSCC to the UNECA, African Union and CAFRAD-PanAfrican Intergovernmental Organization.
Reiner Braun
Executive Director, International Peace Bureau
Garry Jacobs
President and CEO, World Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ambassador Amat Al Alim Alsoswa
Former Minister of Human Rights, Yemen; former UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director of the Arab States Bureau
Francisco Rojas
8th Rector, University of Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica
Part 2: A Culture of Peace
What skills and knowledge do we need to build a culture of peace on a healthy planet? Some leading voices offer examples.
Keynotes
Federico Mayor Zaragoza: Founder, Culture of Peace Foundation; Former Director General, UNESCO
Prem Rawat: Author; Founder of The Prem Rawat Foundation and the Peace Education Program.
Steve Killilea AM: Founder & Executive Chairman, The Charitable Foundation; Institute for Economics and Peace
Roundtable
Ramu Damoradan: Former Chief of Academic Impact, United Nations
Alexander Laszlo, PhD: Human Evolution to Peace
Willow Baker: Program Director, Peace Education Program, TPRF
Special Features
Tony Jenkins, PhD: Mapping Peace Education
Part 3: Restoring Humanity
What skills must we learn to support more than a million people forced to flee their homes by conflict, climate change and persecution? Can peace education make us more human?
Keynote – Peace Skill: Right Relationship
Lisa Worth Huber PhD: President and Board Chair, National Peace Academy
Roundtable
Guila Clara Kessous, PhD: Moderator – UNESCO Artist for Peace
Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR: Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital
Enayet Khan: Artist; Photographer; Publisher Rohingya Together; Mentor, Rohingya refugee youth in Cox’s Bazar, world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Professor Nisha Sajnani: is the Director of the Program in Drama Therapy, Chair of the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium and International Research Alliance, and founder of the Arts and Health initiative at New York University.
Héloïse Onumba-Bessonnet: victimologist specialising in sexual violence in armed conflict.
LOBA Association, Project Manager for Re-Création by LOBA.
Part 4: Peace & Justice
Keynote
Bishop Horace Smith, M.D: Pastor, Chicago Apostolic Faith Church
Roundtable
Philip Shelton: Moderator – Director, Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity, Indianapolis, US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Rita Rubin Long: Educational consultant. Peace education facilitator. Kent State survivor.
David Weinberg: Executive Director, Global Peace Education Network, Inc.
Conversation
Chic Dambach: President Emeritus, Alliance for Peacebuilding
Part 5: Peace & Leadership
How do peacebuilding skills merge with global economics to promote a culture of peace? How will peace education stop the scourge of prejudice and violence?
Keynote
Stephane Monney Mouandjo, PhD: Directeur Général, Centre Africain de Formation et de Recherche Administrative pour le Développement (CAFRAD)
Roundtable
Marc Levitte: Moderator – Executive coach; Senior Facilitator, the Art of Hosting.
Bakari Sidiki Diaby: Founder, CADHA-Afrique
Rachidi Adam: President, Paix et Education; Assistant Administratif, FODEFCA
Philippe Rio: Mayor, Grigny, France; Vice-President, sustainable development, energy transition, water cycle and biodiversity, Grand Paris Sud; Vice-President of City and Suburbs; President, Association “Maires pour la Paix France”. On September 13, 2021, the World Mayor Foundation named him “Best Mayor in the World”.
Special Feature
Michael Nouri: Reading Letter from Matsui Kazumi, President of Mayors for Peace; Mayor, Hiroshima, Japan
Part 6: Peace & Planet
The UN Secretary General warns that “we’re sleepwalking toward climate catastrophe.” How can education reverse this trend? Young global activists showcase solutions
Keynotes
Kehkashan Basu: M.S.M. Founder, Green Hope Foundation
Francisca Cortes Solari: Founder, Filantropia Solari
Alexia Leclercq: Grassroots environmental justice organizer; Co-founder, Start: Empowerment
Part 7: Arts and Peace
The language of the arts flows through borders and transforms lives. How do arts and culture nurture peace skills? Our artists offer a creative exploration.
Keynote
Aixa Portero Y De La Torre PhD: Fine Arts Professor, University of Granada
RoundTable Panel
Alla Rogers: Moderator – Artist & Curator
Richard Dana: Artist
Melvin Hardy: Chairman, Millennium Arts Salon
Lucian Perkins: Independent photographer, and filmmaker
Sarah Tanguy: Curator
Part 8: Peace & War
Nuclear holocaust is closer than ever before. Armed conflicts are raging in 27 countries, with civilian populations mistreated by the military. How can peace education help end the threat of war?
Keynotes:
Gina Langton MAMBM FRSA: Founder of 80,000 Voices Ltd, one of the partners of ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017
Monica Willard: URI and International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation
Fawziah al-Ammar Phd: is a senior research fellow with the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies where she leads the center’s research on the psychological impacts of the ongoing conflict. She is an assistant professor of psychology at Amran University
Conversation:
Tezekiah Gabriel: Executive Director, Pathways to Peace
Tadhi Blackstone: Institute of Noetic Sciences
Our Purpose
In order to build a culture of peace on a healthy planet, the Global Peace Education Network connects peace educators and communities, advocates peace education policies and programs, and campaigns for an official United Nations Global Peace Education Day.
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