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What's Next? - Part 2 - Looking Ahead to CTAUN's 2020 Conference - "War No More"

  • Cora Weiss, International Peace Bureau

Cora Weiss is devoted to the ideal of a culture of peace and the idea of peace education. 2020 will be the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, which was expressly founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”  So CTAUN will be focusing next year’s conference on issues of preventing war and promoting peace.

            Ms. Weiss spoke of 3 major causes of war:

  1. Climate change
  2. Nuclear weapons
  3. Species extinction  (the next Earth Day, April 22nd 2019, has been devoted to protecting our species)

           What does peace look like? What does it mean to our students? “If there will be no tomorrow, why should I go to school?” What is the impact of technology on war, and of gender in creating peace? What have Nobel Laureates to say about it?  There is today, violent conflict in 80 countries. Peace has to be made possible – “War No More –forevermore! “

Many thanks to our team of note takers, Nancy Brown, Peter Brosnan, Percy Mdunge, and Peter Nolis, and to those speakers who shared copies of their remarks  – Anne-Marie Carlson, Eve Gartner, Karenna Gore and Susan Blaustein – with gratitude to Peggy Montgomery for critical support.     TG

CURRENT EVENTS

Due to COVID-19 we are organizing a series of webinars online until it is safe again to hold in-person conferences at UN Headquarters in New York. Our most recent webinar "CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL HEATING: WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER TO RESTORE OUR BROKEN PLANET" took place April 22, 2022. Details and a link to the video are on the CONFERENCE page.

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

"MULTILINGUALISM - THE NEW GLOBAL COMPETENCE STANDARD: MOTHER LANGUAGE +2" took take place Monday February 21, 2022
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Our 21st CTAUN Conference at UN Headquarters in New York "WAR NO MORE" honored the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and its purpose as outlined in the Charter.
Click here for information on previous conferences

The CTAUN GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD was established in 2017 to honor the memory of CTAUN co-founder Barbara Walker. The first recipient was The Right Honorable Gordon Brown in 2018, followed by Richard Curtis in 2019. The 2020 recipient was Cora Weiss.

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