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Canadian Peace Institute (CPI)
A new peace education organization has been
created, called the Canadian Peace Institute (CPI). This organization
was proposed at the annual convention of the
Canadian Peace Research and Education Association (CPREA).
Whereas CPREA has traditionally been more focused
on promoting peace research by means of an annual convention
and by means of the journal Peace Research,
the new CPI will be more directly focused on peace education.
The opening paragraph of the CPI mission statement reads:
The Canadian Peace Institute offers an
interdisciplinary graduate program challenging students both
in and outside the classroom in peace theory and development;
students arbitrate alternatives to the aberration of violence
and war. Education is virtually the only source of a foundation
for peace, to overcome ignorance and intolerance. We have never
discovered how to share the planet, or to save it from ourselves,
and we must; it is our responsibility to all future generations,
and ourselves. Historically, it is students who successfully
depose despots peacefully, and affect dramatic, long-term change
in establishing equitable and fair governance.
Listserv discussion groups have now been set
up for both groups:
a) CPREAdiscussion@yahoogroups.com can
be subscribed to at
htpp://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPREAdiscussion
Or you can simply send an empty
message from your own computer to this address:
CPREAdiscussion-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
b) CPIdiscussion@yahoogroups.com can be
subscribed to at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPIdiscussion
Or you can simply send an empty message from
your own computer to this address: CPIdiscussion-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Both of these are open and unmoderated discussion
groups. Anyone can sign onto them. Welcome.
Floyd W. Rudmin
University of Tromso
Email: FRudmin@Psyk.UiT.No
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