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| Sunday, 1 August 2004 |
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New approach to global peace education The Japanese Peace Boat, which will be calling in Colombo shortly, is a new approach to peace education. It is based on the concept of bringing together from all countries young people who have an interest in peace and cross cultural understanding so that they will interact with each other and, by learning about each other's experiences in different countries, be able to make a more useful contribution to the uplift of their own. The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER) through a partnership arrangement with the Peace Boat has evolved a program to enable some of our most service oriented young people to make a greater contribution to peace and social welfare, through interaction with likeminded young people across the world. WICPER has arranged for four students representative of the four component groups of Sri Lankan society to join this Peace Boat voyage. They are Mr. Niran Anketell, Miss, Suzanna Beling, Mr. Sheamal Samarasekera and Miss Shahina Zahir - all of whom have shown a keen interest in social work. WICPER has also made arrangements for Rohan Edirisinha, a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo, to give a series of lectures on board. Judge C.G. Weeramantry will be delivering a series of lectures on Peace to the whole compliment of passengers, who are of all varying ages and are interested in the pursuit of peace. The Sri Lankan participants will join the Peace Boat in Singapore and sail on it to Colombo. |
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