Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) -Hague Appeal for Peace

^{Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) -Hague Appeal for Peace is a GLOBALWinner of the 2016 Global Sustainable Development Award and Accredited as a Global 500 Sustainable Development Agencies of the year 2016 in appreciation of its contribution towards social-economic development of the world and its contribution towards attainment of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Recognised for its commitment to attain Sustainable Peace and development through Promiting Peace and Human Rights in the World. Awarded and Accredited by Public Opinions International (Uganda-East Africa) AND Organisation for International Friends of Africa (OIFA)}

^{Public Opinions International is a Partner and Member of International Organisation for Educational Development (IOED) and International Police Commission which is is duly registered as an international Non-Profit, Non-Secretarial, Peacekeeping and Social Development Paramilitary Organization based in the State of California, United States of America with extension commands in member nations of the U.N.The International Police Commission has also been given the Consultative Status from the UN ECOSOC and it is also a Member of the United Nations Office of the Drugs and Crimes “UNODC.}

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^{The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of organizations and individuals dedicated to the abolition of war and making peace a human right. The Global Campaign for Peace Education was launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace conference in May 1999. After the conference, Hague Appeal for Peace took the responsibility of coordinating the Campaign.}

^{The Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) seeks to develop the capacities, in teachers and learners, to face challenges of unprecedented proportion: the continued development of weapons of mass destruction, armed conflicts between states and ethnic groups, the spread of racism, gender inequality, community violence, the huge and widening gap between the rich and the poor throughout the globalized economy, massive violations of human rights and the degradation of the environment.} 

^{How the campaign works:}

^{This initiative intends to foster the culture of peace in communities around the world. It has two goals.}

• ^{First, to build public awareness and political support for the introduction of peace education into all spheres of education, including non-formal education, in all schools throughout the world.}
• ^{Second, to promote the education of all teachers to teach for peace.}

^{Campaign Statement:}

^{A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems; have the skills to resolve conflict constructively; know and live by international standards of human rights, gender and racial equality; appreciate cultural diversity; and respect the integrity of the Earth. Such learning can not be achieved without intentional, sustained and systematic education for peace.}

^{The urgency and necessity of such education was acknowledged by the member states of UNESCO in 1974 and reaffirmed in the Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy in 1995. Yet, few educational institutions have undertaken such action. It is time to call upon ministries of education, educational institutions and policy makers to fulfill the commitments.}

^{A campaign to facilitate the introduction of peace and human rights education into all educational institutions was called for by the Hague Appeal for Peace Civil Society Conference in May 1999. An initiative of individual educators and education NGOs committed to peace, it is conducted through a global network of education associations, and regional, national and local task forces of citizens and educators who will lobby and inform ministries of education and teacher education institutions about the UNESCO Framework and the multiplicities of methods and materials that now exist to practice peace education in all learning environments. The goal of campaign is to assure that all educational systems throughout the world will educate for a culture of peace.}

^{NETWORK WORLDWIDE}

^{Global Campaign for Peace Education Endorsing Organizations}

^{International Organizations}

^{• International Association of Educating Cities
• International Association of Educators for Peace
• International Association of Educators for World Peace
• International Teacher
• International Youth Cooperation (The Hague)
• Living Values: An Educational Programme
• Mandate the Future/Worldview International Foundation (Colombo)
• Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Woman’s Association
• Peace Boat
• Pax Christi International
• Peace Child International
• Peace Education Commission
• International Peace Research Association
• UNICEF
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees
• Youth for a Better World International}

