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! This process is also expected to result in further increase of twining arrangements between African and Caribbean nations.
Sport and Culture as Tools to fight Juvenile Crime in Cartagena
www.globaleducationmagazine.com started a project in 2911 bringing together talented young musicians from different parts of Colombia with a view to playing together music from the parts of the country they never visited and whose music they never played. Part of the project is educational and your musicians gave master classes to groups in Cartagena which ordinarily only play music of African origin. The project will continue.
In common with many other cities of developing world, including Colombia, the City of Cartagena is fighting problems of increasing absenteeism of young people from schools, the huge increase in the number of bands called “pandillas”, involvement of young people in drug trade or use, large number of underage mothers, and other similar phenomena. It is generally agreed that the root cause of this problem, in addition to the large number of displaced people (the largest in the Americas) is poverty and lack of infrastructure providing young people with an opportunity to express themselves in cultural or sport hobbies after school. ! On the basis of ample experience of one of its lead partners, the Barcelona/Medellin/ Washington DC organization entitled “Ideaborn”, which already carried out similar projects in Central America and in Africa, ICPS has promoted development of a programme to use culture and sport as tools to fight crime in the City of Cartagena. This large multidisciplinary project involves departments of interior, education, culture, sport, prisons, legal services and many others. The fundraising from external parties has already begun and the project is expected to start shortly, In parallel, similar projects are now being planned for Medellin and also for Makati, one of the conglomerate of cities which make up Metro Manila. ICPS has a particularly strong relationship with central Government and civil society in the Philippines, the only country in Asia with Hispanic cultural heritage.
Promoting Sustainable Tourism: ICPS is aware that tourism, especially responsible, sustainable tourism, can contribute hugely towards better understanding amongst nations, especially as this economic activity has grown in to the world´s largest single industry. Cartagena de Indias is one of most attractive destinations in the Caribbean and the number of foreign tourists is constantly on the increase. ICPS was therefore pleased to join forces with Scripps Network (owners of Travel Cannel) to make a pilot video programme on Cartagena, with special emphasis on its history and musical diversity. The program is currently being edited in the United States in the hope that it will trigger a series of similar programs in other regions of Colombia and elsewhere in the Caribbean and South America.
Promoting National identity through music ICPS is aware that fostering national identity and pride through deeper understanding of musical culture is an essential component of education in South America. Most of the countries have very diverse musical culture and it is quite common for the population in one region to have no knowledge whatsoever of music in other regions. For this reason, CIPS
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