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Steroid rage - ill behavior, accompanied by

uncontrolled and sudden outbursts of anger.

I'm sure many of you We heard about this concept

a steroid rage.

She often camouflage athletes who were accused

in different kinds of violence.

However, protection was enough say the magic words:

"My client could not himself control, because

He had a steroid rage " as a judge, instead of objective

conviction or significantly softened his,

any and all treatment is prescribed.

After all, we have already talked about the sick man, what to take with him.

For a while it became favorite practice

protection in all cases in which featured athletes.

This was one of the reasons that steroids became

illicit drugs.

They actually equated Drugs.

Does this mean that the steroid Fury does not exist?

No, she really exist.

But let us all in order.

At the head of the steroid angle It is the primary male

sex hormone - testosterone.

It is responsible for the degree of male dominance.

Nature has disposed so that the men initially

more aggressive than women.

This is due to physiologically.

The more testosterone - The stronger increases

aggression.

It is not casual to our ancestors the competition had

physically defend their the right to superiority

and place under the sun.

Despite the development of society, intelligence and morality

biochemical processes in our bodies continue

act on all the the same laws and principles,

as before.

This means that often we can do things,

Running counter to the logic and common sense.

Someone looked askance, cropped on the road, Naham.

A desire to fill boor face.

However, sensible People easily dampens a

this impulse.

When you use exogenous testosterone, its concentration

in blood greatly exceeds physiological.

Does this mean that you become mad aggressor?

No.

We are, for the most part, awarded by the intellect,

which allows us not stoop to primitive

reflexes.

Now explain to the fingers.

If you initially know how control yourself, then

even though increased aggression and confidence level

a derived from high doses of testosterone, self-control

you will not lose.

Again, various steroids have different effects on the

factor, not to mention individual susceptibility.

Bursts of aggression on the course known only to a small

the percentage of people who use pharmacology.

Overwhelming majority It is easy to deal with it.

One and the same stimulus on the course and off-course perceived

practically the same.

However, all the rules have exceptions.

If a person is too arrogant, brained, irritable

and aggressive by nature, the steroids only strengthen

instability of his mind.

This goat itself a threat to society, steroids

only slightly strengthen its inadequacy.

But we all know on it will refer to the

court a mountain athlete.

Damned steroids.

They are to blame.

The medical center of New England conducted the study,

aimed at proving or disprove the existence of

Depending on the use steroids and manifestations

antisocial and cruel behavior.

The groups were selected people with stable psyche,

without deviation in behavior.

The control group received 600 mg of testosterone to

week for 10 weeks.

As a result, they have not been identified no deviation in behavior.

A man with a cool head on the shoulders can easily redirect

further aggression in business, in training,

sex at last.

Increased confidence a in this case

It interferes, but only helps.

If you have originally explosive nature and unstable

behavior, you often find yourself in trouble have

multiple problems with the law and looking for a reason

for unwarranted conflicts - It is not a steroid rage,

the matter yourself.

Learn to think like adult and take

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National security officials and large firms oppose President Trump's travel ban in court - Duration: 1:45.

New voices of opposition have been raised against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration

ban.

This comes as the Justice Department has asked the appeals court to restore the ban that

prevents people from several mostly Muslim countries coming to the United States,...

arguing national security is at risk.

Kim Mok-yeon has the latest.

On Monday, ten former high-ranking diplomatic and national security officials filed a declaration

in the court case, arguing President Trump's travel ban serves no national security purposes.

Some 100 large conglomerates including Apple, Google and Microsoft have also banded together

to file a brief opposing Trump's travel ban.

Local media reports say the states of Washington and Minnesota already filed a lawsuit earlier

in the day, saying the executive order was separating families and damaging the states'

economic interests.

More than 280 law professors also filed an amicus brief, accusing the order of undermining

the values of an open academic exchange.

Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma also issued a strong warning against Trump's anti-globalization

plans,... saying "if trade stops, war starts".

Experts predict the Court of Appeals will decide within a week on whether to restore

Trump's executive order which was frozen by a U.S. district judge last Friday.

President Trump attacked the judge, saying the judiciary should be blamed if a terror

attack occurs.

He also hit out through Twitter,... claiming that polls that reflect negative views about

his travel order are "fake".

President Trump's now-frozen order had temporarily barred refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority

countries from entering the United States causing chaos at airports in the U.S. and

around the world.

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Korea's Constitutional Court is holding its eleventh hearing in the impeachment trial

of President Park Geun-hye.

For the details, let's cross over to our reporter Kim Ji-yeon who is at the court for us.

Ji-yeon, what are we hearing so far?

This morning, the National Assembly's impeachment committee questioned former K-Sports Foundation

secretary-general Jung Hyun-sik as a witness.

Jung was asked about the establishment of the foundation, allegedly run by President

Park's confidante, Choi Soon-sil... and whether the president was involved in the foundation's

establishment and operations.

Jung testified that he was interviewed by Choi for the audit job at the K-Sports Foundation...

and later he said former presidential secretary for policy coordination An Chong-bum called

him to congratulate him on getting the job.

As a result of An's call, Jung said he thought the presidential office supported the foundation

and that Choi received orders from the top office.

Jung said he had met An six times but said he had never known or contacted An before

he started work for the foundation... and said he suspected Choi and An were somehow

able to share information about the foundation with each other.

This testimony contradicts that of An and Choi who both deny knowing each other and

said they were not in contact.

Jung said Choi always had the final say on employment or department deployment decisions,...

adding that he was ordered by Choi to use a borrowed cellphone when talking to her.

Later today, former culture minister Kim Jong-deok will testify as witness.

The court will also decide later this afternoon on whether to take on 17 more witnesses...

submitted earlier this month by the president's lawyers.

The potential witnesses include some heads of conglomerates -- SK Group Chairman Chey

Tae-won , Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin and Posco Chairman Kwon Oh-joon -- as well

as Choi Soon-sil and An Chong-Bum ... who both appeared at the impeachment hearings

last month.

Back to you.

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Youth Advocacy in an Image-Driven World - Duration: 49:22.

So after lunch we are continuing to

share resources for you and your

students.

Our next speaker is Heidi Diedrich, the

executive director of Arts works

projects for Human Rights a post she

assumed in July 2016 after working in

human rights in the Middle East for

nearly five years she brings a diverse

background in international development

and photography, complementing more than

two decades of leadership experience and

nonprofit communications. From 2011 to

2016 Diedrich was based in Iraq and

served in leadership roles with

international and nongovernmental

organizations focused on international

development, emergency humanitarian

response, and advocacy. Diedrich was also

director of Metrography, the first Iraqi

photo agency where she led efforts to

operationalize the agency and

established a non-profit training center

focused on cultivating an independent

Iraqi media, and ethical human rights

reporting in the Middle East. Diedrich

has held various other leadership roles

with U.S. nonprofit and for-profit

organizations, since beginning her

professional career as a photojournalist.

She holds a bachelor of science degree

from Southern Illinois University in

Carbondale, where she studied photography,

journalism, and communications. Please

welcome her.

Thank you very much.

Let's see, it's really wonderful to be

here and share the story of artworks

projects for Human Rights which is based

here in Chicago but it's an

international nonprofit organization. I

am particularly pleased to be here

because I come from a family of

educators. My mother was an art teacher

in public school for 30 years, and my

sister and her husband are both

elementary school principals in illinois.

