I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Welcome to The Peace Foundation
The Peace Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation actively involved in creating a more peaceful society. The Foundation promotes peaceful relationships among people of all ages, at all levels, through education, research and action.
When:
Friday 17th September (Week 9, Term 3, 2010) from 8.45a.m till 3.00p.m
Where:
Boardroom, Level 1, Problem Gambling Foundation Building, 128
Khyber Pass Road, Newmarket, Auckland. Car parking available at Wilson Public Parking, Arawa
Street (off Khyber Pass Road). Cost: $6.00 for 12 hours. Both credit card
and cash payment facility available. Follow the signs to the venue from Wilson Parking.
Cost:
$150 per person which includes; 5 hour training, essential resources,
handouts, morning tea and lunch.
Who should attend:
New staff members of schools currently implementing the programme
Cool Schools Co-ordinators who have not had previous training
Teachers and co-ordinators who need a refresher course
School management interested in future implementation
Brief Course Outline:
Welcome and Introduction
Why implement Cool Schools?
Conflict – Destructive vs Constructive
Conflict - Response Options – The Animals
Mediators in Action
The Role of the Mediator
The Mediation Process
Classroom Skills Which Support Peer Mediation
Effective Implementation/ Handouts/Resources
Limited spaces. First in first served.
Pleases RSVP asap to Caroline. Email: coolschools@peacefoundation.org.nz
Pre-payment is required by cheque made out to:
The Peace Foundation, P.O. Box 4110, Auckland 1140
Phone: (09) 373 2379
Fax: (09) 379 2668
Skills to bring out the best in you and your children
The Peace Foundation is pleased to invite you to a communication skills course primarily aimed at parents and caregivers.
The course is FREE and focuses on simple, proven ways for adults to increase their effectiveness with children, teenagers and their partners.
Participants will learn effective communication skills including how to:
Communicate with assertiveness.
Skilfully respond to unwanted behaviours.
Deal resourcefully with conflict and successfully solve it.
‘A really clear, effective and well delivered approach to understanding how to communicate effectively.’
‘Very worthwhile! A course every adult would gain something from.’
‘Well‐paced, good variety, playful and profound, encouraging and empowering!’
If you would like to find out where and when the next course is or to host a course at your organisation please email
coolschools@peacefoundation.org.nz
or phone (09) 373 2379
We are delighted to announce that The Peace Foundation has moved to a new location at Level 2, Problem Gambling Foundation Building, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland. You can still contact us at the same phone +64-9-373-2379, fax +64-9-379-2668, and PO Box 4110, Auckland 1140.
It will be our pleasure to serve you at our new premises. We hope to see you soon.
The Award enabled Alyn to meet with Costa Rican Presidents Oscar Arias (2009) and Laura Chinchilla (2010) as well as key parliamentarians, lawyers, scholars and NGOs to learn about key Costa Rican initiatives including the abolition of armies, Costa Rica Consensus (disarmament for development), the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (which Costa Rica submitted to the United Nations and is now being promoted by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) and the Arms Trade Treaty. Alyn also travelled to Washington and New York for meetings with high-level UN officials (including the UN Secretary-General), US officials in the State Department and US legislators.
His trip, and the subsequent NZ tour he organised for Costa Rican parliamentarian Edine von Herold, helped build support in New Zealand for Ban Ki-moon’s disarmament plan and the nuclear weapons convention – resulting in a unanimous parliamentary resolution in support just prior to the 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
Alyn is also active in peace education, and used his trip to engage with peace educators and youth peace activist overseas – leading to the establishment in New Zealand of the very successful Ban All Nukes Generation (BANG) Aotearoa and links to Peaceful Schools International.
Alyn’s peace education and disarmament work gained him the 2009 Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Peace Prize”) – the only New Zealander other than David Lange to win it.
Alyn and Cindy Sheehan speaking at the Peace Rally in Oslo after the Nobel prize ceremony for President Obama
Commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and marking the 25th Anniversary of David Lange's address to the Oxford Union
A public debate brought to you by the Peace Foundation, AUSA International Affairs Office and the United Nations Youth Association of NZ.
