ICYO
YOUTH INFORMATION
No: 2007/44 (July)
(E-Newsletter
from network of youth organizations in India)
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ICYO - Platform of 356 Youth Organizations in India.
ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural
youth.
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First UNESCO Asian Youth Forum held in South
Korea
Plan of Action Formulate with Commitment to Work for
Promotion of Peace through intercultural Dialogue
The 1st
UNESCO Asian Youth Forum endorsed the ‘Jeju Island Resolution’ on last day of the Forum. The
participants also chalk out the action plan on each sub-themes.
The participants of the Forum
have decided to work towards putting into practice the actions recommended in
Jeju Island Resolution.
34 participants from 20 countries including
the Ms Shivangi Patel of ICYO, India and 13 observers were attended Forum from June 25-29, 2007 held in
Jeju Island of Republic of Korea (South Korea) and organized by Section
for Youth, Sport and Physical Education, UNESCO alongwith Korean National Commission for UNESCO. The Forum theme was ‘Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue to Ensure
Peace.
The five-day event is full of activities including the
discussions on themes and sub-themes, group activities and outdoor activities.
Jeju
Island Resolution
The following action plans of each sub-themes should
be promoted and implemented to advocate, develop and elaborate
capacity-building activities and other programmes aimed at reaching our main
theme “Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue to Ensure Peace” at all levels.
Sub-Theme I.
Intercultural and Interfaith Education to Ensure Peace
1.
Advocate and develop
capacity-building programmes among policy-makers, researchers, teachers and youth for intercultural and
interfaith dialogue to ensure peace.
2.
Collaborate
with partners, youth
groups and networks to promote intercultural exchange programmes and activities.
3.
Analyze
the cultural diversity of each country to gain a better
understanding of the situation and to promote intercultural and interfaith
dialogue
among its people.
4.
Build partnerships with educational
and training institutions to mobilize resources to fund fellowships, scholarships and grants for
΄cultural exposure΄ programmes.
5.
Involve UNESCO
field offices in the Asian region to educate and train young people in utilizing ICT tools and
platforms so as to
foster intercultural and interfaith dialogue.
6.
Disseminate knowledge about intercultural and
interfaith dialogue through various media channels.
7.
Organize youth leadership training programmes on intercultural and interfaith
discussion.
8.
Incite exchange among academics, experts
and leaders to encourage
support for
and commitment to the development of basic guidelines for intercultural and
interfaith dialogue.
9.
Introduce
intercultural and
interfaith
dialogue as a theme of ΄World Peace Day.'
10.
Explore avenues for proposing to youth-related Ministries the incorporation of intercultural and interfaith
studies in school curricula.
11.
Encourage all educational establishments to
upgrade or expand information on
cultural diversity in their cultural collections (i.e., books, CDs and DVDs).
12.
Advocate for the provision of additional amenities for students (i.e.,
internet facilities, etc.) to enable interaction with other
international students.
13.
Encourage teachers
to equip themselves with awareness, knowledge and skills on
intercultural and
interfaith issues.
14.
Propose to youth organizations that they cooperate with
UNESCO National Commissions in organizing educational sessions with parents and
teachers
on the promotion
of intercultural
and interfaith dialogue.
15.
Suggest the establishment of
literacy/training centres for young people so as to incorporate intercultural and interfaith
studies
and/or training into their school curricula.
16.
Create National
Discovery Programmes that provide
opportunities for participants to discover their country’s cultural diversity.
17.
Encourage existing youth
exchange programmes to incorporate intercultural and interfaith
issues.
18.
Organize sub-regional
youth forums on intercultural and interfaith issues focusing
on the actual needs of youth in a particular region.
19.
Organize socially-inclusive events that promote intercultural and interfaith
dialogue in local communities
and at educational
institutions.
Sub-Theme II. Combating Discrimination
and Promoting Cultural Diversity
1.
Use official forms that exclude race, gender, religion and age categories.
2.
Agree to guarantee equal opportunities.
3.
Promote cultural diversity in celebration and observance of ΄Intercultural and Interfaith
Day΄ through performances, public forums, immersion
programmes, etc.
4.
Gather youth leaders of diverse backgrounds to share, understand and agree upon commonalities, and to
take up the role of peer educators.
5.
Encourage and promote celebrations of cultural diversity (i.e., cultural performances).
6.
Organize an awareness-raising campaign on cultural
diversity among youth.
7.
Promote and conduct various intercultural and interfaith youth exchange
programmes such as festivals, exhibitions, studying competitions, etc.
8.
Encourage youth leaders to work together toward accentuating diversity within their
communities.
9.
Ensure the freedom to practice one’s own religion
among young people.
10.
Set up intercultural and interfaith study centres in
each country.
11.
Promote indigenous cultures via the exchange of
experiences at folk villages.
Sub-Theme III. The Media’s
Role in the Promotion of
Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue and Peace
1.
Develop programmes and activities to encourage a more socially responsible media with regard to intercultural and interfaith issues.
2.
Work in partnership with the organisers of existing media awards to include an ΄Intercultural and Interfaith Award΄ category for those who
display exemplary media social responsibility.
3.
Encourage
the media to promote events related
to intercultural
and interfaith issues.
4.
Establish partnerships between youth organisations and the media in organising a ‘Youth & Media Week’ to promote intercultural and interfaith dialogue; the programme should include exhibitions,
cultural performances, live interactive talk shows and workshops.
5.
Conduct
exchange programmes for young reporters that focus on the
promotion of peace through responsible media coverage.
6.
Establish
a network linking
university newsletters.
7.
Promote
peace by training young journalists in intercultural and interfaith sensitivity.
8.
Maximise
use of free electronic media to publicise the message of intercultural and interfaith dialogue.
9.
Encourage young people
to create interactive blogs and online forums, and involve diverse stakeholders
to provide them with the necessary support.
10.
Organise
campaigns to promote the dissemination of intercultural and interfaith information through the media.
11.
Encourage
young people to deliver intercultural and interfaith messages via postcards (e.g., through pen-pal project initiatives).
12.
Cooperate with relevant
organisations and networks (e.g., the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network
(ASPnet) and the AEC-NET of the Asia-Europe Foundation) on integrating media-relations into school curricula.
13.
Establish a UNESCO Asian Youth Forum alumni
network by keeping the ‘listserv’ open
so that participants can continue to interact, exchange ideas, and share effective practices.
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Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) is a registered non-profit,
non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual
cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth
groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in
India. ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India.
It's family consists of over 356 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22
states from different corners of India.
Our goal:
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To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth
Organizations;
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To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
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To promote effective youth programmmes;
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To organize network of civil society organizations working towards
the development of youth work;
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To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
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To maintain international relation with organizations promoting
young people in their programmes and activities
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for Habitat International Network (YFHIN); CRIN, South Asia Youth; Environment
Network (SAYEN); ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Network for Combating Trafficking;
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