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order to achieve a global culture whose values reflect a genuine desire
for peace and a rejection of violence, peace education must be more
widely promoted and access to it increased. This was recognized both
by the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education,
and by the UN declaration of the year 2000 as the International Year
for a Culture of Peace and the years 2001 to 2010 as the International
Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of
the World. Since its foundation in 1983, Peace Boat has been active
in the field of peace education through the organisation of educational
voyages, on land study and exchange programmes and, more recently,
through the Global University, an innovative approach to peace education
and the world's first floating peace university. |
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| The Global University is an intensive peace studies
programme which combines study onboard the ship during one of our
voyages with exposure programmes in selected regions that the ship
visits. As well providing participants with the insight and skills
necessary to play an active role in peace-building at a grass-roots
level, the Global University aims to increase access to peace education
to young people from conflict regions around the world through the
international student scholarship scheme. |
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| During our stays in port, a wide range of study tours,
exposure programmes and cultural exchanges foster international friendship
and understanding while raising participants' awareness of local and
global issues. These activities are organised in conjunction with
local NGOs, and involve exchange with the local community at a grass-roots
level, thus providing a mutually rewarding educational experience
in which everyone who takes part becomes both an educator and a learner. |
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| Throughout the year Peace Boat invites guest speakers
from around the world who are active in the fields of human rights,
peace education, the environment and sustainable development to give
lectures and workshops in Tokyo. These lectures cover a range of issues
of both regional and global concern, and are open to members of the
public as well as Peace Boat participants. |
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PEACE BOAT is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. |
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