Tuesday 3 August
7:00pm
University of Auckland Business School, Lecture Theatre 260 098
Moot: "This house believes the abolition of nuclear weapons is a pipe-dream"
Negative:
Jacinda Ardern (Member of Parliament, Labour Party)
Max Harris (president of the UoA Deating Society)
Lyndon Burford (postgraduate student, completing a PhD on disarmament issues)
Affirmative:
Treasa Dunworth (public international law lecturer, LLB(hons), LLM (Harvard))
Curwen Rolinson (undergraduate student, Law and Asian Studies)
Akif Malik (executive member, UoA Debating Society)
25 years ago, David Lange astonished New Zealanders and the world by arguing the proposition that "nuclear weapons are morally indefensible". Since then, the appetite for nuclear arms has been increasingly suppressed by calls for global disarmament. With Obama and Medvedev concluding a treaty to further downsize their nuclear arsenals, as well as a growing number of states calling for the elimination of nuclear arms, the world appears to be making positive progress towards disarmament. But can the human race completely liberate itself from the grip of nuclear arms? Is the total abolition of nuclear weapons a mere pipe-dream? Come and find out. Questions and answers will follow the debate so come along with some hard questions.
Note: the views expressed in this debate do not represent the official views of the organisations and institutions represented.
The Peace One Day is promoting peace and Peace Day, 21 September and is pleased to announce its FREE Peace One Day Global Education Resource. The resource uses lessons with reflective individual and group activities, critical thinking and modern technology. Through such experiences students will have opportunities to gain an awareness of Peace Day and what it stands for, as well the sense that they too, as global citizens, have an active role to play. Please visit http://www.peaceoneday.org/en/education where, after completing the short registration process, you will be able to access the Global Resource in all six language editions. Take action on peace!
This is the product of a budding, young film director, Rachael Bigelow, a 3rd year student at AUT studying a Bachelor of Communication, majoring in television.
Rachael's decision to support The Peace Foundation with her documentary film project on Cool Schools, has resulted in this great resource for primary schools implementing the programme.
This 10 minute informative film features a small team of eight Year 7 and 8 peer mediators from Stanhope Road School in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie. Elijah and Sharon, two student mediators, guide us through the steps of becoming a mediator and what is involved - including everything from application to mediating in the playground.
This DVD is highly recommended as a training resource for primary Cool Schools Co-ordinators who are training student peer mediators. It is also a valuable resource to show teachers so that they are reminded about the role of a mediator.
The Peace Foundation would like to acknowledge the staff and pupils of Flanshaw Road School, West Auckland, for their valuable contribution to the Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme in creating and providing this video clip of their unique and original SASA for viewing on our website.
Many thanks to the Flanshaw Road Cool Schools Co-ordinator, Mandy Martin, who created the Sasa to represent the key steps in the mediation process. A fantastic idea for other Cool Schools Co-ordinators to view. Well done. Your effort has been appreciated!
Jane Dunbar of Christchurch daily newspaper The Press discovers the power of peer mediation at Heathcote Valley School and talks with Tracey Scott, South Island Cool Schools Coordinator.
"It's lunchtime and the Heathcote Valley School playground is alive with sound and movement. Weaving among the swirling activity are Summer Rutherford, 11, and Eva Hooke, 10, on duty to help sort out problems.
The two girls are peer mediators - pupils who are trained to help resolve playground conflict. Wearing bright- yellow vests, they are easy to spot, and children approach them with their arguments." READ FULL ARTICLE
The Peace Foundation have heavily discounted clearance resources avaliable for sale. Resources on sale include books, posters, t-shirts, wristbands, CD's, DVD's, magnets and first day covers. Don't miss out, as 95% of stock is marked at half price, stocks will be limited. All discounted prices are valid while stocks last. The Peace Foundation continues to stock and sell a large range of other resource. For more information or to place an order contact the Foundation on (09) 373 2379 email admin@peacefoundation.org.nz
Passing Bells: Wars, Non-Violence & Common Morality by W.J. Foote
Will Foote has written several books on peace topics. In this book he looks at the appalling human cost of wars, particularly those in which our country has engaged, and considers the real and given reasons for those wars.
He shows that there have always been non-violent alternatives to war and looks forward to the day when non-violent people power will be used to eliminate poverty, the arms race and war.
