The 3rd International Salon for Peace Initiatives will take place in Paris on 30 May – 1 June 2008, in the
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. It will help a wide public to get familiar with the culture of peace and non-violence. Around 200 French and international exhibitors will present their peace and non-violence initiatives and several activities will be proposed, included 40 interactive workshops, films and exhibitions. The third international Salon for Peace Initiatives will be held under the auspices of the
UN, the
UNESCO, the
UNRIC, the French Commission for UNESCO, the French
Foreign Office, the Regional council of
Ile-de-France and the
City of Paris, in partnership with the
Secours catholique- Réseau mondial
Caritas,
Non-violence XXI,
Partage,
Le Monde,
La Vie and
RFI, and also with the support of
Pax Christi France and the
Secours islamique. Several organizations will be partners of this Salon in order to enrich the culture of peace and non-violence and to highlight its numerous dimensions:
justice,
non-violent resolution of conflicts,
mediation, human rights defense, environmental respect and development,
disarmament,
gender equality,
international solidarity etc.
International Conference – Actor for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence – 2008 This Salon will host the International Conference "Actor for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence", organized by the French Coalition for the Decade in collaboration with the
International Coalition for the Decade. This Conference will create a space for thinking and meeting for all those involved in this field, in France and all over the world. Six round tables and sixty workshops will allow for the encounter and the debate among several scientific disciplines (sociology, psychology and pedagogy) and several citizen practices (associative, political) from the whole world. They will take into account the death anniversary of two major figures of non-violence: M. K.
Gandhi (1948) and
Martin Luther King Jr. (1968). Speakers of this International Conference will be: •
Federico Mayor, president of the
Fundación Cultura de Paz (
Madrid) and member of the Honorary Board of the
International Coalition for the Decade •
Marco Allenbach, High Educational School of Vaud (
Lausanne, Switzerland) •
Gabriella Battaini, Director general for Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport,
Council of Europe (
Strasbourg, France) • María José Brioso Valcárcel, Centro de Investigación y Documentación Educativa (CIDE), Ministry for the Education and the Sciences, Spain •
Richard Deats, former editor of
FOR's
Fellowship, author of biographies of M. K.
Gandhi and
Martin Luther King Jr., trainer in non-violence in Burma in 2007 (United States) •
Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, president of Droit au Logement (DAL) •
Chuck Fager, director of
Fayetteville's Quaker House (United States) •
Jacques Généreux, economist, professor at the Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po), chronicler for
France-Culture and
Alternatives économiques, author of the
Manifesto for a human economy (Paris, France) •
Hildegard Goss-Mayr,
Niwano Peace Prize Laureate and Honorary Board of
IFOR, Vienna (Austria) •
Nancy Irving, general Secretary of the
Friends World Consultative Committee (FWCC), (London,
Great-Britain) •
Jean-Baptiste Libouban, member of the
Ark of Lanza del Vasto and of
Voluntary Ripers, France •
Elisabeth Maheu-Vaillant, IUFM of Rouen, trainer in conflict regulation, IFMAN (Rouen, France) •
Manuel Manonelles, director of the Barcelone Board of Fundación Cultura de Paz • May Moufarrej,
Mouvement Social Libanais,
Liban •
Daniele Novara, director of the Centro Psicopedagogico per la Pace e la gestione dei conflitti (
Piacenza), (Italy) •
Alain Richard, franciscan and vice-president of the
International Coalition for the Decade •
André Robertfroid, president of the
Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and former Deputy General Director of the
UNICEF, Amsterdam/Belgium • Alessandro Rossi, European coordinator,
Nonviolent Peaceforce (
Brussels, Belgium) •
Mohamed Sahnoun, Algerian diplomat, president of
Initiatives of Change International, former special representative of the United Nations and the African Union for the Great Lakes region (Caux, Switzerland) •
Ramesh Sharma, secretary of
Ekta Parishad, organizer of the Janadesh March and member of the National Committee of the Land Reform(India) •
Qian Tang, UNESCO Deputy Assistant Director-General for Education •
Jean Vanier,
Arche (France / Canada) •
Claudette Werleigh, Secretary-general of
Pax Christi International, former Prime Minister of Haiti and former director of the Conflict resolution programme at the
Life and Peace Institute (
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