And so you have both an advocate and an

admirer of all the work that you do. I

know that I could not do it. So thank you

very much for the work that you do. I

really am also excited to introduce

artworks projects

to you as a overarching organization

that uses art and design to address

human rights abuses globally.

We are international in scope, but have a

really strong footprint in Chicago and a

commitment to the city of Chicago. We do

a lot of programming both at our studio

in River North where we have a art

gallery plus studio space for holding

community conversations, but we also do a

lot of outreach with the Chicago

Public Schools. The Chicago Public

Libraries and then events around the

city.

This is an image that I wanted to show

you because it really goes back to when

artworks began. We are entering, we

entered our... I forget it's November. We

entered our 10th anniversary season this

fall after starting in 2006 with a

concept that we would use a documentary

photography and documentary film in

large projections in prominent public

spaces around the world to show people

what human rights abuses are

occurring. Artworks projects identifies

human rights issues that often are not

getting a lot of attention. They might

not receive much media attention, or if

they do it's sort of a flash in the pan

and the world moves on. It also covers

issues that often lack the political

will to address those issues both

internationally as well as in nations

around the world. This was one of our

first exhibits, was shown in Paris.

We've shown our work in all

six continents

still thinking about how to

do something on the seventh, but in many

cities and countries around the world.

Before I go further I thought that I

could show you a video of our

organization and our 10th anniversary

that will give you a bit of a snapshot

of the work we do and where we've

shown our work.

We're very excited to be entering our

10th anniversary season doing tremendous

work both in the United States as well

as internationally to help educate

people and raise awareness about the

issues, that affect us all

As a refugee really touching my heart

when I read the story and also seen the

picture. I really feel appreciated that

they are being treated like normal human

beings.

Our building is full of future voters,

future leaders, future decision-makers

and any kind of access we can give them

to know their global neighbors, I think

is always a good thing and images are

great for them.

The students have been able to see how

artists can use the knowledge of the

visual arts, and convey a message. I want

the students to continue to have these

conversations, and to see images, and to get

them thinking about how art can have a

power.

It truly falls upon us as individuals

and as global citizens to demand change

so that we can put an end to human

rights abuses around the world. And so

well it's a little promotional in nature

I thought that I could show you this

video in part to show you that while

we're a global organization, we are

tremendous resource here in Chicago and

we truly are committed to continuing the

work that we're doing in Chicago both

covering human rights, sorry human rights

abuses as well as partnering with

educators and schools and youth groups

in the summer to bring youth into

human rights advocacy through art and

design. In this video we had two Chicago

public school teachers talking about

Workshop to Change The World, which I

will speak about in a moment because

that's our program that is in chicago

public schools.But I wanted to just

really first talk about why we're using

design in the arts to advocate for human

rights, we really believe that it's

important to know statistics and how

many people are displaced in the world,

and know about issues from a more

academic perspective, but we also truly

believe that we have to put a face on

those who are survivors and victims of

human rights abuses. We really believe

that through the arts and we use

primarily documentary film and

photography that we can connect people

to a common purpose and that it

reinforces a shared sense of humanity. We

also believe it connects people to

issues that the otherwise would be

disconnected from. So oftentimes if

you're not on fully aware of or have

some kind of a personal connection to a

human rights issue, you might feel that

it's just happening

over there. When indeed many human rights

abuses are happening right here in our

own backyard.

As the introduction stated, I just

returned from doing human rights work in

Iraq for five years, and one of the

issues i worked on in Iraq was torture.

And we were anti-torture obviously but

we were working on helping Iraq fulfill

their obligation under the UN

Convention Against Torture which they

signed. At the same time that I was

working on that project and preparing a

report for release to the government of

Iraq and the Kurdistan Region

government, the very next day, the

day before I presented the report the

Senate committee report in the United

States came out and torture. And so it

really brought home to me two things, one

was that I was doing really important

work in the Middle East ,but there was a

lot of important work to do at home. And

the second was that I would try to

pursue work with an organization that

tells the story of human rights issues

from a perspective that's a little more

personal and that allows me to continue

this work in bridging human rights

issues in the United States to those in

other parts of the world because at the

end of the day human rights truly are a

global issue. They are borderless. And

that if we can approach it from a

perspective of the global citizen and

the responsibility we have, we can

then hopefully make some progress. And

from our perspective engaging youth in

this is critical because human rights as

a concept is a fairly new point

of discussion in this world only several

decades old

in terms of the legal ramifications

related to human rights abuses in

relation to it being a formal discipline.

And so there are a lot of us

I'm not that old but I'm not that young

there are a lot of us doing this work

and making progress, but we really

believe that it's the next generation of

youth who are are said to have more of a

foundation and social justice and

understanding human rights issues that

they can take the work that we've done

and really make some positive change.

We also believe that our approach

humanizes issues and provides an

accessible platform for educating people

about human rights. We also believe that

the way that we're approaching it with

you saw 270 partners in the last 10

years. With partners around the world

that we're really making it possible to

be educated and understand about an issue

and then inspire people to action. And

that action can be volunteering, it can be

changing careers which I did to go into

human rights work. It can be writing a

senator or a representative. It can be

marching in the streets.

Our goal is to put that information out

there, to help people understand through

images and through film the stories of

people who both are victims of human

rights abuses as well as those who work

to protect them, and then make a decision

on if and how you want to be engaged and

and be active. Most importantly perhaps

is that through using documentary film

and documentary photography, we're able to

give a voice to those who otherwise

might not be heard in particular because

we're covering human rights issues that

are often not covered.

We also are working closely with those

who work to protect survivors of human

rights abuses around the world, to tell

the story of the complexities of

addressing human rights. There are

many different layers of how you go

about supporting victims of human rights

abuses from legal to mental health

services to providing safe passage

for the the individual who's the victim

of the human rights to get to safety and

then of course it it really hopefully

reinforces that human rights are global

borderless and that we all as global

citizens on have a responsibility but

also have a role in how governments

and how communities address human rights

abuses. One thing I wanted to

mention was that our model even in the

United States even though we're a

chicago-based organization our model is

the same around the world in terms of

how we approach a project and we teach

this also through our workshop to change

the world to use so that they can

understand how to ensure that a

perspective on an issue should be

inclusive, and that we all come to issues

with various points of view, and so it's

important to engage and include people

from the communities that you are

addressing human rights issues about so

what we do is we identify human rights

issue that we would like to pursue as a

project.We connect with local

organizations that are working on those

issues, and then we identify local

artists local photographers and

filmmakers. So we did that here in the

United States. We worked with the u.s.

photographer on this project "Transitions,"

and then we worked with a panel of

experts on transitional justice which is

what this exhibit is about. This exhibit

is actually about transitional justice

in four countries. In Columbia, Bosnia,

The Democratic Republic of Congo, and the

United States .Moving forward, will

continue to approach it from a global

perspective, including the United States

when we can, again reinforcing that human

rights issues aren't just happening

another

parts of the world but they are also

happening here in the United States. I

thought again i think watching a video

about how this this exhibit came about

would do it much more justice than me up

here as a talking head so let me...

"Transitions," is an exhibition and it's

also a process. We've come together foru

different countries to discuss our

post-conflict transitional justice

journey.

