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NR/016/2005 Building a Culture of Peace
Port of Spain (September 22, 2005) – “Building a Culture of Peace and Preventing Conflict in the Greater Caribbean” is the title of the seminar to be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this week, which will bring together a panel of international experts to examine the issue of peace-building and conflict prevention. The seminar will begin on the morning of September 22, 2005, with welcome addresses by a representative of the Foreign Affairs Secretariat of the Dominican Republic and the Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Dr. Rubén Silié. Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) will deliver the keynote address. |
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A joint undertaking between the ACS; Human Rights Internet (HRI); the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO); the Regional Coordinator of Economic and Social Research (CRIES); the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the seminar’s topics start from the premise that violent conflict is costly in terms of the human and material losses that it occasions and must be prevented in order to sustain economic and social development. Over the two-day period, participants will consider a range of issues including contemporary security threats; trafficking in persons, arms and drugs; youth violence and violence in schools and regional tourism and security, with a view to identifying threats to stability, building institutional capacity in areas of governance and finally reflecting on the design of a public policy for creating conditions for sustainable peace and development. |
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About the ACS The Association of Caribbean States is the organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. Its Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. Its Associate Members are Aruba, France on behalf of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, and the Netherlands Antilles. |
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For further information, please contact: Denise Lewis Martínez |
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