Human Rights Education

see also: Report by Walter Fisher in our Newsletter PODIUM

Human Rights Education Summer School
- First Steering Group Meeting in Vienna

Vienna was the site of the first steering group meeting for the International Network’s new project proposal – a Human Rights Education Summer School. From October 15 to 19, 2002, network members and experts from NGOs met to discuss the possibilities for creating a new format in the field of Human Rights Education.

While several summers schools on Human Rights, for example for activists or lawyers, have been created in the last few years, the idea of a such a learning environment for educators in the field of Human Rights is a new undertaking. Drawing strongly from the network’s member organizations’ expertise in educational program development and training, and with an emphasis on intercultural learning, the summer school would be constructed in a rotating manner, with a different partner organization and location chosen every year.

This first steering group meeting provided an opportunity to share experiences and create first drafts of possible concepts that will be further discussed and refined in the time to come. Despite of a full work schedule, participants also had the opportunity to visit with organizations working in the field of Human Rights Education, such as the Vienna-based Ludwig Boltzman Institute of Human Rights or the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC).

Katrin Uhl

Top left to right: Tanya Odom (Anti-Defamation-League, New York), Minna Nikolova (Institute of International Law and Itnernational Relations, University of Graz), Patricia Morgado (Novamerica, Rio de Janeiro), Katrin Uhl (Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh), Viola Georgi (Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich), Ulrike Wolff-Jontofsohn (Pedagogical University, Freiburg), Dorothea Steurer (Ludwig Boltzman Institute of Human Rights, Vienna)
Bottom left to right: Nasrin Morkus (Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace, Jerusalem), Felice Yeban (Center for Peace, Gender and Human Rights Education, Manila), Nancy Flowers (Human Rights Education Resource Center, University of Minnesota), Susanne Ulrich (Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich), Walter Fisher (Anti-Defamation-League, New York)