الموارد

The Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) was organized in Paris from 28 to 30 January 2015 under the overall theme 'Building peaceful and sustainable societies: preparing for post-2015'. The Forum was organized in support of the UN Secretary General's Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) and on the occasion of UNESCO's 70th Anniversary. The Forum was organized by the Division for Teaching, Learning and Content, Educatio Sector, UNESCO, with the support of Austria, the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Korea. Other partners also included the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Education First Initiative (GEFI), UNESCO's Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) and the Learning Matrix Task Force. Some 250 participants from 61 countries from all regions of the world attended the Forum. These included decision-and policy-makers, practitioners, teachers, development partners, academics, the private sector, civil society representatives (national, regional and international level) as well as learners and youth representatives. The Forum was organized around three plenary sessions and 20 concurrent sessions. Topics under consideration included, among others, GCED in the post-2015 education agenda, measuring GCED learning outcomes, teaching practices, peace and human rights education, respect for diversity and inter-religious education, tackling discrimination and violence, education for sustainable development, youth involvement, the use of ICT and social media, and others. For an overview of the programme, please see Annex I.