“Construyendo una cultura de paz a través de la juventud y la educación: Una conferencia sobre proyectos y posibilidades”

Fecha: Sábado,1 de Febrero de 2014Locación: Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo“, Piso Quinto, La Paz, Bolivia

Tiempo: 09.00 a 15.00

A Pioneering Programme of Peace-building Education

for the New Generation

Partnering with youth towards a culture of peace• 19 young leaders from

Bolivia (18 - 30) • 3 different universities in La

Paz• Interdisciplinary approach

(students from 6 different career disciplines)

Expositores y commentaristas

Dr. Marcelo Villafani, Rector Regional de Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB) "San Pablo“DR. Sergio Delgadillo Urquidi, Vicepresidente comisión de conciliación y arbitraje

Expositores – Dr. Waldo Albarracin, Rector de Universidad Mayor de San Adres Lic. Yolanda Herrera de Romero, Presidenta de la Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos de Bolivia: Derechos humanosDra. María Lily Maric Palenque, Docente de la Carrera de Psicología dependiente de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, UMSA

ComentaristasLic. Alejandra Martinez, Decana de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, UCBLic. Denisse Soliz Pinto, Equipo de género, generacional y justicia social del Ministerio de EducaciónLic. Amparo Cavajal, Presidenta de la Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos de La Paz, Bolivia

Ceremonia de Clausura - Phill Gittins, Rotary Peace Fellow y Universidad de Kent (Inglaterra)

Immersion I – 2 days (Beginning, Sept. 14-15. 2013)What is Peace; What is a Peace Project?

Immersion II – 1 dayDefinition/Start of Peace Project; Interaction/Coaching from Mentors (Oct.26 2013)

Immersion III – 2 daysReporting of Peace Project Results; Reflections on Experience/Learning; Plan for Communications; Awarding of “RISE of Peace Envoy” status (Dec.14-15. 2013)

WeeklyReflection, Check-Ins, Guest Lectures, Focused sessions

About RISE:Programme Outline - Fall 2013

Weekly sessions: - Planning peace projects-

Galtung framework Negotiation - Robin Hood Pillars of peace

(United Nations) Trafficking

(Ministry of Education) The purpose and

functions of education (focus group)

Presenting peace projects (plenary/Q and A)

Personal and professional development session – focus on ‘you’

Conflict simulation - student exercise

Social representations of peace and violence (UMSA/UNIR)

Conflictividad y gestion pulblica local (UNIR)

Theory, reflection, and action

(Peace) research, education, action

Introduction to Peace Studies

– Interplay between peace

research, peace

education and peace action

Key scholars:Galtung’s

theoreticians (direct, cultural,

structural violence):

negative and positive peace

Approaches to peace:

peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding

- Inner and outer peace- Global means

for measuring peace

- Case studies- Human rights

Conflict analysis and

levels of analysis

(grassroots, mid, and elite

level)

Difference between a

humanitarian and ‘peace’

project-

Examples/ideas

Presentation skills, give/receive feedback

Raise, explore, & debate issues of importance

Team-building, group work (transferable skills)

Develop communication & social skills

From conflict analysis to conflict resolution/transformation: Plan, organise, implement, and evaluate a ‘peace’ project together. Develop leadership competencies

Moving from peace learning to peace practiseImpact: 120+ youth in La Paz, Bolivia trained in issues related to peace, conflict and violence

Group 1: Empowerment (Estas-o-no-estas)

Group 2: Human rights(Operación DD.HH en

Jovenes)

Group 3: Interculturalidad

Empoderamiento“Estas-o-no-estas”

Operación Derechos Humanos

Particiapant reflections: In their own wordsPersonal and/or professional development:

More than learning knowledge, it helped me with my personal growth (Emma)

This experience changed the way I think about everything. if you want peace you have to start with yourself first (Mavi)Here I have grown a lot. I learnt a lot about conflict, and what peace is and can be. Also how can we make this happen. How to make some differences inside us and how to share. So I am learning now and I will go on to share this learning with other young people (Jeffrey)

I believe you gave us some power that we are not used to. And power that we have never had because as we are always told what to do. This experience taught me there are other ways of doing things and we should be given opportunities to decide for ourselves and how to do things. We could have had really different results in our life’s and contexts if we would have given opportunities before to demonstrate how responsible we can be with this power (Belen)

I always believed I had a good attitude with regards to sharing and working with people, but now I realize I didn’t. I really had hard time listening and relating to others. So in that way I realized that it’s very important to reflect on how I am going to face things now (Alejandra)

