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World Organization of the Scout Movement 8 keys Media Scouting and Peace UNESCO

The 8 keys of a Culture of Peace Education for Peace Learning attitudes and skills that help us to live together. Free Flow of Information Giving everybody a chance to learn and share all knowledge. Respect for Human Rights Treating others as you would like to be treated. Tolerance and Solidarity Understanding and appreciating how people are different and how we can all help each other. Gender equality Ensuring an equal place for men and women in building society. Sustainable Development Insure and install the conditions of a real progress by offering to all tools of development which respect the different human communities and their environment. Democracy Making decisions by having your say and giving others theirs. Refusing Violence Acting peacefully and using conviction, listening and understanding for obtaining justice and equity. Education for Peace Learning attitudes and skills that help us to live together. In the past a lot of our education has been about war, about how countries were conquered and the outcome of battles. Now all the people of the world, and especially children and young people needs to learn about how to build a culture of peace. This means learning how to deal with differences without fighting or using force. We need to learn to live in harmony and to work together for a better world. Sometimes young people look at the situation of the world and feel overwhelmed by the size of problems. However, learning about peaceful ways to resolve problems can be the first step to changing the world. Children and young people may learn to live by the principles of a culture of peace in the classroom, in the playground, in scouting and in the neighbourhood. The skills and attitudes they learn can then be used on a wider scale to change relationships in work places, national governments and international relationships. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Free Flow of Information Giving everybody a chance to learn and share all knowledge. In our modern world information is very important. Some people have better access to information than others and this is not very fair. For example, during a tracking the team that learned to use a map and a compass will easily reach the goal. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Respect for Human Rights Treating others as you would like to be treated. It is important to treat others with the same respect that you would like for yourself. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Tolerance and Solidarity Understanding and appreciating how people are different and how we can all help each other. A school that is tolerant will value people from different cultural backgrounds. The textbooks would not have negative images of one particular community of people and there would be lessons about people from all over the world. New ways of looking at things, different customs, foods and festivals would be seen as adding richness to life. The person who is tolerant welcomes others and wants to find out more about the other individual experience, values and ways of looking at the world. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Gender equality Ensuring an equal place for men and women in building society. An example of the principle of equality for men and women is a Scout group where girls and boys are treateed equally. In this Scout group boys and girls have the same rights and chances to do activities and get things. One time they asked a very famous basketball player to come and teach them how to score points. He did not choose any of the girls to have a turn to practice the skills he was talking about. When the scouts asked why, he said that girls are not any good at catching. All the scouts left the court. In a group composed by boys and girls, eberybody has the same rights and can develop his or her own personnality. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Sustainable Development Insure and install the conditions of a real progress by offering to all tools of development which respect the different human communities and their environment. For example, if there is a activity to create a new gymnasium in the school there need to be discussion about the effect of this activity will have on all the people in the school and in the neighbourhood. If the new building covers the whole playground and can only be used for one sport then this would not be fair to all the children who used to use the playground for a lot of different games. Also, if the construction of the new building would pollute the nearby river, then the activity would hurt the environment. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Democracy Making decisions by having your say and giving others theirs. Democracy is more than national elections. Democracy is about being involved in making decisions about matters that affect our own lives. Democracy involves the right to express your opinions but also the responsibility to respect the opinions of others. Planning and carrying out Scout activities together can be good practice in democratic process.Important things to keep in mind when doing things in a democratic way are: who decides what the activity will be? are young people asked to comment and make suggestions? are the scouts listening to each other with respect? are people's needs considered (e.g. if someone is not able to hear well, will there be written instructions?) Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message! Refusing violence Acting peacefully and using conviction, listening and understanding for obtaining justice and equity. An example of non-violence is a school in which there is no bullying. In this school the young people enjoy working and playing together. Of course they sometimes disagree with one another but they deal with their differences by talking and working together to find solutions. They do not get their own way by physical violence such as hitting and kicking, threats, teasing, or excluding others from games or play areas. Do you know other examples to describe this key? Send us a message!