“I feel that this is the best– and almost certainly last – [peace book] I’ve written.”
- 89-year-old author and life-long peace movement member Will Foote
Available from:
The Glen Press
Flat 1, 52a Aorangi Rd
Christchurch 8053
Phone: 03-351-8662
$20 each or $15 each for 2 or more copies.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today exhorted parliamentarians from across the globe to promote the cause of a nuclear-weapon-free world, a “personal dream” of the United Nations chief.
“After decades of work, it is clear that real change will come only through consistent, strong public pressure – on a global scale, and from the grassroots. That is why you are so crucial,” Mr. Ban told a joint gathering of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND).
PNND Global Coordinator Alyn Ware with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
“Lawmakers are experts in enacting and upholding the rule of law,” he said, “and their voices must stay at the heart of the debate.”
“It is the world’s taxpayers who are funding the development of nuclear arms,” the Secretary-General said. “Tomorrow, they could be paying a different – and much higher – price,” he emphasized, calling for an end to this “senseless” waste of resources.
Mr. Ban hails from the Republic of Korea, which he noted has witnessed the devastation wrought by nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in nearby Japan in 1945 and “has itself experienced the nuclear threat.”
The weapons do not enhance global peace and security, but rather, he said today, “put them in jeopardy.”
Characterizing them as a “moral dead-end,” Mr. Ban pointed out that momentum is building to rid the world of the scourge.
Earlier this week, the United States revealed that it has more than 5,000 warheads in its nuclear arsenal, which he said is a “chilling figure.”
But the country’s revelation is sign of its transparency, which in turn builds trust, the Secretary-General said.
Today’s gathering, entitled Advancing Nuclear Disarmament: The Power of Parliaments, comes as more than 100 nations are taking part in the five-yearly review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to discuss how to further full implementation and enhance the universality of the pact.
Mr. Ban told parliamentarians that he hopes negotiators at the NPT gathering will “seize the movement” and “think big” to achieve disarmament targets.
The Bullying Forum was a full-day event held in Onehunga, Auckland on 13 April. It looked at what kind of bullying is taking place, the methods of bullying that occur, what is currently being done to address it and how this can be improved upon.
Jonnie Black, an advanced mediator presented with Yvonne Duncan and Christina Barruel of the Peace Foundation on the benefits of the Cool School's Peer Mediation Programme.
Jonnie explains his personal experience of how mediation transformed him from bully to peacemaker in this video interview.
GreenPlanetFM 104.6 recently interviewed Peace Foundation President Yvonne Duncan, Cool Schools National Trainer Christina Barruel and UK lawyer Janine Edge on the positive benefits of teaching mediation within schools.
Alyn Ware explains how President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit this week in Washington is part of a series of initiatives to prevent nuclear proliferation and achieve nuclear disarmament - the most important of which could be the 4-week long Conference of States Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty taking place at the United Nations in May.
Alyn Ware co-ordinates the Wellington Office of the Peace Foundation and the UN Decade for a Culture of Non-Violence Schools Outreach Programme. He is also the International Co-ordinator for the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, and Consultant for the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms.
The Peace Foundation Youth Team has been working hard to mobilize responses for the civil society report at the end of the UN International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World 2001-2010. So far, responses have been received from initiatives in over 40 countries. Take part in the report! You can complete the questionnaire and enter information from your organization either online at www.decade-culture-of-peace.org or by email to evaluation@decade-culture-of-peace.org. Please use this email address also if you have any questions. Submissions may be made in five different languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian. LAST Deadline: April 30, 2010. Early submissions are highly encouraged.
ENACT is a new youth website dedicated to inspiring the participation of young people in peace issues; in Aotearoa and in the world as a whole.
It provides a forum for voicing your opinions and finding out about all things peace-related. It includes information and initiatives for youth on promoting peaceful relationships at home, in the community and around the world.
ENACT is an initiative of the Peace Foundation Wellington office.
The Peace Foundation will not be calling for entries this year. We will be working with Oxfam NZ and other key NGOs to develop a new set of awards to be launched in 2009. These will build on 25 years of the Media Peace Awards - to include peace, international development, human rights and environmental issues.
