PIERRE WEIL

THEORETICAL AND/OR PRACTICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE CADIDATE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE EDUCATION FOR PEACE

Educational action in favor of the promotion of human rights and international understanding

1- Realisation of four Symposia about Human Rights and International Peace, with the Collaboration of the National University of Brasília, between years 1988 and 1992.

2 - From 1990 until the present time, systematic distribution of the Declaration ofHuman Rights to all participants of the Seminar on the Art of Living in Peace. According to the experience obtained about this subject regarding thousands of participants, by tens of animators and confirmed by Pierre Weil' s observations during his own seminars in South America and in Europe, only 10% to 15% of these groups have really read this declaration. For this reason the declaration is read and discussed in group. Here is a direct collaboration to the immense efforts of UNESCO, in the same direction.This reading is completed with the Declaration of Man's Responsibilities, of the Peace University, in Costa Rica..

3 - In 1999 Pierre Weil was invited to organise UNIPEACE in Israel, in arabic territory; the project includes a school where mohammedan, jewish and christian children will be educated together.