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In order to achieve a sustainable
world with a global culture whose values reflect a genuine
desire for peace and a rejection of violence, Peace Boat believes
that it is of paramount importance to make what we call education
for peace and sustainability an integral part of our collective
learning. In practice, this means making peace education for
a sustainable world more accessible to a wider audience, and
acknowledging its teaching as a legitimate discipline in the
formal educational system. Growing recognition of the value
of this is evident in the Hague Appeal for Peace Global
Campaign for Peace Education and the 1994 launch of UNESCO’s
Educating for a Sustainable Future. Further, the United Nations
declared the Year 2000 as the International Year for a
Culture of Peace and 2001-2010 is being designated 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 education for peace and sustainability through
the organization of educational voyages, based on lectures,
workshops and study-exchange programmes both onboard the ship
and in ports of call. Our Global University and International
Student (IS) programmes provide innovative approaches to peace
and sustainability-related studies through intensive learning
onboard and direct exposure to issues in various countries. |
| Global
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Global University
is an intensive peace and sustainability studies programme
for participants onboard, combining advanced study of selected
topics onboard the ship with exposure programmes in various
countries. Our goal during each voyage is to provide participants
with the insight and skills necessary to play an active role
in education, activism and peace-building activities at the
grass-roots level in Japan and internationally. The programme
is guided by special guest educators and specialists from
Japan and many countries around the world. Among the wide-ranging
topics of study are the conflicts in Israel/Palestine, the
former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland; globalization; media
literacy; HIV/AIDS with a focus on Africa; and climate change
as it affects South Pacific Island states.
Download the Global University brochure – Click here |
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Peace
Boat aims to increase access to peace education and conflict
resolution training to young people from regions in military
or political conflict through the International Student (IS)
programme. We invite a select number of young people from
opposing sides of conflicts to participate in an advanced
conflict analysis and peaceful conflict resolution training
programme, on a scholarship basis. As well as peace training,
the international students help other participants onboard
understand their lives and challenges, thus contributing greatly
to the general participants' overall understanding of
the nature of conflict.
The aim of the programme is for students to learn about peaceful
conflict resolution and develop the knowledge, skills, experience
and motivation that will equip them with the means to work
for peace when they return to their homes.
To date, students have come from Palestine, Israel, Serbia,
Croatia, Cyprus, India, Pakistan, Northern Ireland, Colombia,
the United States, Korea, China, and Taiwan. |
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educational opportunities to all participants onboard our
peace voyages is a key foundation of Peace Boat's activities.
Every day on the ship, there are numerous lectures and workshops
taking place on a wide variety of contemporary global issues
including globalization, conflict, human rights and the environment.
Introductory presentations about the countries we visit are
also given. This in turn, helps participants better understand
how local communities and individuals are affected by, and
find creative solutions to, problems that exist around the
world. In port, Peace Boat encourages participants to experience
first-hand the daily lives of local people and what they are
doing to improve their lives. To this foundation we add activism
and co-operation with our counterpart organizations, thus
creating the Peace Boat education-through-action experience. |
| Global
English/Espanol Training (GET) Programme |
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through its GET Programme, organizes onboard English and Spanish
language programmes that allow participants to communicate
more effectively with the people they meet in port. These
programmes focus on oral communication and combine onboard
classroom study and a range of language-based activities,
with special exchange programmes and home-stays in selected
ports of call. Peace Boat views the English and Spanish languages
as global property that can be used as tools for international
and intercultural exchange. We believe in introducing students
to the many varieties of both languages found throughout the
world, from the English spoken in Singapore or New Zealand
to the Spanish spoken in El Salvador or Argentina. |
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Education in Japan |
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As an organization founded with the objective
of exposing its participants to the realities of history,
Peace Boat continues to undertake a wide variety of activities
to advocate for peace education in Japan, and share our collective
experiences around the world with as many people as possible.
Educational activities include presentations from study tours
in Japan and abroad, discussing peace issues and individual
experiences with students from elementary schools to universities,
and organizing forums and panel discussions, all of which
are open to the public. |
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