The 10^th International Session on Human Rights
and Culture of Peace Education
(December 4th – 8th, 2000)

On December 4th – 8th, 2000 the Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights in the Russian Federation, the Moscow Committee of Education, the Moscow School of Human Rights, the International Society for Human Rights held in Moscow the annual

10^th International Session
«Culture of Peace, Human Rights – Content and Methods of Education»

(training for secondary schools teachers, higher schools professors, instructors on social sciences, lecturers, managers of educational institutions, social workers, NGOs representatives to prepare them to human rights civic, democracy and peace education).

The session was carried out in the frameworks of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education and International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World.

Famous specialists in the sphere of law, political science, pedagogy, etc., representing Russian and international organizations, take part in the Session.

The following problems were discussed:

• civic education: experience of open societies – problems of Russia;
• international norms on human rights, the rights of the child, and mechanisms of their protection;
• human rights in the democratic and post-totalitarian states;
• human rights, culture of peace and non-violence education in the system of general education (aims, content and methods of education and upbringing);
• human rights and conflicts: ways of their resolution;
• novations in the human rights theory.

During the Session its participants visited high and secondary schools of Moscow, governmental institutions and human rights NGOs to get acquainted with their work in these fields.

Training and literature stuff were free of charge for the participants.

Applications to participation in the Session were accepted until November 15, 2000.

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