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Help us make September 2018 the month of Learning to Live Together by organizing a local Celebration Meetup.

Imagine a world-wide community of educators, children, and youth celebrating interfaith and intercultural learning. Picture people in every country sharing ideas and exchanging experiences about peace education, all at the same time!

This is the LAST CALL to register your meetup.
Don't miss out, and join the movement!

Register your meetup before 20 August 2018: https://ethicseducationforchildren.org/en/ltlt10years

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From our Newsletter

Civil Society, Faith-based and Multilateral Organizations, and Academia Come Together to Address Violence in Early Childhood

Arigatou International Geneva launched a new Consortium with civil society, faith-based and multilateral organizations, and Academia to work together to challenge violence in early childhood and mobilize religious communities to support families in nurturing safe and protective environments for children.

The new Consortium will work to foster collaboration, share good practices and develop evidence-based and innovative approaches in religious communities that contribute to end violence in early childhood, challenging social and cultural norms that justify it and supporting families to nurture values and spirituality in children.

The Consortium was launched in Geneva from 3 to 4 July, preceded by a one day public seminar that looked at the intersections between early childhood development, violence against children, positive parenting practices, the critical role of nurturing spirituality in children that can break the cycle of violence in the family, and the role that religious communities play.

With Catholic Relief Services, the Early Childhood and Peace Consortium, End Violence Against Children, the Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace, the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Marta Santos Pais, Pastoral da Criança, Sarvodaya, Shanti Ashram India, UNICEF, Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religion - University of Montreal, World Bank, and World Vision International. Individual experts are also part of the Consortium: Ms. Caroline Arnold; Mt Rev. Bishop Duleep De Chickera; Dr. Ilham Nasser; Dr. Imam Rashied Omar and Prof. Anantanand Rambachan.

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Ms Maria Lucia Uribe, Director of Arigatou International Geneva is currently in Bogotá, Colombia to participate in the celebrations of the 10th Anniversary of the Learning to Live Together Programme and a Facilitator Training Workshop.

As part of her visits, an official meeting to the Ministry of Interior of Colombia to discuss potential collaboration in the framework of our work on ethics education for children to support intercultural and interfaith learning. The Ethics Education Initiative was presented as well as concrete examples of implementation of Learning to Live Together in several countries around the world.

The official meeting was hosted by the Directorate of Religious Affairs and open by Mr. Eduardo Garzon, Vice Minister for Participation and Equality of Rights, followed by Ms. Lorena Rios, Director of the new Directorate of Religious Affairs. The meeting was attended by representatives of the confessional schools of Colombia, as part of the Working Group of Education for Confessional Schools, as well as by a delegate from the Ministry of Education.

Ms Uribe attended the meeting with Mr. Fabian Salazar Guerrero, Coordinator of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) in Colombia.

We look forward to continuing the collaboration and to support interfaith and intercultural learning in the framework of the New Public Policy of Freedom of Religion and Belief.

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From our Newsletter:

Towards a World of Peace: The Promise of Early Childhood Development
by Dr. Rima Salah

"According to the series on ‘Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale,’ that was recently published in The Lancet (2017), the world’s oldest and best known medical journal, we know that unfortunately, an estimated 250 million children under five years of age in low and middle income countries and emerging economies will face inequalities and fail to reach their full development potential. This is because they grow up with a broad range of risk factors that include poverty, poor health, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, as well as inadequate care and learning opportunities..."

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