Dear friends,
On the framework of the Global Campaign for Peace Education launched by the Hague Appeal for Peace , we invite you to the Post Graduate Seminar " Education for Democracy, Culture of Peace and Human Rights: an educational challenge for Educating Cities" , October 4 - 5 - 6 - 12 13. National University of Rosario, Argentina.Please see program below.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo
Director /
Educating Cities Latin America
International Relations Bureau
Municipality of Rosario, Argentina
Phone/Fax (54) (341) 480 2275
E-mail: ce_americalat@rosario.gov.ar
Buenos Aires 711, Piso 2
S2000CEB Rosario - Argentina

Educating Cities Latin America & Universidad Nacional de Rosario

An educational challenge for the Educating City

4th, 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th of October 2004. Headquarters of Rosario National University

FUNDAMENTALS
Education for Democracy, fostering a Culture of Peace and respect for Human Rights, has today evolved to become an issue of acute actuality at a time when democratic virtues stand in stark contrast with the direct and structural violence with which we are daily confronted.

The analysis of Democracy, Culture of Peace and respect for Human Rights should by no means be delegated a subsidiary role in politics nor in the field of higher education.

In the course of the past 20 years these concepts have been subject to a steady evolution. Today, the ample and complex notions of Democracy, Human Rights and Culture of Peace suggests that in a modern State of Rights, equity, justice, respect for peoples’ rights, cultures of multi-ethnicity and pluralism and civil participation in politics are regarded as necessary conditions.

The academic approach to these concepts constitutes a political and educational challenge. With this challenge a potential for rigorous reflection arises, a potential which must be regarded as a step on the road to the collective construction of possible solutions as a political social practise.

OBJECTIVES
To enable the development of a practical understanding of the concepts of Democracy, Civil Participation, Human Rights and Culture of Peace

To analyse the trends in the international protection of Human Rights; legal statutes and mechanisms ensuring its international survivability

To stimulate, within a transformational ethic-political framework of reality, the analysis of, and the reflection on, the restoration of Democracy

1- Introductory Session - 4/10 (6pm – 10pm)
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Ferreira / Prof. Dr. Alicia Cabezudo
The problem of the origins and historical genesis of Human Rights. Evolution of the modern conception of Human Rights. Universality of human Rights: Theory and criticism.
The so-called "Generations" of Human Rights. Historical and conceptual analysis.
Definitions and different conceptions of Peace. Peace and Violence as areas of investigations.
Positive and Negative concepts of Peace
The concept of Violence; Direct and Structural Violence.
Culture of Peace as an integration field of different issues. Reach and scope.

2- Governance and Democracy. The Inter-American System of Human Rights – 5/10 (6pm – 10pm)
Prof. Dr. Fabián Salvioli / Dr. Hermes Binner
Democracy as an institution conducive to the development of politics promoting Human Rights and a Culture of Peace
Democracy in the Inter-American system of Human Rights
Democratic Systems: categories of analysis; governance.
Policies of inclusion and of socio-economic transformation as strategies of governance. Representativity and Participation..

3- System of Human Rights International Protection – 6/10 (6pm – 10pm)
Prof. Dr. Fabián Salvioli
Trends in the international protection of Human Rights.
National and International legal instruments; Guaranteeing mechanisms
The specific protection of Human Rights as a stage in its historical evolution, and as a response to the needs of individuals; The particular case of Women's Rights.

4- The Ethical Reconstruction** of Economic Reality – 12/10 (6pm – 10pm)
Prof. Dr. Howard Richards
The Ethical Transformation of Economic Reality
A philosophical interpretation of the methodologies of social transformation: Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci and John Dewey.
The post-modernist challenge and contribution.
The functional and pragmatic equivalence of different ideologies.
Changing neo-liberal mythologies to an ethical-scientific proposal

5- Democracy, Human Rights and Culture of Peace - 13/10 (6pm – 10pm)
Prof. Dr. Fabián Salvioli / Dr. Hermes Binner / Prof. Dr. Alicia Cabezudo
The construction of Democracy from the basis of public administration. The perspective of local governments.
The relationship between micro and macro.
Participatory Democracy, Human Rights and Culture of Peace: a Challenge of our Times
The construction of citizenship as an interdisciplinary educational imperative in education, public policies and the professions.

Information: E – mail: cei@sede.unr.edu.ar / ce_americalat@rosario.gov.ar
Translator Spanish-English : Mr. Hans Ola Haavelsrud