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MAKE YOUR PEACE: AN OLYMPIC TRUCE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS3

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on the playing eld respect, fair play, diversity and inclusivity as a catalyst for good.

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upon countries to lay down instruments of conict, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Truce

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sidity. It stts wit You!

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PART ONE:

EDUCATION AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES


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De Coubertins educational mission appears in the Olympic Charter ofthe International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the following fundamentalprinciples:

Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole

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oympism sks t t wy f if bsd t jy fd i fft, t

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ti piips (Fdmt Piip #2).

The goal of Olympism is to place everywhere sport at the service of the

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(Fdmt Piip #3).

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The New Oxford English Dictionary denes a truce as an agreement between enemies

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ttd t oympi Gms d t ftwds t ti spti tis. as t

pig f t Gms ppd, t sd t ws pimd d d byitis f eis, w td tgt G t pss t mssg. F m

t tsd ys, t Gks td i sfty t ptiipt i t Gms.

The modern-day International Olympic Committee revived theancient concept of the Olympic Truce with the following goals:

Protecting, as much as possible, the interests of the athletes and sport.

Offering the opportunity to people at war with each other to stop their conict

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Using sport to establish contacts and nd common ground among communitiesin conict.

The Olympic Truce is symbolized by a dove of peace ying over the Olympic

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ame of the Olympic Games appears in the background.

1 Adapted from International Olympic Committee. 2009. olympic.org/en/content/The-IOC/Commissions/International-relations-/

Olympic-Truce/. Retrieved September 8, 2009.

2The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Mk Y P a Iitti t Ptiipt

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Our purposes are:

To create opportunities for young people to learn and practice

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To encourage young people to plan and organize peace projects.

We want you to use this guide if you are:

A school administrator, a teacher, a community youth group leader

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Anyone who wants to promote peace.

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Use this Make Your Peaceguide to help young people with the following:

Respond to and create messages of peace through song, storyd pfm.

Understand and respond to the peace messages of symbols and ceremonies.

Research and appreciate the challenges of being a role model for peace.

Identify and celebrate peace heroes in their own families and communities.

Become informed, inspired and involved through the work of global peace

ti gps.

Explore reasons for conict, and identify and practice strategies

for resolving conicts.

Collaborate to develop safe and caring schools, sport clubs, homes

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Plan, organize, implement and celebrate a peace initiative in their families,

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Share dreams and peace initiatives with other Canadians and with the world.

Understand that peace begins at home.


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cttsMake Your Peace:

Offers suggestions for integrating Make Your Peacetiitis it y

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Includes activities for young people 818 years of age.

Provides suggestions for helping young people create projects on themes

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Includes resources and materials to help you get started now.

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The activities of this guide are based on the following principles

of learning:

Learning is an active process.

Learning takes place individually and cooperatively in groups.

Learners have different styles and ways of learning.

The guide includes activities for learners aged 818 years. Since we know

that young people love a challenge, the learning activities are written as

Challenge Pages. The challenges are intended to:

engage learners through written, oral, visual and creative activities

encourage group as well as individual activity

be adapted as appropriate for various age levels and abilities

appeal to a variety of learning styles

Helping young people to develop positive values is a complex process.

Therefore Make Your Peaceengages young people in activities that:

appeal to their emotions

stimulate their creative and imaginative participation

encourage discussion and critical thinking

offer opportunities for them to practice and rehearse positive behaviour

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PART TWO:

CHALLENGE PAGES


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Songs are also thought provoking. They present questions, ideas or topics to reect upon

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- list t sg f y i tt pmts p (f mp, Let There Be Peace

On Earth3).

What do you think about when you listen to the music and lyrics? What colours

would you use to describe the music of the song? What images come to mind

as you listen? What feelings do the music and lyrics of the song present? How

do you feel when you listen to the song? Discuss the aspect of the song that

mks y f tt wy, f mp, t ytm, t istmts sd, t

i, t mig i t yis.

Share your reasons for choosing a particular song and explain how it makes

y tik bt p w y ist t it.

Create a piece of visual artwork (for example, collage, painting, sculpture, mobile)

t pst t mssg f sg f p f y i. Itpt y

ti f ts.

Present your thoughts and feelings about a song of peace in another art form,

s s ptgp, pitig, spt, dm, py, m, qit

id/mi.