Some of us are a hundred and fifty years

into the transitional justice process,

and some of us are really trying to get

to a post-conflict scenario.

Having this workshop has open our minds

to different countries who have gone

either to a tradition or has gone to a

peaceful process hearing the experiences

from Bosnia from Congo and the U.S. We

there are some underlying themes that

that overlap with us and is in South

America are so close to an American

audience it sometimes people forget the

things that we've gone through. We are a part of

this international team we're really

proud of it. This has been very

important experience for us, because it's

not unusual to have like this kind of

opportunities to share stories about

conflict. It will be a window local people

talking about himself at the same time,

an occasion to bring all these

different experience around the world

put it together and exchange the best

practice from each country. So i think

it's a wonderful idea or asset you're

like Africa there's a particular benefit

in bringing our work into international

context were very interested in sharing

with global audiences the realities that

are taking place in Congo and creating

invitations and possibilities for people

who are concerned about this to get

involved in ways that are positive that

are empowering that have to do with

mutual exchange.

I had the opportunity to take apart in

telling the story of Bosnia's transition

after this recent genocide. We wanted to

take an approach, trying to show the

process that is still ongoing. So this

was a big experience for me to meet

people from other countries to hear

their problems in the country how they

try to solve it. I can use their

experience in my storytelling.

One of the things that we've learned

through this workshop in Chicago, you can

build solidarity by opening up this

exchange and making it an international

topic.

It allows for people to freely engage

perhaps with less intimidation and a bit

more interesting curiosity. A lot of the

work that I've provided focuses on race

relations in America, I think it's really

important to understand historically why

we are in the same situation that we

were in years ago and understand that

journey we've had when we understand how

systemic oppression has affected

different groups, that's when we realized

what needs to be done now so I want

people walking away from this with the

desire to work together. That's when

we'll really see changes. We would like

people to come to the exhibition or

access it online

and to feel that there are tools out

there for justice. And hopefully this all

comes together to give this very dynamic

commission of what transitional justice

is and why it matters to the individuals

that live in a society.

So the reason I wanted you to have a

sort of a sense of our approach in terms

of how we put together projects, but

these are also a couple of images from

the actual exhibit. The approach that we

take in pulling together a project

and collaborating with people to

identify a human rights issue and then

how we're going to as a team illustrate

if you will, is also the model that we

use in our in outreach with youth

engagement in the Chicago Public Schools.

This is a from Bosnia, the International

Committee on missing persons, I'm not

sure if you've heard of it. It's related

to enforced disappearances which is when

people disappear at the hands of a

government or government at the hands of

the government or a government actor. And

so although the conflict ended years ago

The results of that war continued to

live on. This is a displaced family in

Colombia, as we all know the Columbia

peace process, peace agreement was not

approved and so this family has been

displaced because of the militia

fighting. This is in the Democratic

Republic of Congo, it's a young woman who

now has access to education. The

government in 2010, passed a law that

primary education would be free, and so

it opened up opportunity for millions of

students. And this is a tobacco

farmer in North Carolina and the United

States. In the United States we looked

at property and land rights as part of

the transitional justice

issue and transitional justice and

basically layman's terms is when a

government tries to redress or make

right past human rights abuses and so it

can be through legislative changes it

can be through reparations, it can be

through a myriad of ways including

acknowledging that those human rights of

his abuses happened. That actually is one

of the first steps toward moving

forward and providing transitional

justice is government's actually

admitting and being accountable to the

past human rights abuses that they've

been engaged in. Which then, now leads me

to the youth engagement part of what we

do. I wanted to give you the framing of

the organization again, to understand

that our approaches collaborative,

that a lot of work and workshopping goes

into how we identify issues under an

umbrella human rights topics such as

transitional justice and how we bring in

educators, artists, community activists,

government actors, to look at the issue

from a variety of angles to ensure that

the way that we are approaching it as

best as possible, honors the victims

of those human rights abuses, honors the

government or I'm sorry the country in

which those abuses occurred. At this

sorry you can't see it very well, but

one thing that we will be doing is

mentioned in my introduction I've just

assumed responsibility for this

organization in July, after the founder

Leslie time has stepped down after 10

years. She's still on our board of

directors but I'm shepherding in a new

era for the organization, one that will

continue the work in Chicago while

continuing to build our footprint internationally.

In Iraq, I did a lot of work

with youth in a part in particular with

adolescents who is somewhat of a

forgotten population there. There is a

lot of programming around children up

to about the age of 10 or 11, or there

was pre Isis a lot of the funding that's

available now is going directly to

addressing the issue of Isis in in Iraq

and emergency humanitarian response, but

almost fifty percent of the population

of Iraq is under the age of 24 years old.

And so youth is something that I'm

incredibly passionate about and care

deeply about four reasons I've already

stated including the fact that I think

they really offer us the best hope for

long-term change. They can influence and

I know I'm preaching to the choir

here, but they can influence and make

change. And we really do need to engage

them and bring them into a discussion

about social justice and human rights. I

really think it's quite important that

we are very thoughtful and deliberate

about how we engage youth, but that we do

bring them into the discussion because

they have opinions and they have ideas

and they have thoughts about what they

want to happen in their communities and

in the world, and in Chicago and in the

United States. At the same time we

really have to be thoughtful about how

we work with them in this age of

everybody being a documentarian,

everybody having a smartphone, everybody

being able to capture a moment and share

it broadly without really necessarily

thinking about how that that might

impact both the person that's the

subject of the video or photo or impact

on the issue more broadly. Ao through our

our work with youth we teach them to tap

into their own creative talents to

illustrate ways in which they can talk

about issues, but we also reinforced to

them that with that comes great

responsibility.

And so I don't have to tell you all,

or most people that technology has

changed the way people get their

information and share their information,

and are our goal is to help youth and

all people but youth in particular

through our workshop to change the world,

understand how they can do that in a

thoughtful in a responsible way. We also

really believe that our model is

powerful and showing that images and

technology can be used in a thoughtful

way to shape human rights dialogue. UNHCR

is shifting actually a little bit

their strategy away from just reporting

numbers and images of people washing up

on the shores of Greece and other parts

of Europe and fleeing the war in

Syria and in other parts of the world

to trying to do more with illustrating

and showing the actual human face of

the displacement that's happening

globally right now. So we really do

believe that we can use images and then

technology because we can disperse the

information globally to shape human

rights dialogue and hopefully help

educate people to understand a different

side of the story.

We also realize that we have to really

balance the sense of entitlement to

photograph everything with the ethical

responsibility of sharing it and so

we've seen in particular in the last

couple of years in the United States

examples of this where violence against

african-americans has been caught on

tape, police brutality and then an

uprising. And so being conscious of

where information information that we

gather is shared and how it's used or

misused.

And really intersecting between arts and

design and human rights so that youth

can walk away with concrete ways of

understanding how it can be a powerful

medium for them to be able to share

their perspective. As I mentioned, we are

in an image driven world, and where, and I

think that you know I was thinking about

this top that the title which a

millennial gave me in my office. I

was thinking about the title and

actually when we think about issues that

we really care about and issues that

either moved us to anger or tears or

joy or maybe they made us laugh. We

often do think of it in an image ,so if

you think about something in the

history of time that's really affected

you

we often think about it in a still image

first, and so theoretically I think we've

always been visual people that think

about life and think about experiences

through images. The difference now is

that were able to share it in a in a

flash, and not really even oftentimes

think about it we take the picture we

share it and then do we stop and think

oh should I have shared that? In

particular with youth, 71% of

teams according to Pew, research

are on more than one social networking

site and middle and upper-income teens

are leaning toward an Instagram and

Snapchot. Snapshot is as you know a

snapshot of them information like that.

