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Award Ceremony for the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2003
Monday 8 September 2003, at the UNESCO House
Laureate: Father Emile Shoufani (Israel)

Honourable Mention: Ms Yolande Mukagasana (Rwanda/Belgium)


PROGRAMME

2.30 p.m.: Round Table "Culture of Peace and the Foundations of Reconciliation" (Room II)

Provisional Agenda

Introduction by Koïchiro Matsuura
Director-General of UNESCO

Moderator
René Zapata
Deputy Director, Bureau of Strategic Planning, UNESCO

Participants:

Emile Shoufani (Laureate of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2003)
Director of the Saint-Joseph Greek-Catholic School, Nazareth

Yolande Mukagasana (Honourable Mention of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2003)
Founder of the Association “Nyarimambo Point d’Appui - Fondation pour la mémoire du génocide au Rwanda et pour la reconstruction”

Angel Astorgano Ruiz
Secretary-General of the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC)
Organization by the OIEC of a Training Seminar for Trainers in Peace, Tolerance and Reconciliation Education in Kinshasa in August 2003

Christophe Bouillet
Historian, Peace and Conflict Specialist at the Caen Memorial, France
Extension of the Caen Memorial: from the Memory of War to Education for Peace

David Mumford
International Coordinator for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Faith, Gender and Reconciliation

Edith Ballantyne
Special Adviser on United Nations matters, Women International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Women in Reconciliation – Picking up the Pieces

Open Discussion

Conclusions:

Monique Fouilhoux
President, NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee


5 p.m.: Prizegiving Ceremony (Room I)

Provisional Agenda

Speeches and Award of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2003

Address by Ms Lucy Smith, President of the International Jury of the Prize

Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and presentation of the statuette and cheque to Father Emile Shoufani (Israel) and the diploma to Ms Yolande Mukagasana (Rwanda/Belgium)

Address by Father Emile Shoufani (Israel), Laureate of the Prize

Address by Ms Yolande Mukagasana (Rwanda/Belgium), Honourable Mention of the Prize

Cocktail



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Author(s) UNESCO
Publication Date 28-08-2003
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