^{National and Local Organizations}

^{• Act 1 Presentations (USA)
• ActionAid Ghana
• All Pakistan Friendship and Peace Council (All Pakistan Youth Wing)
• Amnesty Nepal, Group-81
• Aotearoa-New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies
• ASEPaix, Association Suisse des Educateurs à la Paix (Switzerland)
• ASHTA NO KAI (India)
• Asociacion Respuesta (Argentina)
• Association of Young Azerbaijani Friends of Europe
• Assumption College (Philippines)
• Awareness One (Nigeria)
• Azerbaijan Women and Development Centre
• Big Brothers Big Sisters- Kerryville (USA)
• Buddha’s Light Universal Welfare Society (BLUWS) (Bangladesh)
• Canadian Alliance for Youth and Children’s Rights (CAYCR)
• Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace
• Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiations
• CEAL- Ciudardes Educadoras America Latina (Argentina)
• CEDEM-Centre d’Education et de Developpement pour les Enfants Mauriciens (Mauritius)
• Center For Globalization Studies, University BK (Serbia, FR Yugoslavia)
• Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies (CRPS) (Philippines)
• Center for Peace Education, Miriam College (Philippines)
• Center for Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation (Philippines)
• Centre for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation (United Kingdom)
• Centre for the Study of Peace (Ireland)
• CETAL- Network Culture of Peace (Sweden)
• CEYPA-Civic Education Youth Programme in Albania
• Child and Women Rights Society (Bangladesh)
• Children and Peace Philippines JMD Chapter
• City Montessori School (CMS, India)
• Concord Video and Film Council (UK)
• Concerned Youth for Peace (CONYOPA, Sierra Leone)
• Canossian Schools in the Philippines
• Cosananig Organisation (Nigeria)
• Creative Response to Conflict (USA)
• Culture for Peace Foundation (Spain)
• CRAGI, Conflict Resolution and Global Interdependence (USA)
• D@dalos Sarajevo – Association for Peace Education
• Développement Rural par la Protection de l’Environnement et Artisanat (Cameroon)
• Don Bosco Educational Association of the Philippines DBEAP
• Education for Peace Institute of the Balkans (Bosnia- Herzegovina)
• Education for Peace Project (Landegg International University, Switzerland)
• Educadores para a Paz (Brazil)
• Electoral Institute of South. Africa
• Elimu Yetu Coalition-Kenya
• ESR National Center Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (USA)
• Foundation for Peace and Development (Ghana)
• Fundacio per la Pau (Spain)
• Fundación Casa De La Juventud (Paraguay)
• Fundacion Gamma Idear (Colombia)
• Global Harmony Foundation (Switzerland)
• Helplife Foundation (Ghana)
• Grupa “Hajde Da…” (Belgrade Youth Centre for Tolerance and Peace Development)
• GUU Foundation Community Based Rehabilitation (Uganda)
• Halley Movement (Mauritius)
• Hessisches Landesinstitut für Pädagogik (Germany)
• Human Rights Committee (Serbia)
• Human Rights Education Academy of Nepal
• Human Rights Education Programme (Pakistan)
• Human Rights Eye & Education Center (HREEC, Cameroon)
• Iligan Center for Peace Education and Research (Philippines)
• Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament and Environmental Protection
• Institute for Planetary Synthesis (Spain)
• International Holistic Tourism Education Centre-IHTEC (Canada)
• International Mission for Peace (Sierra Leone)
• International Peace Research Association (Japan)
• International Youth Link Foundation (Ghana)
• International Youth Parliament/Oxfam Australia
• International Society For Human Values (Switzerland)
• Institute For Peace and Justice (USA)
• Institute of Education and Peace (Greece)
• Jane Addams’ Peace Association Inc (USA)
• Jigyansu Tribal Research Centre (India)
• Khmer Youth Association (Phnom Penh)
• Kids Meeting Kids (USA)
• Landegg International University (Switzerland)
• League In Friendship Endeavour (India)
• Learning and Development (Kenya)
• Lebanese American University Center for Peace and Justice Education
• Mandate the Future (Sri Lanka)
• Multiethnic Children and Youth Peace Centers (MCYPC) (Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia)
• National Federation of UNESCO Associations of Nepal
• Narvik Peace Foundation (Norway)
• NDH-Cameroon and African Network of Grassroot Democracy
• Nepal Institute for United Nations and UNESCO
• Nepal National UNESCO Academy
• Network Culture of Peace (CETAL) (Sweden)
• Nova, Centro para la Innovacón (Spain)
• Office of Peace in Horn of Africa OPIHA (U.A.E./Somalia)
• Pan-African Reconciliation Council (Nigeria)
• Parbatya Bouddha Mission (Bangladesh)
• Partnerships and Exchanges Programme for Development (Togo)
• Pax Christi Flanders (Belgium)
• Pax Educare- The Connecticut Center for Peace Education
• Paz y Cooperación (Spain)
• Peace 2000 Institute (Iceland)
• Peace Advocates Zamboanga (Philippines)
• Peace Education Academy of Nepal
• Peace Education Center (United States)
• Peace Education Institute (Finland)
• Peace Pledge Union (UK)
• Peace Project Africa (South Africa)
• Peace Research Centre (Cameroon)
• Peace Research Institute-Dundas (Canada)
• Peaceful Solution Society of Ghana
• People’s Parliament (Leskovac, Yugoslavia)
• Philippine Action Network on Small Arms PHILANSA
• Plowshare Center (USA)
• Proyecto 3er. Milenio (Argentina)
• Quaker Peace and Service (UK)
• Research Academica for Humanism and Jaiprithvi (RAFHAJ, Nepal)
• Rights Works (USA)
• Robert Muller School (USA)
• Sakha Ukuthula (South Africa)
• Samaritan Public School (India)
• Save the World (Nepal)
• Seminario Galego de Educacion para a Paz (Spain)
• Service Civil International-International Voluntary Service (SCI-IVS USA)
• Significant Music (Canada)
• Society For Democratic Reforms (Azerbaijan)
• Society for Human Development (Bangladesh)
• Support Center for Associations and Foundations (Belarus)
• Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
• Teaching for Peace Workshop (Denmark)
• Triratna Welfare Society (Bangaladesh)
• Vientos del Sur (Argentina)
• United Nations Association of New Zealand
• United Nations of Youth Foundation (The Netherlands)
• Unesco Etxea (Spain)
• Winpeace (Women’s Initiative for Peace, Turkey)
• World Commission for Peace & Human Rights Council (Pakistan)
• World Voices (UK)
• Youth Approach for Development & Cooperation (Bangladesh)
• Young Christian Students of Nigeria
• Youth Forum For Peace and Justice (YFPJ-Zambia)}

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