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Second Culture Congress "Culture of Peace" 16 - October 18, 2000
 
1997 session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2000 as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and Development Culture of Peace and Child Protection in the years 2001-2010 in order Hatred of violence left 10 years Unesco has declared the implementation of the program. Accordance with this decision, the General Conference of UNESCO in October 1999 agreed program of action in this regard and Member States to take measures for the promotion of civil society organizations called on a Culture of Peace. İzmir Culture, Art and Education Foundation and UNESCO principles of these proposals in the light of the 16 to 18 October 2000 Dates Izmirim decided to organize an International Conference on the Culture of Peace.
 
Objectives of the Congress
Saptamak.Barış suggestions should be taken for the development of a Culture of Peace Culture What is it?
Culture of peace, equality, justice, democracy, human rights, tolerance, and based on the principles of solidarity and a culture that supports live together and split. It is against the culture of violence, conflict prevention tries to take down from the roots. Dialogue and tend to solve problems through mutual negotiations. Enjoyment of all the rights and participation of everyone in the community development process is intended to secure. Cultural and educational ways to reach these goals.
 
Participants
Chingiz Aitmatov
Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan in Brussels, Author
Prof. Dr. Nermin Abadan Unat
BU. Dept. of Political Science and International Relations.
Prof. Dr. Oguz Adanir
DEU. Faculty of Fine Arts
Yasar Al-
Newsman
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Aydin,
DEU. Seminary
Onder Aytac
Police Academy Instructor
Babaoglu Haşmet
Journalist
D. Bartholomew
Greek Orthodox Patriarch
Prof. Dr. Bulent Berkarda
IU. Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Copper Ages
IU. Faculty of Political Sciences
Prof. Dr. And Steel
International Law Expert
Yusuf Cetin
Assyrian Church Istanbul Metropolitan
Nuri Colakoglu
Journalist
Shakir Eczacıbaşı
Culture Initiative, Ist. President of the Foundation for Culture and Arts
Oktay Ekinci
The author, President of the Chamber of Architects
Tarik Ziya Ekinci
Diyarbakır former deputy
Prof. Dr. Ufuk Esin
IU. Prehistory Specialist
To evaluate Turgay
Poet Author
Mustafa Gazalcı
Trainer
Prof. Dr. Cevat Geray
AU. Faculty of Political Sciences
Ali Ihsan Göğüş
Former Minister of Tourism
Nail Gureli
President of the Journalists Association of Turkey
Prof.Dr.Bozkurt Güvenç
Presidential Adviser
Isaac Haleva
On behalf of the Chief Rabbi
Diomonsi Bombote
Enform UNESCO Regional Bureau in Dakar. Md., Journalist
Prof. Dr. Khatami Husrev
IU. Faculty of Medicine.
Accelerate arising from
Newsman
Helvaci MN
Turkey's Human Rights Association
Prof. Dr. Ihsanoglu Ekmelettin
History of Islamic Arts and Cultures Ar. Merk.
Prof.Dr.Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
Koç University
Professor Rusen Keles
AU. Faculty of Political Sciences
Professor Emre Kongar
IU: Faculty of Political Sciences
Professor Ioanna Kuçuradi
Agency for Türk.Felsefe.
Tamer Levent
President TOBAV
Ercan Karakas
Former Minister of Culture
Fikret UCCA
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture
2.Mesrob Mutafyan
Tan Oral
Cartoonist
Professor Niyazi Oktem
Ist. University of Information
Professor Gonul Oney
EÜ. Vice-chancellor
Tuncay Ozkan
Kanal D Editor in Chief
Alfredo Picasso
UNESCO Expert (Peru)
Shree Mars
Öğr.Üyesi, National fencer
Prof.Dr.Metin Sözen
President of ÇEKÜL
Leyla TAVSANOGLU
Journalist
Hifzi Knob
Author
Turan Prof.Dr.Şerafettin
Former President of TDK
Vassilis Vasilikos
The Delegate of UNESCO Greece
Professor Tahsin Yücel
IU. Faculty of Arts
 
Final Declaration of the Second National Congress of Culture
With the decisions of the General Assembly of the United Nations and UNESCO General Conference in 2000 on the declaration of the International Year for the Culture of Peace, Izmir Culture, Art and Education Foundation, the Cultural Initiative, together with 16 g of a Culture of Peace Congress was held October 18, 2000 in Izmir. Approximately more than a thousand people followed the Congress, 50 papers presented on the development of the peace culture, the following decisions were discussed and the meeting was concluded at the end.
 
• Culture of Peace, peace, a different concept. Culture of peace, equality, justice, democracy, human rights, tolerance and solidarity, based on the principles and live together, share a culture that supports. Culture of Peace is against violence, conflict prevention tries to take down from the roots. Dialogue and tend to solve problems through mutual negotiations. Everyone to benefit from all the rights and the community to participate in the development process is intended to secure. These goals, culture, art and education reaches ways. All non-governmental organizations, as well as the creation of the Peace Culture, Education, Culture and the Ministry of the Interior is responsible. However, this issue is not only the state policy.
 
