A Path to Global Health

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A Path to Global Health

• Theresa Dunn, Canadian Department of Peace
  Initiative

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Overview

• Goals
• To identify the war agenda in Canadian Culture
  and to motivate a commitment to rejecting those
  characteristics from our lives
• Define a culture of peace and how to recognize
  and support its integration into Canadian culture

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Overview

• Objectives

• To emphasize how a culture of war negatively
  affects the commitment to Global Health
• To demonstrate how a culture of peace increases
  Global Health
• To bring your attention to the growing
  consciousness and practices of a culture of
  peace

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Health

• Quality of Life Measures use five constructs that
  determine health
• WHO declared in 2002 that preventing violence is
  a public health priority

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Culture

• The system of shared beliefs, values, customs,
  behaviours, and artifacts that the members of
  society use to cope with their world and with one
  another, and that are transmitted from generation
  to generation through learning

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Culture of War

• Affects
• Home
• Work
• Environment
• Social network
• Access to education
• Language (intergenerational knowledge)

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Culture of Peace

• As defined by the United Nations, the Culture of
  Peace is a set of values, attitudes, modes of
  behaviour and ways of life that reject violence
  and prevent conflicts by tackling their root
  causes to solve problems through dialogue and
  negotiation among individuals, groups and nations
  
• (UN Resolutions A/RES/52/13 Culture of Peace
  and A/RES/53/243, Declaration and Programme of
  Action on a Culture of Peace).

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Canadas Culture

• How has Canada faired as a culture of peace?
• To address sources of violence
• Support for development
• Public discussion
• Research

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Where Canada Falls Short

• Indigenous Peoples
• Family
• Economic Development
• New Canadians
• International

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Innovative Approaches

• GNP enhanced by the GPI
• Peace Education
• Reclaiming of ancient knowledge
• Civilian Peace Services
• Restorative Justice
• Department of Peace

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Our Measures of Success

• The gross national product does not allow for
  the health of our children, ..intelligence of
  our public debate or the integrity of our public
  officials.
• It measures neither our wit nor our courage,
  neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our
  compassion nor our devotion to our country. It
  measures everything, in short, except that which
  makes life worthwhile. .-
• Robert F. Kennedy (U.S. senator, 1925-1968)

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Genuine Progress Index

• GPI identifies and measures
• Constructive from regrettable expenditures
• Values unpaid work
• An accounting of Natural Resources
• Pollution Inventories

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A Path to Global Health
Almost by definition, a focus on health
determinants in our core measure of progress will
shift our attention from treatment to prevention
we might expect expanded measures in the health
field to lead to a healthier population at less
cost Robert Colman GPI Atlantic
Rwanda from Path to Nonviolence
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Peace Education

• Peace Education has the power to provide the
  connection between a history and future focused
  on peace Peace education will nurture the
  next generation of leaders and adherents of
  peaceful means.
• Canadian Centre for Peace Education

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Preservation of Intergenerational Knowledge

• Recognition of ancient knowledge, tradition and
  practices Indigenous peoples resided here since
  8000 BC
• Overcome biases based on fear or romantic ideas

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A New Agenda for Defence
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Peace Forces

• Gandhi Army Shanti Sena (1922 ongoing)
• Pakthun Army Khudai Khidmitgar (1929-1948)
• Peace Brigades (1964-ongoing)
• Christian Peacemakers
• Germanys Civilian Peace Service
• Philippines Soldiers for Peace (1996-present)
• Nonviolent Peace Force (1999-present)
• Civilian Peace Service Canada (2004-present)
• Peace Cadets (?)

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Restorative Justice

• Examples of restorative justice programs include
• victim offender mediation
• family group conferencing
• sentencing circles
• consensus-based decision-making on the sentence
• victim offender reconciliation panels.

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Canadian Department of Peace Initiative

• Civil society movement to establish a Department
  of Peace
• Minister and Department would work proactively
  across parties and departments on all policy
  matters relating to conditions of peace
• (from Bill C-447, an Act to Establish a
  Department of Peace)

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Proposed Role of a Department of Peace

• Compel use of collaborative approach
• Review issues through viewpoint of political,
  civil and indigenous societies
• Research existing and cutting edge options
• Generate recommendations to leaders and public
  that promote prevention, good governance,
  evaluation and adjustment
• Assist in coordinating the information and
  approach of various departments with a vested
  interest in the issues

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Closing
In todays world, the culture of peace should be
seen as the essence of a new humanity Anwarul
Chowdhury World Report on a Culture of Peace, 2010
Michael T.Ayton
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CDPI Proposed Structure
PMO
Department of Peace
Department of Defence
Assessment, Prevention
Security and Defence
All Party Committee
Funding
Minister of Peace
Minister of Defence
Programming