(Une version française suit en dessous) The Biennale of Luanda, as described in this month’s CPNN bulletin, is a process unique in the world. Nowhere else on earth can you imagine a process that involves all of the countries of a continent in collaboration with the United Nations working together with a coordinating state to … Read more
Over the course of history, Africa and Latin America have been more the victims rather than the perpetrators of the culture of war. Does that mean that they can lead us to the culture of peace? This month’s CPNN bulletin is optimistic with regard to Africa where the African Union increasingly promotes a culture of … Read more
On September 7 the New York Times carried several very long articles about former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who had just died, saying that he was a “tyrant” and that he “presided over the decline of one of Africa’s most prosperous lands.” At one point they describe his seizure of white-owned farms. “By 1998, alhough … Read more
Africa is featured again this month on the CPNN bulletin, as it has been numerous times before, because of its leadership for a culture of peace. The recent articles illustrate what I wrote recently in the article Africa’s Contribution to the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace for the African journal, The Thinker. Culture of Peace Consciousness “Africa … Read more
As described in this month’s CPNN bulletin, Colombia is preparing for peace as the peace talks advance between the Government and FARC. Local and regional peace initiatives, as well as a national move for peace education, are taking place in this context. It seems that Colombia will achieve peace accords that allow the election of … Read more
The following is excerpted from the talk I gave at the recent symposium on Tourism and Peace (See this month’s CPNN bulletin). Tourism is an enormous enterprise with enormous resources, and it needs a culture of peace. Tourism is the first industry to suffer when there is violence. And it has a great potential to … Read more
Imagine ! … …if we could apply in Europe and North America initiatives such as those described from Africa such as the contributions of Nelson Mandela, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, the Gacaca in Rwanda, etc…. Imagine ! … …that networks of mass media, radio and television, devoted to the culture of … Read more
When we drafted the Declaration and Programme of Action for a Culture of Peace at UNESCO in 1998, adopted by the UN General Assembly a year later as Resolution a/53/243, we envisaged that progress towards a culture of peace could be achieved through the following: – Partnerships between and among the various actors [including civil … Read more
Is it by chance that the leadership for the culture of peace is coming from the continents of Latin America and Africa, continents of the Global South? The detailed evidence for this may be found in many CPNN articles, some of which are summarized in the CPNN bulletins for March 1 and April 1 this year, as well as … Read more
As the other peace leaders in this month’s CPNN bulletin testify, Nelson Mandela provided us a model of leadership for a culture of peace. He left us “a vision of a new and better life and the tools with which to win and build it.” 20 years ago in Psychology for Peace Activists, I wrote: “At the present … Read more