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Goals Are Set by the Curitiba Municipal Council for the Culture of Peace
an article by Lia Diskin and David Adams
COMPAZ, the Municipal Council for the Culture of Peace of Curitiba, Brazil, has announced its goals on their blogsite.
Here is a rough translation:
a) to elaborate its Internal rules;
b) to contribute studies that include the culture of the peace in the Public administration;
c) to stimulate the creation of methodologies for an education directed toward the culture of the peace;
d) to offer mediation in conflicts of interests of any nature,
condemning violent actions, guiding and formulating peaceful solutions;
e) to collaborate in the stimulation of community projects for the development of the culture of peace;
f) to receive, to analyze and to implement, if approved by the Council,
requests for culture of peace initiatives and to give guidance to the
municipal agency involved;
g) to present and to give publicity to programs that contribute to the
culture of peace whether municipal, state, national or world-wide;
h) to listen to religious entities and traditions of all sectors of society, that have as an objective the culture of peace;
i) to follow the projects of law in all government spheres that can
promote the culture of peace and to contribute suggestions on them;
j) to collaborate with all government agencies in the analysis of
situations of conflicts that involve cultures of peace, giving emphasis
the General Office of the Attorney General of the City;
k) to promote seminars, symposiums, congresses, debates, meeting,
lectures, audiences with the objective to stimulate, to divulge, to
debate, to demystify the practices of diverse religious traditions in
order to promote attitudes of the culture of peace;
l) when requested by the Executive, to indicate a member of the Council
chosen by vote, to represent the City in events of the culture of
peace.
Here is an up-to date list of the civil society organizations
that are members of COMPAZ: Arquidiocese de Curitiba – Ação Social do
Paraná, Centro de Estudos Budistas Bodisatva Paramitta, Centro de Raja
Yoga Brahma Kumaris, Federação Israelita do Paraná, Igreja Pesbiteriana
do Brasil, Primeira Igreja Batista de Curitiba, Universidade Federal do
Paraná, Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, Associação Arayara de Educação e
Cultura, Associação Campos Unipaz Paraná, Associação Ciência Meditativa
de Cultura de Paz e Ação Social, CNBB (Coordenaçào Arquidiocesana da
Pastoral da Criança), URI (Iniciativa das Religiões Unidas), Centro de
Apoio Social, PREVIPAR (Associação dos Fundos de Pensão do Paraná),
Núcleo de Psicologia, SENAI e SESI.
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