• UNESCO in 1947, Mexico, Peru, in 1986, the same year the meetings held in Seville, psychology, genetics, anthropology, social anthropology, and brain research experts, the people of modern biology does not convicted of war and peace, war, people living in also reported that may create.
 
• Congress and the General Assembly of UNESCO, as highlighted participation in the war has not been ancestors of mankind.
• War, or any other violent behavior, there is no human nature genetically.
• in the evolution of humanity, aggressive behavior is superior to the other to say that such behavior is wrong.
• carries the violence of the human brain is not true. Neurophysiological factors do not forcing people to violence.
• War is not an instinct, and it is a motivation kaynaklanamaz direction.
• Peace does not mean the end of the armed conflict.
• factors that are threatening the peace.
 
Economic decay, unemployment, social inequalities, imbalances between industrialized countries, developing countries, to spoil the nature of land into desert, environmental pollution, arms production and sales not put borders, can not be eliminated arms trafficking, drug trafficking, crime and corruption, insufficient struggles.
 
• Conference of UNESCO, as specified In order to prevent war culture in Peace Culture, freedom, justice, democracy, tolerance and solidarity should be created on the principles of an established culture of sharing.
 
Culture of Peace, come against violence and resolve disputes through dialogue should allow.
 
Culture of Peace, to take advantage of all the rights that everyone should be conducive to the development of society in its own terms.
 
• Those who have earned the Nobel Peace Prize in late 1999 issued a "Culture of Peace and Violence Anti-Manifesto" as stated in all sentient beings, without discrimination, must be respected;
 
Physical, sexual, psychological, social, and economic actions against all forms of violence against the poor, especially children and should be reached.
People and societies behave generously to split their resources and thus must oppose dışlanmalarla political and economic pressures.
 
• People must look to listen to get to know each other better.
• use of natural resources consumption, and an appropriate balance of responsibility should be heard.
• Women benefit from all the rights of people and created new forms of solidarity. School books and history books, especially xenophobia, chauvinism, racism, women's inferiority is seen and "explosive materials" must be removed from the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe Documents should be used for this purpose. Peace culture in textbooks, the individual should be given the respect and solidarity. Culture of Peace should be considered as a subject taught in the schools, all school textbooks should be revised.
• Poverty, hunger, unemployment, inequality, globalization, the act of endless inflation, arms trafficking, trafficking in faith, exploitation, order, and peace advocates coplandığı is dominated by the Mafia, was arrested and tortured easily take place in the culture of peace in societies.
 
Today, a section of media, the formation of a continuous culture of violence against the major obstacle to peace is one of the publications containing element.
Mass media publications, democratic, humane, according to the principles of peaceful executions. Be carried out without delay all the necessary arrangements for this.
• Unhealthy cities, unhealthy brings together human relationships. Protection of natural and historical tissues in the cities, providing humanitarian nature constructions, will contribute to the development of societies, the peace culture.
• Civil society organizations, the protection of public peace by taking on a task, solving the problems of society and take part in the democratic decision-making process. Hindered the work of civil society organizations freely.
• behavior of the security forces in social events, is of great importance for the Culture of Peace. Security forces, democratic and respectful of human rights, the creation of trained cadres, vital for a Culture of Peace value.
• Literature and all the other arts, they contain human features, and peaceful approaches to bring all aspects of life, with the help of individuals and communities are important Navies with a Culture of Peace. All societies have katmanlarınca be accessible art and literature, peace will spread culture.
• In order to strengthen the bonds of friendship between Turkey's neighboring countries must be focused on four projects:
 
- Kaya Village of friendship, peace and the revival of architecture in the village.
 
- Gallipoli Peace Park is a national park, a world transformation.
 
- Sarikamis Allahu Akbar is lost in the mountains in the region 90 000 people to a peace park.
 
- The history of Turkish-Armenian border town of Ani, the city of realization of a friendship.
 
• a combination of various beliefs in societies, in order to contribute to the survival and culture in peace, peaceful spots between them on the basis of common human beings will create peace, believed to be his own hands.
• Peace culture in Southeastern Anatolia, was re-established economic and cultural measures should be taken in the direction of the implementation should be accelerated.
• to provide support for cultural tourism in Culture to Peace, international joint projects, produced and peaceful tendencies of tourists in Turkey more closely defined.
• Culture of Peace settlement depends on a large extent to the development of a culture of democracy in all areas. Conveying the nature of the principles of democracy by removing only the written rules, the ability to practice in all aspects of life finds a Culture of Peace on earth salabilecektir much deeper roots.

 

 

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