Read, recite or memorize the lyrics of a song of peace. Choose a different piece

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important messages? How does changing the music alter the messageor feelings of the song?

Find song lyrics or instrumental music with positive messages of peace by other

mpss fm difft t tditis. rs d pi t isty

f t yis d/ msi.

- compose the musi and write lyris for your own song with a message promoting peae.

- Fid wit pm wit mssg f p, d st msi t mpy t

pm. epi t mssg f t pm d y ss f t i f msi

t mpy t wds/mssg.

- Stg p t Canadian Idol-typ mptiti ftig sgs, ds

msi pfms.

3For one version of the song go to the following website: blueyze.net/peaceonearth.html.Retrieved September 8, 2009.

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a culture. Most cultural traditions tell stories about events that ended war or conict

and promoted peace. These stories inspire us all to nd ways to end conict in our own

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Find other stories about the founding of the ancient Olympic Games.

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Make a peace treaty in your group or class. Then make a big disc out of clay

(or other material) like the Disk of Itos. Inscribe the important messages

f y tty t disk.

- rd t stis gds bt p-mkig ts. emps migt id:

The Great Peacemaker: Deganawida and The Great Law of Peace4

The Dove Bird of Peace from Azerbaijan.5

Tell one of these stories in your own words.

Retell the story in sign language or print it in Braille.

Write a peace story with your own characters.

4 The Great Peacemaker, wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Peacemaker,Retrieved September 9, 2009

5Sadnik Pirsultanli, Legends from Azerbaijan, The Dove Bird of Peace,

azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai131_folder/131_articles/131_legend_dove.html, Retrieved September 9, 2009.

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T Sty f t oympi T6

The ancient Olympic Games were closely connected to the worship of the gods,

goddesses and heroes. As the most famous of the national festivals of the ancient

Greeks, they were celebrated in the summer every four years.

The word for truce in ancient Greek is ekecheiria, which literally means holding hands.

According to mythology, at the beginning of the 8th century BC, Itos, king of Elis,

was deeply concerned about the warring state of affairs in Greece, which had been

devastated by wars and plagues. He turned to the god Apollo at Delphi for advice and

guidance on what he should do to save the country. Apollo suggested that Itos and

the people of Elis should restore the sport contests and establish the Olympic Games as

a celebration of peace.

In 776 BC, King Itos met with other Greek leaders to sign an agreement. The text of theagreement was written on a disk and kept in the most ancient temple on the Olympic site.

According to the agreement, there was to be a cessation of any hostility for a period of

one month (later three months) to allow for the safe, peaceful travel of athletes, artists

(musicians, poets, actors) and spectators to and from Olympia, and for their participation

in the Games. Neither armies nor armed individuals were allowed to enter the sacred

sanctuary, and no death penalties were to be carried out during the period of the truce.

This sacred truce,or ekecheiria, lasted 12 centuries and was rarely violated.

- rd bk sty i wi pmkig is tm (s t ist

f cdi stis t t pg tt d wit t tm f p).

Describe the conict situation(s). How is the conict solved?

Who is the peacemaker in the story? How do other characters contribute to

making peace?

Ceremonies and symbols help people to remember and celebrate their

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or represent the peacemaking event in the story?

With a small group, dramatize an important peacemaking scene from the story.

- Wit sty bt pmkig t tt s tk p i y fmiy, s

mmity. ct py, pppt sw mii-dm bt pf sti f

pbm t s t pygd.

6 Adapted from Guo, Y and Binder, D. 2004. The Truce Story: Teachers Guide. Athens: International Olympic Truce Centre, p.2.


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peace building and conict resolution. These works were all nalists or recipients of a

G G's lity awd i t tgy f cids litt.

English:

* Db eis: Parvana's Journey(t sty f yg afg gi w mbks

on a voyage to nd her family), for 1014 years (2002).

* Stp Jis: Jabberwocky(bsd t ssi pm by lwis c, tis sty

explores the effects of war on each generation and the inuence of propaganda on

t ti mid), f 9 ys d d (2004).

* K li, Hana's Suitcase(t t sty f sm yg Jps id

pig t mysty f d sits wit t m f yg cski

girl who was sent to Auschwitz during World War II), for 912 years (2002).

* S e. MKy,: Charlie Wilcox( bk bt yg by fm nwfdd w

mistakenly nds himself at the front lines of World War I), for 12 years and older (2000).