I feel I have stopped being a viewer and really acted. I am trying to not just be a viewer, or a talker, I want to do (Mavi)

developed my attitudes with regards to working in groups because I have problems. All people participating also know a lot about what they are doing. My attitudes towards group work really developed throughout this project (Alejandro)

this programme changed my behavior and beliefs. Because I see the world and the problems of peace. I see that it is important that people have attitude to resolve problems in the community (Caroline)

About peace and peace projectsI thought as a single person I could do nothing with regards to working with peace in Bolivia (a country that has a lot of conflict). But when we did the actual peace project I felt that all this effort we put in - even if it is a tiny bit of something - it works. Because the ones attending to my project, I faith in them changing things: in their lives, in their inner circles, in the families. This way we are making a change for everything in the country (Alejandro)

I think the best approach to peace is the local peace (Emma)

This project helped me to reflect on what actions I can take, and how am I going to take them. That made me think about other opinions, other people, and that I am going to investigate more about this and putting myself into this action. (Alejandra)

Peace needs to be co-constructed (Alejandra)

It changed the focus of the concepts I had of peace. I thought that it was abstract. I learned that it’s a process, and active process with peaks and lows (Scarlett)

I think talking about empathy concepts have developed me in terms of trying to be in the other shoes of the other person (Fabian)

I don’t know if we can really teach peace at global context because I think that peace is more creative. I think currently we understand peace as social relationships, but we are not understanding peace as an internal development. I think that global peace may exist yet only theoretically. Obviously we are all looking for peace yet on our own terms. I think the universal idea of peace is something we use to look for common goal (Daniel)

Reflections on education and this (Peace Education) learning experience (continued)…Instead of being told what to think we were provided with opportunities and space to develop how to think (Jeffrey)

It helped me to think about things in relation to the Bolivian reality because I am going to be a political scientist. This will be very useful (Daniel)

Once I felt that what I was feeling supported and was listened to with critical feedback I started to enrich my own concepts. So, the learning together was really important (Mavi)

The best part was that we are all different people from different careers. And I think we can all learn from each other in an environment that was about trust. It wasn’t just talking about abstract theories but we talked about things that we are thinking, we are feeling, and what we really believed in. What was invaluable was that Phill gave us the space to do that. Phill gave us a variety of instruments so we could develop in different ways the best for what we are doing (Belen)

In this programme you ‘taught us how to think not what to think’ – Most of teachers here, and that I know, try to teach us what they think we should know and what they think is right. Sometimes at my university students are asked questions and if they don’t know the teacher says I cant believe you don’t know. This closes people down and then they don’t want to talk (Michelle)

The theory was great because I could link authors knowledge to practice by analyzing our context and planning the peace project (Ricardo). Now knowing the different theories of peace, conflict and violence I am now able to recognize the different forms of violence we face here in Bolivia each day (Ricardo and Emma)

The session I liked the most was the "inner Monday" (hehe) when we connected with ourselves...I think, spirituality is very important (Michelle)

Reflections on education and this (Peace Education) learning experience (continued)…It was important to learn how to differentiate between direct, structural and cultural violence. These differences helped us in our project, considering that we want to promote peace, and to do that we have to be able to differentiate what kind of violence we face in every place we go, in order to promote peace (Mariela)

Teachers here generally say ‘You have to learn this, and this way’. And I don’t care if you want to do it more dynamic or in another way. So teachers and education don’t show that they care about how I have to learn because I have to adapt to the teacher. In this case, how does the teacher know that I am learning. I am just doing what they want and learning what they want. Or wiring what they want to see in a paper (Belen)

I learnt a lot from the presentations of other students (Daniel)

Bolivia is a very conflictive society with conflict every day. People don’t know to face or deal with conflict. So knowing the concepts, knowing the theories helped me to think more critical and objective about things. The framework for predicting, describing, analyzing, (Galtung) was useful as it made us think about conflict but importantly how to do something about it (Alejandro)

the individual learning journal helps me to reflect on my own learning about life not just about theory (Emma)

I were fascinated by the triangle about structural violence and all about this. I didn't hear before about the power and the presence of the structural violence. This kind of violence I think is more like a "passive" violence... it's not necessary to hit someone to reproduce a violent culture. (Gerardo)

From the beginning of my life, I have always been in front of a chalkboard, listening to the teacher saying sacred words and memorizing (most of the time). Unfortunately this continued in college.. With respect to classes of RISE: brainstorming, specific concepts and thoughts helped us form our own conclusions, including my own way of thinking and being. Also, listening to my colleagues is to enrich my knowledge.(Mavi)

Los esperamos a esta nueva experiencia

Fecha: Sábado,1 de Febrero de 2014Locación: Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo“, Piso Quinto, La Paz, Bolivia

Tiempo: 09.00 a 15.00