Worldwide Day of Schooling (January 24) highlights training as a human proper, a public good and a public duty. On this message Davion Leslie, Programme Supervisor, Human Useful resource Improvement, CARICOM Secretariat, illustrates the important want to make use of training as a device for selling peace in our Area.
The world is within the midst of a number of complicated transitions as demographic, financial and social elements converge to create uncertainties in regards to the future. Local weather change, rising youth unemployment, conflicts and discrimination are driving migration and creating tensions inside and between societies. On the identical time, widening earnings inequality, amongst different points, places the social contract below stress and creates gaps within the intergenerational solidarity wanted to keep up a peaceable and orderly society. Whereas the CARICOM Area has traditionally been a zone of peace, this should not be taken as a right, and all efforts to protect this have to be celebrated.
It’s towards this background that the CARICOM Secretariat acknowledges the significance of the theme for Worldwide Day of Schooling, 2024 – “Studying for lasting peace.” Certainly, whether it is true that peace begins at dwelling, then definitely it’s strengthened at college.
Our training system is a vital companion within the improvement and preservation of a peaceable society. On the macro stage, faculties help the peace effort once they put together college students to perform as well-adjusted members of society, productive and inventive members of the workforce and considerate and conscientious residents. Nevertheless, past this, the position faculties play in equipping college students with the abilities to barter compromise, handle their feelings, talk successfully and to critically assess shifting conditions and make sound judgements is on the basis of any peace-building initiative and is the core of the “studying for peace” agenda.
So, immediately, whilst we entreat all members of society to try and yearn for peace, we acknowledge the vital position that lecturers and faculty directors play in making certain that that is certainly a actuality inside the Group. We commend UNICEF for selecting to make use of the day to highlight this extremely related subject and to attract consideration to the position that studying performs in lowering private conflicts and contributing to the broader peace agenda.
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