So how can we get them to use this

technology to in a way that's thoughtful

and respectful when talking about issues

such as human rights? We also know

that they're using social media in ways

that possibly could have been imagined

years ago another study from Pew found

that people are really feeling that

social media helps them get involved

with issues they care about

out and that it brings new voices to the

political conversation.

This was a study that was done this

summer, specifically related to on the

current presidential election but really

we've seen and this is not earth

shattering, but we've really seen a

seismic shift and how people are getting

their information. There's so much

information out there how do we make

sure that that information is ethical

or is accurate and being

ethically presented and so with us

while we're an arts organization that

advocates for human rights through

photography and documentary film, we take

very seriously the issue of ethics and

the issue of human rights related to

reporting on Human Rights so what is the

right of the the victim if

you will, or the right of the survivor of

that human rights abuse, and how are we

portraying those issues. These are

conversations that we have

with youth when we do our programming

workshop to change the world is one

next-gen committee is another an

emerging lens. Workshop to change the

world is a really wonderful program that

we started six years ago and again it's

in the Chicago Public Schools. When the

program was started we tried to forge a

partnership with the administration of

CPS, but have today been

unsuccessful in doing so, and so what

we've done now is just partner with not

just now what we've done is partner with

individual chicago public schools often

organically through contacts that we

have or through friends who have

children in different schools, this is

my plea that if you're in the Chicago

Public Schools and would like to bring

our programming to your school we would

love to. And it is a really cool, powerful,

remarkable, amazing program I am as I

said passionate about youth

and I'm passionate about photography and

I'm passionate about human rights so

this is my one of my favorite projects

we've done on the programming for more

than 600 schools in six years.

i'm currently working on trying to get

the product the program itself a pool of

funding so that we have sustainability

it costs you nothing, all of our

programs are actually free with artworks

projects that's part of our

mission and part of our commitment to

bringing human rights issues to the

masses if you will.

We are able to do programming with

students from third grade to 12th grade.

And I have some pictures here but i will

tell you a little bit about can you see

those okay hopefully, workshop to change

the world brings into the classroom for

a day or on a series of workshops split

up over a couple hours or however the

school and the teacher wants to do it we

are flexible, we design a program that

will work in that classroom we bring

artists into the school with us we often

start with a foundational issue that art

works projects has covered in the past,

and talk about art and the power of the

visual arts and visual media in

addressing human rights issues or social

justice issues we also talked about what

is social justice. We make sure the

issues are benign we don't bring in a

lot of the other some issues that might

be a little upsetting to a younger

population, but we also don't sugarcoat

some of the issues so it's important we

think to bring into the dialogue what

kind of issues are occurring both in

Chicago and around the world.

We then have the students break up into

small groups, or if they want to work

individually again it's driven by

the model that the educators want and

that the students will respond to and they then

work to identify an issue in their

neighborhood or community that they

would like to illustrate or

share their perspective and their

opinion through art. Sorry.

And then we workshop. And they go about

it

developing a project you can see

some of the students I think on that you

can see a mentor up here they could be

it could be a painting it could be a

sketch it could be a screenplay for a

film it could be poetry it could be a

musical piece it could be photography

it can really be whatever that student

wants, or the group of student wants

to illustrate the issue.

Not surprisingly especially over the

last few years gun violence has been a

big one.

I'm trying to think, I think I yeah, gun

violence has been a big issue in Chicago

the the point of the workshop is to have

the students identify what they want to

talk about and share their perspective

on and they develop a project around

that. We then, you can see up here, we

usually exhibit the work either up

in the school at a minimum, but also at

our studio at 625 North Kingsbury Street

in Chicago so we want to be able to show

the students that they can use their

talents and interests in a myriad of

artistic disciplines to talk about

issues that they otherwise might not

feel comfortable bringing up or that

they might be thinking about but haven't

really found a way to just talk about.

And then we have the artists work with

them and mentor them about how you can

go about addressing human rights

issues social justice issues through art

and then we exhibit it. So I think it's a

pretty cool program we've had wonderful

responses you saw in the

first video the two public school

teachers who have done the program many

times. Another project that we have

and I am almost done I promise, but

another project that we have is next-gen

and so this might be the age might be a

little older than your the folks you

work with, but it is a youth engagement

strategy for us. 35 is not youth

thirties is not youth but it is a strategy

that we use to bring younger people into

the discussion of human rights

advocacy and the work that we do. We did

a survey with people in this age around

this age range in chicago and the

findings told us that this age group

wants to be involved, but they don't have

money to donate and they're tired of

being asked to donate money and they

want to find another way to be

meaningfully engaged that isn't just

coming to stuff envelopes or folders for

an event or work a registration table

but how can they actually have a say in

what kinds of issues are introduced in

the public discourse. And so we started

the next-gen committee so

we actually tap into them and in many

ways. One is to do events to bring in a

younger group of people into our

organization into our events into the

kind of work that we do. Another is to

tell us or counsel us, give input, give

perspective on how we can continue to

grow our youth engagement strategy for

younger people building on workshop to

change the world, but looking at other

program ideas and then they also give us

project concepts and so we are seeking

feedback from this next-gen committee

about issues that are affecting their

generation or their age group both in

the United States and globally, and how

we might plan, it takes about 18

months obviously to plan a project but

how we might put those projects into the

pipeline so that we can make sure that

we're we're gaining perspective from a

younger population.

And then finally emerging lens. Emerging

lens is also one project that is very

near and dear to my heart, it is a photo

a juried photo competition for emerging

photojournalists age 27 and under. We've

done two emerging lens competitions and

we will be launching hopefully our third.

I'm seeking funding for that to, but

hopefully launching our third in

December. I had a video but i think i'm

going to skip that because the sound

is pretty bad on this emerging lens

recipient winner, Emanuel he did a

documentary store photo story on the 43

disappeared students from the teacher

college in Mexico. We just closed this

exhibit this summer, but we're hoping

to, I'm hoping to tour it, including he's

very very brave he would like to tour it in

Mexico. I think we're negotiating that

because of his security but Emmanuel

lives in Guillero State which is where the

teachers college is. He did a remarkable

photo essay that looked at the families

of the disappeared. The 43 students have

still have not been found there was an

investigation by the inter-american

council they were asked to leave Mexico

because they found that it looked as

if the police and possibly the Mayor was

involved in the disappearance.

The UN has not investigated it because

the UN has to be invited into the

country to do the investigation. So for

Emanuel who was one of dozens of

applicants for the emerging lens

competition in 2015,

he felt that this story was critical to

keep putting pressure on the government

to tell the story of the victims through

the family's lens

and so he looked at the entire exhibit

is in black and white he looked at the

the altars trying to find a way to

illustrate victims without being so

obvious such as taking a picture of a

portrait. This is also a

massive altar of all the victims that

disappeared, and then he is going around

the country and photographing the

protests as well so this is an example

that we also would share with our

students when we're working with them to

talk to them about the different ways you

can cover an issue that maybe has

received a lot of coverage in the media

or cover an issue from a different

perspective such as the family story

rather than just talking about the

victim.

