THE SEVILLE STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE

"The same species who invented war is capable of inventing peace"

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The Seville Statement on Violence NEWSLETTER, Volume 9, Number 3, April 1994.

Dear Readers,

It has been a great delight to get so much mail for this newsletter. The
Director-General of UNESCO has sent us a letter in which he speaks of the
importance or UNESCO’s new Culture of Peace Programme. He writes: "Just
as the Seville Statement on Violence con be said to 'prepare the ground for the
constructing of peace,' now the Culture of Peace Programme has the task of
helping people begin the work of construction." Professor David Adams is now
a senior programme specialist for the Programme and works at the
UNESCO headquarters in Paris. I enclose the Director-General's letter.

Professor emeritus Michael Nagler responds to the proposal of Prof. Genoves
in the last Newsletter for the next research agenda, the labyrinthine cultural
aspects and processes of violence".  According to Professor Nagler’s letter, this
is indeed a worthwhile topic to pursue, and one which he has worked on for
some time with support from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
of the University or California and Mac Arthur Foundation.  Nagler writes how
important it is to investigate the cultural and other processes of non-violence.

Very important letters come from Martha Low and Christopher Renner
(Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). Ms. Low is Choir of
the TESOL Rules and Resolution Committee and Mr. Renner is from TESOL
in Italy. TESOL has considered a resolution for endorsement of the
Seville Statement on Violence. The resolution is enclosed in this Newsletter,
along with an encouraging and interesting discussion, as published in the
TESOL-Italy Newsletter (January 1994).

The Seville Statement has recently been published in two books: Educacion
para la Paz by HICKS (Ediciones Morala S.L. Madrid) in Spanish; and
L'education a la paix by Centre National de Documentation pedagogique in
French.