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Investing in Young Children for Peaceful Societies: Individual and Structural Transformation - Workshop in Brief
Investing in Young Children for Peaceful Societies: Individual and Structural Transformation - Workshop in Brief
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Pia Rebello Britto, Global Chief and Senior Advisor for Early Child Development at UNICEF, qualified the work shop objectives by stating that early childhood development and peace are often two points on a pathway that are not easily connected. Rima Salah of the Early Childhood Peacebuilding Consortium cited emerging and well-established scientific evidence from multiple disciplines that continue to substantiate the link between a child's early years and early life environment with long-term violence prevention and behaviors linked with peaceful communities.
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He did so by highlighting the migration patterns and demographic shifts of the current global refugee population, specifically focusing on the Syrian conflict and its impacts within Jordan and the Middle East region. Al-Nsour emphasized that the Syrian conflict is the single worst and largest driver of displacement since World War II, citing 60 million cumulative displaced people in 2014 (the most recent figure)
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To do so he suggested developing short-term targeted mental health and parenting interventions that can be delivered by lay community health workers by taking the common elements of both types of interventions and cross-culturally adapting them to specific contexts. EXAMPLES OF STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR REDUCING VIOLENCE AND PROMOTING CITIZENSHIP ENGAGEMENT AND PEACE AMONG CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND WOMEN The workshop brought together examples across policy, research, practice, dialogue and conflict resolution, and messaging and technology to demonstrate strategies and tools that have had measurable effectiveness in reducing violence and promoting peace.
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His Excellency El Sayegh advocated to go beyond the interministerial approach to foster dialogue that is holistic to include communication and conflict resolution strategies, and be grounded in daily living practices where in the Middle East there is still a community-based culture that occurs in shared social spaces, to which children should be central. To Rabih El Chammay, Head of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon, Salah requested that he reflect on the links between mental health and peace building.
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Ilham Nasser, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at George Mason University in the United States and Senior Advisor for American Near East Refugee Aid, explored the often conflicting investment demands across children's environments and educators. Nasser reminded the workshop participants that early childhood education is neither regulated nor compulsory in many regions, yet despite this reality, the focus especially in such places should be on a holistic and integrated approach to early childhood education.
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Nada Elattar, Director of Educational Programs for International Social Impact at Sesame Workshop in the United States, presented efforts to provide access to quality early childhood educational content to vulnerable populations in areas most in need. Elattar emphasized that the mission of Sesame Workshop is to help kids all over the world grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
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SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by Autism Speaks; the Bernard van Leer Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development; Grand Challenges Canada; HighScope Educational Research Foundation; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Jacobs Foundation; Lumos; the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation; the National Institutes of Health -- Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute of Mental Health; Nestlé Nutrition Institute; the Open Society Institute–Budapest Foundation; ReadyNation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Society for Research in Child Development; UNICEF; U.S. Agency for International Development; U.S.
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Agency for International Center for Research on Economic Development Development, Universidad de los Andes Janna Patterson Pamela Y Collins The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Office for Research on Disparities & Alan Pence Global Mental Health and Office of Rural School of Child and Youth Care, Mental Health Research, National Insti- University of Victoria tute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health Ruth Perou Centers for Disease Control and Tracy Costigan Prevention Research-Evaluation-Learning Unit, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cheryl Polk HighScope Educational Research FoundaGary Darmstadt tion Stanford University School of Medicine Eduardo de Campos Queiroz Angela Diaz Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Pia Rebello Britto Rana Hajjeh Early Childhood Development Unit, National Center for Immunization and UNICEF Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jose Saavedra Nestlé Nutrition Jody Heymann Fielding School of Public Health, Univer- Lorraine Sherr sity of California, Los Angeles University College London Gillian Huebner Andy Shih Maestral International Autism Speaks Venita Kaul Karlee Silver School of Education Studies and Center Grand Challenges Canada for Early Childhood Education and Devel- Simon Sommer opment, Ambedkar University Delhi Jacobs Foundation Sarah Klaus Taha E
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