Emmanuel continues to do this work in

Mexico taking a great risk but really

was able to get a lot of mentoring from

a couple of professional photographers

that we work with including a photo

editor of a national publication in

the United States as well as us so they

apply for the competition.

The winner then has mentoring from us

to choose a topic that they want to

cover, and then we mentor them throughout

the entire process and then it

culminates an exhibit in June and so we

will launch this in December and the age

cap is 27, but we're looking for

photographers younger than 27 as well

and so you can find more information out

about that if you know anybody that

would want to be in this competition on

our website. And finally we do

community engagement

625 at 625 is a community conversation at

our 625 studio. This fall it's all around

transitional

justice. In the spring it will

be around sanctuary sustenance which is

the story the refugee journey story from

home to displacement to resettlement. We

have a program with the Chicago Public

Libraries for the first time this year

again focused on transitional justice in

the fall and refugees in the summer or

in the spring and then we do a myriad of

community events throughout the year. And

so I wanted to end just with this quote

from Eleanor Roosevelt because I think

it really captures what we're trying to

do in terms of taking global human

rights issues and localizing them. And I

know you can all read it but i'll read

it as well. Where after all do universal

human rights begin in a small place

close to home so close and so small that

they cannot be seen on any maps of the

world yet they are the world of the

individual person; the neighborhood he

lives in; the school or college he

attends; the factory the farm or office

where he works. And so through our work

what we're trying to do is really embody

that quote. wWe identify the issues that

others often are overlooking including

governments and international actors.

And we try to bring it to the community

level to get the community engaged in

understanding human rights issues and

then being advocates to try to hold

government accountable to stop those

abuses and we really

want to engage more youth. We

really want I really would love to be in

every Chicago Public School. It's going

to be a model that we are intending to

take to Europe next year and then

through the Middle East and Asia and

Africa in 2018 and so thank you for

indulging me. I hope that you can see

this is a great resource in Chicago

and we would be really willing able of

happy to work with all of you.

We also accept student groups coming

into our studio we have a beautiful work

classroom space

so we can come to you here you can come

to us so thank you very much.

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We are the Future: Teaching Youth about Peace and Human Rights in Colombia and Beyond - Duration: 34:49.

I'm going to introduce our next speaker

while everybody is getting their coffee

and coming back to their seats.

Our next speaker is Gabriel Velez a PhD

student in Comparative Human

Development here at the University of

Chicago.

His research focuses on adolescent

development and the formation of ideas

about citizenship human rights and peace

amid conflict and post-conflict contexts.

He's interested in supporting

understandings of how diverse group of

youth process and respond to their

experiences as members of society as

they begin to think of themselves as

citizens and community members. He

developed his interest while teaching

high school for six years in Harlem

Tacna Peru

and Bogotá Colombia. He graduated

from Harvard University in 2007 with a

degree in history and literature, welcome Gabriel.

Alright good afternoon everyone

I want to thank you all for being here

for waiting out a longer day I see we

have at least 1 Cubs fan in the audience

I'm sure they're couple others so also

choosing the conference over the parade

was tough I know you have but with a

modern technology and you know access to

videos you can pretty much probably live

it later tonight in the comfort of your

home rather than with millions of people

out on the street so I think in the end

may be a good choice.

Alright so to begin I got a great

introduction there but i wanted to talk

a little bit more about myself now as

mentioned I was a teacher before I

entered my current ph.d program and I

taught in Harlem for a year and a half

and then I taught in Peru as a volunteer

for two years and then I was in Bogota

Colombia for three and after all this time as a

teacher I had some ideas that I really

wanted to kind of explore and develop

more. I as Heidi really think that you

youth are an incredible age group to work

with particularly adolescence I think

how they're coming to understand their

country their role in it themselves as

citizens human rights are fascinating

areas in areas that really have a huge

impact on what countries look like in

the future and so with that in mind they

came into my PhD program where I focus

on that. I focus on pretty much figuring

out what you thinking

and talking to them because often their

voice is left out even when people know

that they're important in these programs

and practices and ideas they don't

actually go and talk to youth and

understand what's kind of going on in

their heads. So it started I wanted to

also present some of the objectives and

I'm hoping to kind of give here today

you know you all come from classroom

settings that you know much better than

I do you all here to kind of gain some

resources and ideas. So first I wanted to

talk a little bit not about my own work

but about the Colombian context because

I think for a couple reasons it's a very

interesting context I'm hoping to kind

of explain a little bit about that.

Then I wanted to provide you with some

concrete examples of how peace in

particular but also human rights are

being taught in Colombia and that's kind

of the the intersection of my work and

then I wanted to kind of end with a

little bit of time to give you a chance

to talk amongst yourselves and also

maybe share and start thinking about

concrete ideas that you can maybe take

away or things that could be adapted to

your classrooms because again all of you

know those much better than we do and

we're here to provide the resources but

I wanted to give you some space before

you go home and relax and enjoy your

weekend to maybe come away with some

concrete takeaways.

So as I mentioned I wanted to start with

talking about Colombia and as a kind of

a disclaimer I am half Colombian my

father was born in Colombia but I grew

up here in the States. I was born here, I

speak Spanish still with an accent to

this day because my parents never spoke

to me, so it's always been a place that's

fascinated me and grabbed my attention

and interest. But it also I think is

fascinating for other reasons I mean

it's a country of 47 million people so

it's a little less than a sixth of the

population of the United States. It's at

the northern tip of South America there

so you know, it borders the Pacific, it also

borders the Caribbean it has a lot of

economic connections to the United States

but it also has this long history of

conflict. This goes back hundreds

of years it's something that is really

marked the society and marked its

history and the most recent conflict

began in the 1950s and 60s

and it really was set off by a

presidential candidate being murdered

which led to riots in the streets, led to

a period that was called the violence

and out of that

sort of emerged some revolutionary

groups that essentially took up arms and

took to the hills and fought the

government because they didn't feel that

there was space in the government to

really express their political ideas, a

lot of them were very young at the time

too and this has led to over five decades

of warfare.

Now that's kind of the beginning of it

but it is also emerged into really

complex web that involves drugs, it involves

gangs, it involves anti-communist

paramilitaries, illegal mining just an

incredible array of factors in and

complications and it's a real serious

issue that Colombian society has tried

to deal with. They've had three or four

peace processes to try and end these

conflicts and even today they are in the

middle of another one which was briefly

mentioned earlier and I'll get to in a

little second to provide some

more detail. But first to give you some

more idea of this kind of history over

these five decades of internal warfare

they've been 220,000 people killed and

this is out of a kind of an official

report that was done. There have been over

six million displaced so that's about 1-in-8

Colombians have been displaced from

where they lived or their land because

of the violence in some way and then

another 27,000 kidnapped and this

kidnapping is both urban and rural and

just about 15 years ago it was something

that really plagued the society deeply.