* Kit Ps, The Sky is Falling( sty f yg gi d bt iig i st

egd dig Wd W II w st ss t ptt tm fm bmbs d

possible invasion from Hitlers army) for 912 years (1989).

* ag zg: Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution ( bk

dsibig t ts ffts t ji t rd Gds, yt gp fig t ws

of Mao in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s), for 812 years (2004).

En franais :

* lt Gim, Le chevalier des Arbres( m qi jtt gd isit s

l Sd G Mdi), p s13 s t ps (2003).

* l Ms, Le grand voyage de Monsieur(tt d Gis Tib) ( isti d'miti

t mm qi pd s ft t t ft itim d g), p

s 4 7 s (2002).

* Ji nd, Nul poisson o aller(tt d Mi-F hbt) (t t

d g t q 'impsib), p s 12 s t ps (2004).

* B rbts, Fidles lphants(tt d'Yki Tsiy tdit p Mi Mi)

(p d g t d ss btis), p s 8 s t ps (2001).

* h v, L'oiseau de passage( it s pt isi q g

t s sqs s i ds gs), p s 10 s t ps (2002).


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A symbol is dened as a shape or sign that represents an organization or idea.7

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sds t mssg f vtis Dy. ad t wd t my difft

symbs f t id f p.

Your Challenges

- Look at the symbol for the Olympic Truce. How many different ideas are represented?

- us t itt t ss t p t igis d stis f t symbs f

p. Disss t mssgs f ts symbs.

Talk about why these symbols have become an important way to represent

t id f p.

Which peace symbols are most meaningful for you? Why?

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- Mk t f ms f ysf y fmiy, s giti.

Id symb tt psts y isi f p i y fmiy giti.

epi wy y s t symbs y t f ms.

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Symbols of peace from different cultures and different parts of the world.

One symbol of peace and its meaning or signicance to you or to the world.

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mmity giti.

- Wt id f t opig cmy f oympi Gms. Wt symbs

of peace can you identify?

- Resolve a conict situation and create a symbol of peace to celebrate

t pmkig.

- Tk w tys d t tm it p t (g t wtystpt.m

f ids d im gid).

7 The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Photo credit: 1. tseringdhondupacho k, 2. Valerie Everett, 3. Mourner.


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Ptiipti i d ppiti f d ps s dstd d pss ss

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i t wd.

Your Challenges

- Wt mis, msi ids tpd sgmts fm Tv swig difft

stys f ds.

For each dance describe your rst impression.

Examine how the components (for example, movements, performers, music,

stgft) wkd tgt t i t mtis mssgs tt

mmitd.

Identify evidence of particular cultures, styles or time periods represented

i t wk.

Think about and discuss what the work means to you, and then analyze

how your responses are inuenced by your own experiences and perceptions

f t wd.

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(for example, peace, joy, conict, friendship, togetherness, confusion, resolution).

Use the elements of movement body, space, time, dynamics, relationship

t y ts mmts.

Find a piece of music that would be appropriate for each of these series

f mmts.

Practice the series of movements to the music that you have chosen.

Pfm y d.

In a small group, discuss your feelings as you participated in these movements.

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- Learn and practice the basic steps of gure skating, and improvise a gure skating

ti t msi wit mssg f p.

- l d pfm ds fm difft t tditis. Mk stms

d pps d stg mtit d fsti.

- Impis d t pti sty f msi (f mp, i, ip-p, ji, wt,

lti ami), t t mmts t tt sty i ity f difft gpigs

using strategies such as mirroring, shadowing or ocking

wit ts.

- Dmmig t mpy dig d sigig is tditi i my ts. Iit

dm gp dmm t m t y gp t dt dmmig wksp.

Dsib y pis dig tis wksp.

Investigate the drumming and dancing traditions of different parts of the world(f mp, afi, Jps, cis, Fist ntis f nt ami, Id).

Create your own drumming and dancing group.


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bidig pf wd by dtig yt tg spt ptid i d wit

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Your Challenges

- People say that sport builds character. Do you agree with this statement? Why? Discuss

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m d itt dpmt. Mk pst isttig t psiti s f

spt.

- Sm pp sy tt mptiti d t pss t wi pts spt fm

contributing to the development of positive values. Do you agree? Why? Discuss

mps f sittis i wi sptig t sitti did t tibt t

pf psiti tm. Ptiipt i dbt p disssi t tpi.T y p disssi it idtpd dmty.

