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Learning to Live Together, a resource material to nurture ethical values needed to learn to live together in plural societies, is now available for teachers and youth leaders. Read more ...
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Learning to Live Together
Children in World Religions
Children and Media
Child Rights
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After the South Asia Ethics Education workshop held in Coimbatore in 2006, Karthikeyan initiated a project for the promotion and protection of children rights in schools. He has visited many schools and spoken to hundreds of children about the importance of learning about their rights and how they can help fostering a culture of respect for the dignity of other children in India.You can download the Diary of this Young Indian Leader by clicking here
GNRC members in Israel arranged an interfaith learning and peace building program for Jewish, Christian and Muslim youth in Israel in July 2007. The Toolkit for Ethics Education through Interfaith Learning was used to design the program. The full report of the week long program gives an account of the planning process and the implementation of the program without discarding difficulties and lessons learned in arranging the programs. The Report brings us along on the Journey and it is an example of a Best Practice in using the Toolkit. Click here to download the full Report of the Massa - Massar (The Journey - The Path) program in PDF format.
More information can be obtained by writing to the GNRC Coordinator in Israel, Ms. Dorit Shippin at dorit@nswas.org
A Report on an interfaith learning and peace building program arranged by GNRC Israel in July 2007
Massa-Massar "The Journey-The Path"
Contribution by Dr. Alice Shalvi, a member of the Interfaith Council to a panel discussion at the International Congress on Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue, Bilbao, Spain, in December 2005.
A European workshop for the development of GNRC Youth Groups was held from 26 to 29 November 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland to help strengthen the youth participation and involvement in the region. The four-day workshop trained the youth leaders on the development, facilitation and follow up of interfaith youth activities using the Learning to Live Together manual. Among the participants were youth leaders from Belgium, Denmark, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Samoa and Spain. Read more....jpg)
A training workshop to introduce the Learning to Live Together manual was held in Bucharest, Romania from 8 to 11 November 2009. The workshop aimed to introduce the manual to teachers, social workers, theologians and child protection authority representatives. 26 participants hailing from different parts of Romania, Sweden and Switzerland became acquainted with the manual and willing to introduce it in different educational settings in their countries. Read more...The study team of the Joint GNRC - UNICEF Study met in Florence 15 - 18 October for its Second Meeting at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Center
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has assured Rev. Keishi Miyamoto and a high-level GNRC delegation of his support for stronger ties between the GNRC and the United Nations and its agencies, in particular UNICEF and UNESCO.
SAN SALVADOR - Press Release published in the "Diario CoLatino",November 3, 2007.
Representantes de la Red Global de Religiones a favor de la Niñez y Religiones por Paz El Salvador, pidieron al Ministerio de Educación introducir en la currícula el manual de educación ética y valores.
Representantes de la Red Global de Religiones a favor de la Niñez y Religiones por Paz El Salvador, pidieron al Ministerio de Educación introducir en la currícula el manual de educación ética y valores.
TOKYO/GENEVA, September 7, 2007 — Religious leaders from around the world and top UN officials will launch a worldwide initiative promoting ethics education in May 2008 at the Third Forum of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) in Hiroshima, Japan.
Multi-faith (multicultural) Calendar for the main religious faith in Britain
Pre-School through Grade Twelve
I come from India and bring with me warmth and love for everyone here from millions of Swadhyayees from all over the world...
As a university professor it is a rather rare case for me to speak to school children...
Arigatou International is now researching and documenting best practices on the use of Learning to Live Together in formal and non-formal education with the objective of helping organisations, institutions, youth groups, teachers and facilitators to better use the material. Read more...