Deadline: 30 April 2017
Applications are open for 8th International Conference on Human Rights Education on the theme Bridging our diversities, in Canada.
The Organizing Committee is seeking workshop submissions and paper proposals for the Conference, in English or French.
This conference will provide opportunities to share existing HRE experiences and tools. It will create spaces where practitioners, policy-makers and academics can explore how HRE can build more peaceful and equitable communities and provide effective solutions to current national and global challenges related to diversity, inclusion, reconciliation, conflict and the resulting violence based on extremism.
The overall goal of the conference is to develop a dynamic articulation of the value of HRE as well as to document a collection of innovative and effective HRE strategies and practices in order to respond to current global challenges.
Objectives
This 3.5-day conference will assemble approximately 300 practitioners, policy-makers and academics who will have the opportunity to:
- Discuss and document the contribution of HRE in tackling current global challenges
- Identify strategies for ensuring HRE becomes a higher priority for Governments and civil society organizations
- Share and document good HRE practices and success stories from around the world, that aim to promote respect for diversity and inclusion, strengthen social cohesion and reconciliation, promote sustainable development and provide alternatives to extremism and violence
- Reinforce existing efforts to build networks and communities of practice for human rights educators
Eligibility Criteria
The practitioners, policy-makers and academics from around the world can apply.
How to Apply
Applicants must download application form available on the given website.
For more information, please visit Call for Proposals.
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