Spanish Education and Government

When starting a new school year, many children around the world would have lost the opportunity to attend school due to their involvement in armed conflict . At the same time, most of these children begin to fight for their right to an education. In Colombia , where the clandestine wars have displaced about 1 million people since 1980, most of them women and children, the UNICEF program , " The children's movement for peace, " mobilized nearly 13 million people - children and adults - -a commitment to actively work for peace and social justice to end the violence in their country . " The children's movement " spent almost the entire year of 1996 campaigning for peace in a national mobilization effort , coordinated by UNICEF and REDEPAZ . In October of that year, nearly 3 million children from 8-18 years old, came to vote for a special referendum , exercising their human right to have their opinions heard on issues of importance to them , as articulated in " The agreement the rights of children "from 1989.
True, the mobilization effort was a unique approach to education. However, a country taught more about peace than any lecture could . reading .
For many years it was thought that peace education had to take place in a formal curriculum and teaching had to be on a definite subject. UNICEF's experience increasingly supports the idea that the best way to learn about peace is to be done - for practicing behavior that promotes peace. In Colombia , children took no formal examination on what they had learned about peace; instead they pushed it to the highest level of the public agenda , making peace, rather than violence , is the hope of the people.
In October 1997 , a year after the children voted for peace, 10 million adults followed suit. In a special ballot , voted "to build peace and social justice , to protect life, to reject all forms of violence and to respect the ' Mandate of child peace. ' " Using the ballot , Colombians claimed that the atrocities were completed and that international humanitarian law be respected .
However, Colombia still allows children to enlist with parental permission . In addition , a recent report by " observers of human rights , " the guerrillas , paramilitaries and the security forces continue to use children in combat zones . At the same time , the peace education does make a difference - because the next generation is taught and learned of the wise ideas of conflict resolution.