EDUCATORS human rights? We encourage you to approach this book in a proactive manner, and to use the various strategies for disarmament and non-proliferation in the future tense, to bring about change and transformation. Youth action is critical in this future tense, and empowering young people to become teachers and learners themselves is one of the goals of this book. Education for disarmament breaks with the entrenched passivity of learning and waiting for teachers to tell students what to do. This book is more a user manual of how young people can take action themselves to create change in the world. We encourage you to use any part of the book and to select the strategies that best fit your situation and concerns. These ideas are meant to help us all imagine a more peaceful world for the future, and make it happen in the present.
THE UN EXPERT GROUP ON DISARMAMENT AND NON-PROLIFERATION EDUCATION
NOTE TO EDUCATORS
The UN Expert Group on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education was convened in accordance with General Assembly resolution 55/33 E to outline the future direction of DNP education. The six-point mandate of the Study produced by the UN Expert Group encouraged defining new methods for DNP education, and making recommendations for the implementation of this education at all levels of society. It encourages not only education about disarmament, but education for disarmament. DNP education, as defined by the study, is concerned with the development of skills and knowledge to empower people to contribute to the process of disarmament, particularly nuclear
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