The peace event dubbed "Promoting a Culture of Peace" which began on Tuesday will continue till November 6 at the National College of Education in Pasdunrata, Kalutara.
In addition to international participants, the event will bring together Sri Lankan student-teachers and teacher educators from the National Colleges of Education, as part of a continuation of related activities they had undertaken throughout the year.
Previously, they had participated in events such as a literary competition on peace education and conflict transformation and peace events that linked student-teachers from Ruhuna, Jaffna and Batticaloa and other regions of Sri Lanka.
It is organized by the Ministry of Education and the National Institute of Education in cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)-supported Basic Education Sector Programme (BESP), in association with the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding.
As part of the peace event, a sub-regional (South Asia) workshop with the theme "Education for Democracy, Pluralism and Tolerance" will take place for teacher educators and teachers from India, Korea, Maldives, Japan and Sri Lanka.
This sub-regional workshop seeks to provide a critical conceptual view of Education for International Understanding (EIU) towards a culture of peace.
The participants are to practice a teachers' resource book introducing EIU concepts and methods. Participants in the workshop will thus obtain knowledge and skills enabling them to integrate themes and issues of a culture of peace, human rights, democracy and sustainability into their subject areas and schooling practices.
The workshop will provide opportunities to interact with participants and learn more about current issues related to peace education at the sub-regional level, to strengthen their networking for future mutual cooperation at the sub regional level and to develop a strategy and action plan towards a culture of peace.
