UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s 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 learned

United Nations study on disarmament and

non-proliferation education

A/57/124 of 30 August 2002

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Objectives of DNP education

Overall educational goal

GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT UNDER EFFECTIVE

INTERNATIONAL CONTROL

Manageable pedagogical goal

Process of disarmament

Steps to achieve it

Positive effects that disarmament has on security, international relations and socio-economic development

A “SIGNIFICANT SUBSET” OF DISARMAMENT EDUCATION

CONTRIBUTES TO THE ATTAINMENT OF

DISARMAMENT GOALS

NON-PROLIFERATION EDUCATION

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

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

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

DISARMAMENT AFFAIRS

& HAGUE APPEAL for PEACE

4 COUNTRY / 4 CONTINENT

PROJECT

 

 

 

                            

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

Kampong Chhnang, CambodiaArms education had to deal with

lingering attitudes of social violence and massive violations of human rights

N’Guigmi, 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)

San Juan de Lurigancho,

Lima, Peru

Arms and violence prevention go hand in hand with appreciation for indigenous cultural heritage in language and art

On the job training –

more than 700 UN Disarmament Fellows

since Programme began 28 years ago

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

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

• 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

• 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

• And Gorbachev’s 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.”

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

• 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.”

Lesson 3

THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIPS

At all levels

Governments, United Nations,

Civil Society and Civic Organizations

UN-LiREC - Training

Citizen and public security

Law enforcement officials,

parliamentarians,

civil society

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

• 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

UN DPI – UNCyberschoolbus

Website on Nuclear disarmamentand Small arms Education

Launched in October 2007

               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) ...

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UNIDIR’s

Educational

Resource for practitioners of disarmament

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

Smithsonian Institution

November 2007