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Presidential Peace Conference Ann Frisch
The document discusses vocational training in unarmed civilian protection (UCP) as an essential strategy for preventing violent conflict and protecting civilians in crisis areas. It highlights the need for professional and community-integrated protectors, stressing the efficacy of involving women and local populations. Additionally, it emphasizes the potential of UCP training to aid in broader humanitarian efforts, including healthcare and economic development.
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- 2. 2 Training for peaceis vocational: for your profession and for your calling
- 3. 3 If you addup all the programs to protect civilians from violent conflict, it’s not even close to being adequate
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- 7. 7 violent conflict prevention& deterrence
- 8. 8 & direct protectionof civilians from physical harm & inclusion of civilians in the peace process
- 9. 9 3 major globalUN studies cited and recommended UCP
- 10. 10 Vocational training for professional unarmed civilian protectors •Full-time, 24/7, paid professional protectors • Multi-national • 50% women • Over half from host country • Strategic • Nimble • Immersed in community • Cost-effective
- 11. 11 Vocational training incivilian protection for women volunteers: 1,000 in South Sudan
- 12. 12 Training youth asceasefire monitors in Myanmar
- 13. 13 PROFESSION OR TRADE ACALLING, A MISSION WHAT IS A VOCATION?
- 14. 14 Imagine this! vocationaltraining in areas of violent conflict
- 15. 15 Vocational training fordirect protection of civilians and deterring and preventing violent conflicts
- 16. 16 Violent conflict prevention& resolution in every area of focus “Vocational training in UCP could help eradicate the remaining cases of polio in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, with conflict prevention strategies and protection of vaccinators… “Vocational training in UCP could help eradicate the remaining cases of polio in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, with conflict prevention strategies and protection of vaccinators…
- 17. 17 Violent conflict prevention& resolution in every area of focus Vocational training in UCP for: •Safe zones •Keeping schools, businesses, and health centers open Vocational training in UCP for: •Safe zones •Keeping schools, businesses, and health centers open
- 18. 18 Violent conflict prevention& resolution in every area of focus • Vocational training in UCP to do collaborative economic development & resolve water disputes • Vocational training in UCP to do collaborative economic development & resolve water disputes
- 19. 19 Imagine this! ARotarian led decade of Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World A culture of peace is… preventing violence and violent conflicts …based on education for peace, the promotion of sustainable economic and social development, respect for human rights, equality between women and men, democratic participation, tolerance, the free flow of information and disarmament.
- 20. 20 For $200,000, NPcould provide professional protectors in Northern Iraq, who could train thousands of women and men to be village protectors and peace monitors
- 21. 21 $50,000 could providea first online course in UCP for 90 Rotary Peace Fellows and related professionals with Nonviolent Peaceforce and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. (UNITAR) about •offices •events •log projects
- 22. 22 . We are ata stage in human history where we can say with confidence that there are better and more effective alternatives to war and violence. Patrick T. Hiller, War Prevention Institute
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Editor's Notes
- #3 If Rotarians were to start seeing peace and nonviolence as vocational training, there is no lack of models, standards, and curricula. They ranger from international standards for human and environmental rights, curricula for peaceful parenting parenting and teaching, training for youth, guidelines for Rotarians 4 way test and for community members Oshkosh Civilian Project. Model practices for community discussions, and
- #4 But programs to directly protect civilians in areas of violent conflict is quite another matter. If you add up all the programs to protect civilians from violent conflict, it’s not even close to meeting the need.
- #8 Violent conflict prevention/deterence
- #9 Direct protection of civilians from physical harm
- #10 2 Global UN studies and cited and recommended UCP
- #11 Vocational training for professional unarmed civilian protectors. Global grants could underwrite the vocational training for professional unarmed civilian protectors around the world.
- #13 When there is armed conflict, volunteer ceasefire monitors engage the armed parties, sensitizing them to the needs of civilians in the area and where necessary arranging for cessation of hostilities to keep people safe, taking them to hospitals and safe places.
- #14 We need to develop unarmed civilian protection as a profession and vocation for millions!
- #16 For direct protection of civilians and deterring and preventing violent conflicts
- #17 Rotarians, and community volunteers trained in UCP, could help eradicate the remaining cases of polio which are in areas of armed conflict. Volunteers in those areas could protect vaccinators, but could also contribute to the reduction of violence and the safety of civilians to make a safer place and mitigate polio and other contagious diseases.
- #18 Is there really conflict among businesses? We don’t see it that often. I would drop it.
- #19 We do not do collaborative economic development.
- #20 Start up team in Iraq: four UCPs who would train civilians to be village protectors and peace monitors. Northern Iraq NOT Mosul
- #21 Start up team in Iraq: four UCPs who would train civilians to be village protectors and peace monitors. Northern Iraq NOT Mosul
- #22 $50,000 will provide a first course in UCP for 90 Rotary Peace Fellows and related professionals with Nonviolent Peaceforce and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. (UNITAR)
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