Now it's starting off with all that

pessimism in the past and in the history

there's a real moment of optimism that's

been going on in the last couple years

in Colombia and this has to do with this

peace treaty. So some of you may have

seen it come up in the last couple

months in the news especially in the New York Times often

I feel like there's

someone at the New York Times who

really values this and I appreciate that

because they run a number of articles on

it. But basically the government over the

last four years sat down with one of the

revolutionary groups, one of these

Marxist, kind of communist, groups that's

out there. An armed group that's in

the hills essentially fighting the

government and for 4 years they've worked

out peace accords and you know this has been

a difficult process. During these four

years people have been killed on both

sides, during these four years there has been a

lot of push back and forth, there have been a

lot of touchy issues but they finally

this past summer agreed to

some peace accords and they sat down and

they sign them and there were 297 pages

long so they are quite atone

and even though they were agreed to and

signed by both sides the President

decided that they would have to be a

referendum, and he really pushed this from

the beginning he decided the people

would vote on this, it would be up to the

people. Now it's kind of an interesting

side point there was talk about whether

this meant people above 18 or whether

this meant people above 14 and in the

end it ended up being people above 18

which I think was a very interesting

choice because unlike an election where

a president or congressman will cycle

through every 4 or 6 years

these are peace accords that essentially

are setting the map for the country

indefinitely into the future so a

fifteen-year-old will be you know 20, 30

when a lot of these things are finally

taking place and finally leading

hopefully leading to really positive

outcomes. But anyway so on a side here

is a photo of the President with the

head of this group which is called

the FARC which in English translates

the Armed Revolutionary Forces of

Colombia. Here is a picture of one of the

plazas in Bogota on the day that they

sign those accords. There's a lot of a

lot of smiles as you can see a lot of

positive feeling now as its kind of been

mentioned before in the end the

Colombian people voted no. In the map you

can see that it was it was sort of very

divided so the the orange part there are

the regions of the country where they

voted no and the green part are the

regions where they voted yes, sort of the

the majority of people did. That little

green sliver in the middle is where

Bogota is so that's where the capital

is. So that voted very differently than

the rest of the center but you can see

it was a very divisive kind of issue and

then I love this and I kept in Spanish

and pulled it right out of this new

source because on top you have the yes

vote on the bottom you have the no.

The no won with 50.21 per cent so it came down to

about 50,000 votes in an election where

about 13 million voted. So it

is an incredibly small difference now

the other thing you'll notice is how

small both of these bars are in total

about 13 per cent of the population

voted, sorry 13 percent

of the electorate. So 13 percent of

the people who could vote voted and this

is an issue, this is the pecae accord again

it's ending five decades of warfare it's

been all in the news and there many

reasons for that and I don't want to go

into that I could give you probably a

40-minute talk on that would be happy to

talk more about it after for anyone who is

curious. But it just gives you a sense

I think of the the context now that's

going on in Colombia. So during this I

was actually there this past summer and

my work that I was doing I was going out

interviewing youth in the capital and I

was asking them what they think about peace,

how they're learning about peace,

what human rights means to them and

trying to get a sense of how they were

processing what was going on, all of this,

for themselves as individuals. And so to

get into this I kind of want to take a

step back and explain two of the schools

that I was working in and give you a little

bit of sense of these two schools

because there has been a particular

focus on youth as part of this peace

process but there are a lot of really

interesting challenges that are both

very particular to Colombia but I think

also will what kind of make a lot of

connections to our own country here in

the United States. So to start this is

one of the schools it's called

Colegio Amendra and it's a school in the north of

Bogota, it's a private elite school.

Its students come from parents who are big

business owners, some of them work in

high levels of the government and these

students in many ways of a very

sheltered life. Because of the history of

violence in Colombia they'll often leave

home and they will go in a school bus to

school which is this beautiful gated

campus, then they will be taken in the

school bus to their private club there

they might be picked up by a car with a

personal driver which sometimes may even

be an armored car and then shuttled back home.

So they live lives that are

not they're not unaware of the conflict,

the school teaches about peace, it

teaches about Colombian history

some of them have relatives who have had

land that's been taken from them or have been

kidnapped but they do live in in kind of

this relative isolation and relative

protection from a lot of the conflict

that's going on and then also a lot of

the violence that happens in cities

that's tied to drugs and gangs.

The second school is Colegio Gaitan and this

is all the way in the south of Bogota

and in this school these students they

come from often from other regions of

the country and their families have had

to move to bogota, they've had to

essentially create their homes for

themselves, they've created new areas of

the city and then slowly after a few

years the government will come in and

give them electricity and then slowly

after a few years ago put in running

water and then slowly after a few years

they will put in a paved road and this is a

few pictures of what that kind of looks

like that neighborhood in that area.

And then their parents often will really be

scraping by selling 15 cent meat

empanadas on the street or possibly

roving the streets at night going

through garbage and recycling for

valuable materials that they can then

resell. And as I mentioned before I think

in many ways this is reflective of

Colombia but also reflective of a lot of

issues in in the world at large.

So here the star in the bottom left is

Colegio Gaitan and on the upper right is

Colegio Almendra and these two schools are

in the same city, they are in the same

country, they're all Colombians but these

are really entirely different worlds.

You know we all live here in Chicago and I

often make these connections as well but

it but it is something that's very

particular to Colombia too. It has a very

strong history of being divided by class,

being divided by geography and I think

often when we talk about peace education

and human rights education especially in

context like this we're not as attentive

to the diversity than of these actual

students. So the challenge in Colombia is

if we're going to teach about peace

we're going to try and lay the

groundwork with these youth for a better

future

how are we going to connect with these

youth but also with these youth

and all of those who are in between and

have wildly different experiences also.

That is I think doubly important because

there are ideas that are out there in

society that youth draw from right so

when we don't teach about education

sorry peace and human rights

I think youth are like sponges

all of you who work with you know children

from very young ages to 18 they pick up

things that are there in society and in

Colombian society this is a history

that's marked by drugs

and violence and these youth are

very much aware of it. When you talk to

them whether or not they've ever met

someone whose from the United States

or from another country they'll say we

Colombians are known for Pablo Escobar

or we're known for being drug addicts

and that's something that they're marked

by and they feel that and they're

responding to that each in their own

kind of individual ways but I think it's

important that education provide a space

to help them respond to that and to

change that narrative. And one of the

fascinating things about Colombia is

that there's been a movement to start

doing that, there has been a real intentional

effort and so the government in 2015

signed into law a peace education law

and essentially what this did was it

mandated that in all schools and

universities in colombia they teach

about peace.

I think that's a great first step it's

something that the country really needs

and it has sparked a lot of conversation

and a lot of really interesting things

around

how do we teach about peace, how do we

teach about history, how do we teach

about human rights. Now to give you kind

of a general overview of the law

it involves 12 themes and each school is

supposed to select two and then be able

to show to the government somehow

how they're kind of hitting those two themes

in their curriculum. These themes include

justice and human rights, historic memory,

sustainable use of natural resources and

then kind of a list that goes on and on

and on and when you see the whole list

there and I'm not going to go through

everyone but you can see it's an

extensive list right I mean if I

handed you these 12 things and said

teach about these 12

I mean you could pick something you can

pick two things that are radically

different and you could be teaching

about them and you could be in one

school and then you could be in the other

and this kind of fulfillment of

the peace education law could look

nothing like each other and in fact this

has kind of been the case with

these sort of 12 themes and with this

law it's sort of led to both a lot of

challenges and a lot of opportunities in

the Colombian context. So here I kind

of lay out some of these and I think

they're really interesting. The first

challenge here is that clumsy

historically as a decentralized school

system

so unlike we have

here in the United States, Colombia will

put into education or sort of into

law certain things about education and

it will be entirely up to the schools

how they actually implement that. There Is

no sort of natural curriculum there's

some national test that they have to

take but there's very little kind of

direct involvement at a broader level

and what these schools are doing. So what

that allows for it does create the

opportunity though of there being real

space for teachers and educators in in

their schools to be creative and to

develop things that are locally relevant.