- Sports have rules. Why do they have rules? What would happen to a sport that had no

rules? What happens in sport if someone breaks the rules? Make up a game and the rules

that go with it. What happens if someone breaks the rules?

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f sitti:

Improv #1 Two boys and two girls are playing a game of oor hockey

d f tm gts y gy w ppt ss g.

Improv #2 Three people are participating in a game of baseball.

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Improv #3 Five people are participating in a school track meet.

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f spt: jy f fft, fi py, spt f ts, psit f d fidsip.

Iit tt fm y mmity w psts ts s t spk t

y gp.

Research the careers and values of Canadian Olympic and Paralympic role

mds s s Jff adms (wi ig), Stpi Di (Pympi

swimming), Cindy Klassen (speed skating), Jeff Buttle (gure skating), Hayley

Wikis (ky) d Bki Stt (ss-ty skiig).

- Evaluate the inuence of the media on sport. List some of the ways that the media

mmits pf d psiti mssgs bt t s f spt. list sm f

t wys tt t mdi mmits gti mssgs bt t s f spt.

ct dtismt t mt mmitig psiti s bt

spt.

- Ptiipt i spt pysi tiity f y i. rd i diy

t ts tt td pf jyf figs d t ts tt

created conict. Analyze your record.

- hw d mj spt ts ik t oympi d Pympi Gms

promote peace?


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p. Ti pis wi g y t tk ti f p i y w fmiis,

ss d mmitis.

Your Challenges

- Fm pim miist f cd lst B. Ps ws t y cdi t wi nb

P Pi. M. Ps ws skid t pig pp w w mis tk t

t d mk t wd btt p.

Find out more about the work of Lester B. Pearson.

Find out more about the missions of the United Nations (UN) or the

nt atti Tty ogiti (naTo).

Create a newspaper or magazine that tells stories about Canadian peacekeepingmissis i t pts f t wd.

Interpret the symbols of the UN and the UN Peacekeeping Forces.

- rd t -if stis Pink Shirt Dayd Not Without Azzyppig bw.

What is the problem in each of the events? How did the young people help

to resolve conict and create peace and harmony in their communities?

Pretend you are interviewing one of the people in these real-life stories. Record

y itiw.

Discover how other youths across Canada have made changes through the

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J, G G f cd (s itiis.gg.//tms/yt_

digs).

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- rs s f p i y mmity (s t hs li h

ss f ts t 2010gisw.m/s_i_/).

Describe what makes someone a hero.

Produce a documentary on the life and work of a local hero of your choice.

Interview someone in your community who has worked to resolve conicts

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Dsib t qitis f t ps tt y dmi. rs y fmiy

isty d idtify fmiy mmb wm y dmi. Wy d y dmi

that person?

- Discuss the following topic: After a conict or war, there must be some way

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a peaceful environment after they have resolved a conict?

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Pik Sit Dy8

David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest to

wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied . . . [They] took a stand

against bullying when they protested against the harassment of a new Grade 9 student

by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school.

I learned that two people can come up with an idea, run with it, and it can do wonders,

says Mr. Price, 17, who organized the pink protest. Finally, someone stood up for a

weaker kid.

So Mr. Shepherd and some others headed off to a discount store and bought 50 pink

tank tops. They sent out message to schoolmates that night, and the next morning they

hauled the shirts to school in a plastic bag.

As they stood in the foyer handing out the shirts, the bullied boy walked in. His face spoke

volumes. It looked like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders, Mr. Price recalled.

The bullies were never heard from again.

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S osb, aii Stit d t pt gis s tm i np, oti

byttd tmt bs f ti tmmts ws't wd t py i

Msim dsf.

It was Sunday, and the second string of their team was heading onto the eld. Suddenly,

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wd t py i ijb.

T np gis d tid d d w g t py t ti- mt. Bt

t ws wy ty'd py witt ay. Ty didd t wk t f t tmt,

ffitig ti gm t t diidig ti tm. (T t ottw- tms

followed suit). In the world of grownups, the are-up on the eld was all about culture

ss d igis mmdti.

T t 11-y-ds i k sks, it ws bt pyig fi d pyig s . T tm,

ay ws tmmt, t igis symb . . . utimty, t tm's ity pd t

b its stgt. T np htsps St wt dftd tis ss, wiig t

g mpisip.

