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Main
aims of the project:
- To encourage
school education that increase understanding and respect between
people of different religions or world views and that foster knowledge
about and respect for freedom of religion or belief as a human
right,
- and by this
contribute to combat discrimination and intolerance based on religion
or belief and prevent violations of the human right to freedom
of religion or belief
Main focus:
The network will focus on the following three aspects
of education to meet with the aims.
- Education
for tolerance
- Education
about freedom of religion or belief
- Education
about religion or belief
Objectives:
- To
contribute to the collection, development, dissemination and use
of material for school education about freedom of religion or
belief as a human right and about tolerance with regard to religion
or belief
- To
evaluate different educational models (of civic and human rights
education and education about religion or belief) from around
the world to see if they contribute to tolerance and understanding
between people with different believes and worldviews and if they
are in compliance with international human rights standards on
freedom of religion or belief, and to encourage states to revise
existing models of education if necessary in order to achieve
the aims of the Madrid Consultative Conference
Main strategy:
To co-operate with other partners in developing a
global, interdisciplinary network that contribute to the development
and dissemination of material and to the evaluation of models as
lined out in the objectives. In particular, there is a need for
dialogue and co-operation between:
- people
with legal expertise in the field of human rights (and in particular
freedom of religion or belief)
- persons
with expertise in the field of education about religion and belief
and human rights/civic education, and
- people
with experience in inter-faith / inter-belief dialogue.
In order
to facilitate dialogue between persons with expertise in these three
different, but interrelated fields, The Oslo Coalition co-operate
with existing networks and organizations, both those with a regional
focus and those with a global focus. Co-operation with governmental
authorities as well as the UN system and other super-national organizations
is of importance to succeed. For instance the network will give
input to relevant institutions at the international and national
level about models and materials for education that might meet with
the aims and recommendations of the Madrid Consultative Conference.
Project organization:
- The
working group will take a main responsibility in developing and
implementing the strategy and plan of action of this network project
in cooperation and dialogue with the Oslo Coalition secretariat
and the project leader appointed by the Oslo Coalition Board.
- The
persons and organizations affiliated with the network will be
encouraged to contribute with input to both the planning and implementation
process and will be updated by regular information letters made
available on the Oslo Coalition Internet site.
- One
or two persons will be appointed to take a main responsibility
for each of the separate project that are listed in the plan of
action. Information will be sent out to all about who these persons
are and where they might be contacted. The project leader of the
whole project will be coordinating the actions of the different
minor projects.
For more information
about this TTFRB network project, see the Oslo Coalition web page.
Also see the May 2003 newsletter of the Oslo Coalition TTFRB project
(to be found at the web page).
The project
leader and the secretariat welcomes all responses and suggestions
concerning the presented plan and information about as well as initiatives
for co-operation with other partners and projects.
The secretariat
can be contacted at: lena.larsen@nchr.uio.no
The working group can be contacted at: sandvig@human.no |