The second challenge is like I mentioned

there 12 themes there and they're very

expensive so it's really wide ranging

and that can leave you a little lost as an

educator it also allows for the

development of things that are really

transversal so you can be doing

something in a school that's touching on

mathematics that's involving something

in gym class that really goes kind of

across-the-board. Next this being a law

and being tied to the president

mentioned before it's very political too

and that does create some problems

because the issue of this peace process

is very divisive in colombian society

and so there's some ways that it creates

hurdles just because of who it's

attached to and who is pushing it in

the political sphere. On the other hand I

think that that's in some ways an

opportunity because then it's very much

tied to things that are important in

salient in the country right now.

Lastly as I mentioned before there's this

diversity of experiences with conflict

so if you're going to teach about memory

you're gonna have to teach about it in

ways that are going to be very attentive

to who your students are. If your students

lost parents because the government in

some attack killed them

that's going to be something very

different than if you're teaching

students who have had no direct

experience or have never kind of had

family members touched by the conflict.

So lastly i think this kind of leads to

this grand challenge of how to implement it.

The government said here is a peace law

you got to do it here 12 themes go and

it's in some ways an opportunity because

what it's done is there's so many

educators the so many organizations

there's so many people in Colombia who

are working on peace education and human

rights education because it's almost

like kind of a laboratory where you have

thousands of schools who

need to do something and a lot of them

don't know what to do and so there is this

real great space and opportunity to

develop it.

So with that in mind I want to kind of

go through four, well there are really three examples

of a couple things that they're doing in

schools and again this is just to kind

of show you some of the ways that these

schools are handling this challenge and

some of them are resources you may be

able to draw from some of them are just

I think kind of interesting ways that this

is working out in Colombia. The first

comes from the Anne Frank House so this

is an international example and they're

drawing on it and really adapting it in

some of these schools in Colombia and

it's something called the

fair play game and in the resources that

are in your folder from my talk I have

listed there that the link and all the

information so you can get it if you

want later, and this game, this activity

really targets the kind of the theme

of prevention of school bullying and

diversity. Here's a snapshot from what it

looks like but it's an online game so

it's an interactive kind of online game

there that youth can go and they can log

onto and basically it's an educational

game where six young football players

are scouted for football academy and so

as players have to make these decisions

and have to kind of interact with these

different players they have to deal with

situations that are related to

discrimination, prejudices, group pressure.

From the the website, from the Anne Frank

House website they say fair play this

game confronts young people with

anti-semitism, homophobia and

discrimination. The players need to find

a way to deal with the discrimination by

others as well as to come to terms with

their own prejudices. They choose one of

three roles perpetrator, bystander or

helper and so the idea is they kind of

go through this process like you would

in any sort of almost sports video game

making your decisions who you gonna pick

who's going to be the captain and then

there's an element at the end that's

reflective and so they're asked to kind

of think about what role did you take?

What was the effect of your

contributions?

How would you handle it differently if

you could? I think this is a great

resource in some ways because first of

all soccer is one of those things in

South American and particularly in Colombia

really draws in kids like that

almost across the board you know

it's it's their favorite national sport

it's something that so many people play

and so they really connect with that

it's also online and you know through

technology that youth are really in

touch within and love using so anytime

they get to log in and play something

online you know they get excited about

as I am sure many of you have experienced

with the students and then lastly it

kind of models this fair play and

these sort of real-world situations so

without necessarily having to sit down

and talk about something that's directly

going on in the classroom yet you can

first approached it sort of indirectly

through something like this.

Now the second example that I want two

offers from the ministry of education so

even though the Ministry of Education

has this peace education on essentially

tells schools go do what you want to do

they have offered a few kind of lesson

plans here and there to provide schools

with some ideas of what they could do

and so some schools are drawing directly

from these ideas in these lessons.

The nice thing about these and I'm going to

show you one that's here from the ninth

grade a sample lesson plan is that they

offer kind of the the theoretical

background so the teachers are sort of

understanding why they're doing this

activity and then they lay out very

clearly the activity with the resources

like worksheets or whatever that you

would need to be able to do it. So here's

kind of a simple one and it starts with

this kind of like theoretical background

for the teacher and it gives you this

little kind of matrix here we're on the

bottom you have personal interest so how

much you're acting in kind of your

own interests of yourself and that along

this one which is kinda hard-to-read

its how much you're thinking about

relationships with others and the idea

is they've broken up into four quadrants

and these are ways that you could

respond to a situation of conflict or

tension with a classmate or with a

friend or someone in your family and so

if you're acting with kind of low

personal interest but also a low concern

for relationships they label that

evading. You're kind of evading the situation

in a conflict. If you're acting with low

personal interest and high concern for

the relationships that's like giving in.

In the upper right you're compromising so

that would be a high personal interest

but also high awareness of the needs and

wants

of the other person and then if you're

kind of just focused on your own

personal interests that would be

imposing. Now as you see this one little

caveat is I translated from Spanish so

if you have an issue too with some of the

words or your kind of questioning that

it's probably my kind of translation so

you know it's not it's obviously not

perfect and they're not many other ways

you could respond but this kind of lays

out a theoretical framework for the

activity to kind of think through it.

Then the activity in some ways is very

basic it presents a little story that

you would share with your students.

So the story is Zoraida and Milton

have been going out for a few months.

Milton's family is very close and

because of this his parents organized a

party with all of his aunts, uncles and

cousins to celebrate his birthday. In the

middle of the party

Milton is excited and wants Zoraida to

dance with him. She doesn't want to

because she's embarrassed to do it in

front of all of his family. So the

situation of kind of tension or conflict

and one that could come up in

adolescents life. Then you kind of in

groups you have the students answer it

with a response that would be each one

of these four ways. So one would be

giving in that Zoraida somehow gives in

to the wants of Milton. One would be

evading, one would be compromising and

one would be imposing and so this really

works through skills of perspective

taking conflict resolution and as I

mentioned it's kind of a way that

teachers who might feel lost without

peace education law and all those themes

can kind of concretely develop a lesson

that they could use with their students.

The third one is really sort of a group

of a couple different activities and and

honestly this is on this is something

that they use a lot of the schools with

low resources where they don't even have

organizations that are as wonderful as

the one we just heard about and so

they're kind of developing artistic ways

of working with youth around peace and

human rights that are very kind of basic

but i think that they're also very

telling in and many of them actually I

was seeing the connection to the

presentation we just saw and some of the

great activities that artworks is doing

as well and so these kind of three

examples of these activities are first

one is developing a personal timeline. So

giving students a big sheet of

paper

and having them just map out their

own personal history.