8Globe and Mail. 2007. Quoted in Pink Shirt Day. Online athttp://www.pinkshirtday.ca/about/.Retrieved September 9, 2009.

9 Peritz. I. 2007. Students give world a lesson in courage. Globeandmail.com, December 26, 2007. Online at

theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071226.wnationbuild27/BNStory/National, Retrieved September 9, 2009.


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fids d t wd i tg ti ps. Ty t wbsits d

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Your Challenges

- us t TkigITGb (tigwb.g/), uitd ntis assiti i cd

(unac) (.g) d Youcan (y.) wbsits f m ss d t

nd out how organizations use the internet to promote peace activities.

A vision is a dream or a hope for the future. What is the vision of TakingITGlobal?

Of the UNAC? Of YOUCAN?

How do the websites make you feel? Are you inspired to participate? Why or

why not?

What is the symbol of each organization? What do you think each means? How

does the symbol represent the work of the organization?

What is the content of each the website? Make a table of contents of the main

tpis digs. Mk pst f y w swig t tts f f

t wbsits.

You have been given the job of improving the websites. What suggestions would

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attention-grabbing?

- Check out the websites of other global action groups. What are their missions?

What are their projects? How are their projects organized? Examples:

Citizen Voices (itiis.gg.)

Apathy Is Boring (ptyisbig.m/)

Youth Action for Peace (yp.g/)

Youth Action International (yttiitti.g)

- Summarize ve features that you like best from all of the websites.

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MAKE YOUR PEACE PROJECT


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- Discuss the role of rules in preventing conict. What happens when someone

breaks the rules?

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competition in sport? But sometimes what goes on in sport is not very friendly. Share

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- Make a lm about peace (k t t rism. Stp It! ti id mptiti

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What is the vision or mission of your peace action website?

What activities will help your group or organization achieve its mission?

What topics will you include on your website? Make it simple; pick three or four.

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What is your symbol? What colours will you use on your website?

Why will you use these colours?

How will you organize your topics?

What photos or graphics will you use?


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action? Seeking out sources of inspiration can give you great ideas and help you to nd

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2 Identify and Get Informed

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3 Lead and Get Others Involved

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4 Get Connected

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5 Plan and Get Moving

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often learn more from things that are difcult than those that are easy!

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you likely inuenced others and experienced personal growth!

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Phase Questions to Think About Our Comments Our Score

1. Reect and

get inspired

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- Were there any surprises?

2. Identify andget informed

- What were your most useful resources?

- I wt wys y ffts pdyou to gain more in-depth knowledge?

3. Lead and getothers involved

- What skills have you developed by taking action?

- What skills do you and your team need to improve?

4. Get connected - Wt tts did y mk s yplanned and organized your project?

- What support did your contacts provide?

5. Plan andget moving

- What goals did you achieve?What goals did you not achieve?

- What were your main obstacles? How could youovercome these obstacles in the future?

6. Have a lastingimpact

- What outcome are you most proud of?

- What would you do differently next time?


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PART FOUR:

USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES


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tiitis.

Canadian school portal for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and ParalympicWinter Games2010.m/d

Ofcial website of the Olympic Movementympi.g

Ofcial website of the International Olympic Truce Centreympit.g

United Nations and the Olympic Truce.g/ts/ympit/pp.stm

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Right to Playigttpy.m

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TakingITGlobaltigwb.g/

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UNESCO: Peace Is In Our Handsttp://ww3.s.g/iyp/

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United Nations Association in Canada (UNAC).g

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United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.g/disbiitis/

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YOUCANy.

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Youth Action Internationalyttiitti.g

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children affected by war or living in difcult circumstances, empower them to reach their

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ats f Tsfmti: W Tys t P at sks id d yt t sd ti

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find your dream.tell your story.inspire someone.

SHINE A SPOTLIGHT

ON YOUR STUDENTSand inspire someone with justa click of your mouse!

At vancouver~.com/edu, were lookingfor great school projects that have the power

to inspire and engage young people in the

Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic

Winter Games.

Share your students art, poetry, photos

and even music with others across Canada

and the world, and find lots of great

curriculumlinked resources on fun activities

surrounding Canadas Games.

Receive stickers and pins just for submitting

your classroom project and be entered towin a special grand prize to share with

your entire school.

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