I mean it's not very often that youth

are really asked what's your life, tell

me the story of your life, tell me who

you are, where you come from and so and

really have a chance to develop it and

think about it and then presented to

others that could be presentation at a

school level, that could be presentation

to a classroom, to just a classmate but

that's sort of one. Then a second one

is a body map you know another very

simple activity but big sheet of paper

you sketch out there their body or you

have them trace it and then they sort of

basically decorated with things that

talk about their own identity or things

they have experienced or things that

they're feeling and how that's connected

to their body and so it's really again

connecting them and giving them a sense

of agency and letting them talk about

who they are and who they are in

relation to some of these things, their

society, the conflict they may face.

As the last one and this was actually one of

the activities just in a different form

that artworks does is a community map

right and I think it's wonderful to do

it with the photography and and actually

you know I've seen it done that way

sometimes it is incredibly impressive

but you could also just do it by handing

them paper and some markers you don't

have them describe the areas of their

their country, their city,

their neighborhood and again this gives them a

real sense of power and agency I think.

You know often they're shown map so we

teach about geography and it's seen as

kind of this objective external a way of

framing it but this allows them to

create it, well no this part of my

neighborhood is important to me because

this is where I always go to play with

my friends or this is a park where I can't

go because it's really dangerous and

there are drugs and there are gangs and whatever

it is and they really can shape their

space and start to understand a

little bit more how they're interacting

with that space. So I think we will have

time it may be kind of a little short

and sort of five minutes but i wanted to

end with kind of a classic teacher

activity right of a think pair share

I know you've had a number of talks

today I know you've had informal spaces

over coffee, over the wonderful lunch to

talk about some of what you've seen but

I wanted to sort of give you five

minutes here you

table. First introduced yourselves if you

haven't and then secondly to think about

these two quick questions in relation

both to what I've just talked about this

last half an hour but also maybe what

you've seen throughout the course of the

day and the two questions are first to

sort of what connections can you draw to

your own classrooms and education here

in the United States or even here in

Chicago. So what are you thinking about

right now in terms of your own classroom

that you know better than anyone else

here or your own educational context if

you're not a teacher and then secondly

maybe more generally so what do you

think about? Like what is all this kind

of discussion today?

What sort of juices are flowing in your

mind? You know I think it's always

wonderful to share with other people and

I think it's also late in the afternoon

so it's a great opportunity to start

sort of processing that before we check

out for the weekend so like I said I'll

give you five minutes if you want to

take a second to sort of think about it

yourself but then please share in your

groups and I'll ask some people to share

with the whole group when we come back

together at will say like 2:05.

Alright so why don't we I know that was

very very brief but I'm kind of

excited to hear about what some of these

thoughts and ideas are. Honestly this is

the part of my talk I was looking

forward to most.

I miss being in the classroom, I miss

kind of the things that you think about

is a teacher now being a PhD student so

I'm very curious to hear some of what

you're thinking about.

So do we have anyone who wants to be

brave and share whatever they were just

discussing in their pair or in their table?

Alright we got a brave one in the back.

So because I lived in Miami for 15 years

I knew about

a lot of South American countries and so I was aware

I have Colombian friends so I was aware of the disparity

in educational opportunities for wealthy

Colombians vs poor Colombians and obviously as

FARC became more powerful that

determined a lot of people's educational

outcomes for decades and so I

can just say I have probably more knowledge

of this and more appreciation of the

situation there and how it has fortunately gotten

better in the last probably year.

Yeah i think it's interesting that you

connect the two education and what's

going on with peace in that way because

I have to say one of the things that came out

my interviews with youth who are from

kind of lower socioeconomic status more

than anything was that they were happy

to see the conflict end because that

money that was used for war

now go to education that was sort of

their hope and it meant better

opportunities for them. And also I had plenty

of Colombian friends some who came to the US

as far back as the 80s and established themselves in

Miami

and then there were other people

who fled. I knew people like who had

like cousins kidnapped by FARC so I used

to hear stories 10 years ago, 15 years ago

and I could understand on a more

intimate level than the average American

about what the situation there was like.

Its a fascinating situation.

Alright I have another hand over here. We were just talking about

I'm in a high school and

we have all used peace circles. I started using

it in a classroom this year and it has really established a tone and

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It was a little awkward for me at first and the students but now that we have kind of established this as a space in class

so i'm not a guidance councilor so I was not comfortable at first

but they've taken it on themselves and actually look forward to it.

I was just thinking this week we haven't done it in a while so maybe I need to go back to it

to kind of bring us all back together. After all we are all in this together.

yeah and that was not something I

mentioned but that's a great practice

about peace circles and and I think there's

something really powerful about the word

peace. Right I mean even in Colombia even

with that vote that I showed you the

referendum people who voted no it's

still kind of say like well not against

peace but I'm against these accords

because you know peace is something that

unites and is very in some ways some

ways uniformly positive that could be

kind of used sometimes by political forces

but I think in this case for instance is

a great example having a peace circle to

build unity and giving it that that word

that label. Actually we don't use that word.

No. I actually didn't want to call it that because I didn't want there to be an assumption that there would be conflict.

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Yeah you know that that's also that's a

great point and that's I think one of

those great lessons of being aware of

your context in your situation too

and adapting it or using it that way.

Alright do we have one more, one more

group that wants to share? Alright keep

that thinking right. Keep those thoughts

coming. So to sort of end I want to leave

you with a couple of takeaways you know

this is my kind of sermonizing a little

bit some of these things I think you're

going to know what sort of the hope that

that I wanted to express today.

One is that peace and human rights

education is really wide ranging.

When the first time I saw those list of

12 themes i was like what is the

government thinking right offering 12

things that range from like the

environment to history to this to that

but i think it's good because it allows

for a lot of creativity and a lot of

things that cross across the lot of

issues. So it's really important

that they conceive of peace and human rights

education is being very inclusive and

wide-ranging. Secondly it's happening all

over the world right I mean there's

some great resources in great ways to

connect different places across the

world through peace education and

there's also some great opportunities to

learn and adapt practices that are going

on in other places to your own context

and you know this is the smallest little

kind of window into it i've offered

today but hopefully it all kind of make

you think in an open up exploring other

things that people are doing in other

places in countries particularly and

then lastly you know I feel silly kind

of saying this to teachers right because

this is something I think will resonate

but it's got to really be

student-centered when you're talking

about peace and human rights education

and one of the things that I find so

often in my work

that's interesting is when these

programs are created especially these

policies in places like Colombia they

talk about youth and they talk about the

children. But they don't go out and

actually asked them what are they

thinking? How are they processing this?

What's going on in their minds?

And that's kind of where my work is and

that's something I really want to push i

think is actually asking them and

talking to them what is peace mean to

you? What does human rights me to you?

You do an activity

with them, having them reflect on it,

having it really based in what's going

on in their heads to get to those kind

of outcomes you want to that that may be

larger as they become citizens, as they

become human rights activists and all of

that.

Lastly here a couple of resources I used

as i mentioned this is all on a

piece of paper that's in your folder but

it's wanted to highlight if you want to

take another look at any of them or see

some more you have it all their listed

with links and finally just say thank

you. Both too all of those who organized this

wonderful event today and for all of you

for your patience and time and again for

giving up the Cubs parade in order to be

here.

Thank you very much.

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