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As the primary initiative of WICPER, the aim of these workshops is to train future leaders in the concept that they have duties to the community, to the environment and to future generations. The concept of trusteeship is emphasized to bring home to them the notion of responsible management of our inherited culture and resources for the benefit of those who are to come after us.
The Cultural Evening of the Training for Trusteeship Workshop highlights the richness and diversity of various cultures. This is achieved by a charity concert consisting of several acts by local performers.
Recent history of Sri Lanka shows that there have been instances at which the aspirations of youth have not been heard. Through these programs, they will have an opportunity to moot their observations and bring their concerns to a common forum, which could be discussed by those within the relevant disciplines and peers from various parts of the country
Join the Youth Walk for Planet Earth as part of the National Road to Rio + 20 Campaign. This is indeed a great opportunity to meet with friends and have fun whilst making new friends who care about the world they live in.
Come join the walk and show the world that the Youth can make a change!
WICPER FOUNDER Judge C.G. Weeramantry reaches out to the grass root levels of the education system with a message of optimism at a lecture titled “Your Responsibilities as World Citizens of the Future” on the 31st of March, at the Holy Family Convent Bamabalapitiya, Sri Lanka.
Neshan Gunasekera, Project Director of WICPER will be attending the Youth 21 Forum in Nairobi, Kenya as a part of the Sri Lankan Delegation. Youth 21 is a global initiative to bring together young people across the world to engage with the United Nations and to nurture youth leadership towards democratic governance and Sustainable Development
WICPER in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung presents internationally renowned scientist and philosopher Professor Dr Hans-Peter Durr
The Weeramantry International Center was an active affiliate at the Launch of the Education for Peace and Sustainable Development National Action Plan at Temple Trees under the auspices of His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse on Monday the 30th of January 2012.
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A guest lecture series on the rights of differently-abled covering all perspectives, ranging from individual rights to volunteerism.
Judge Weeramantry delivered the key note address at the awareness event on Landmines and Explosive Remnants organised by Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Landmines on 25th November 2011 at the SLTTI Auditorium in Sri Lanka Foundation Institute.
The Nuclear Abolition Forum: Dialogue on the Process to Achieve and Sustain a Nuclear Weapons Free World was launched at the Baha‟i UN Office on the 21st October 2011, alongside the release of the inaugural edition of the Forum‟s periodic magazine.
The General Assembly of the IALANA, was held at University of Szczecin, Poland from June 17-19, 2011 under the President of H.E. Judge C.G. Weeramantry.
Peter and Cora Weiss, two of the leading peace activists, educators and promoters in the world paid tribute to the wonderful contribution Judge Weeramantry has made toward eradicating the nuclear threat facing humanity and for promoting peace education all over the world.
We at WICPER seek to do all we can, even on a microscopic scale, to eliminate the causes of conflict through peace education, the use of international law as an instrument of peace, remolding of attitudes through cross cultural understanding and instilling a resolve to be careful trustees of the futures. If this work can be magnified ten million fold, there will be peace on earth. We do what we can and hope others will profit from our experience and propagate this message.
Key Note Address at the Justice Charles Gonthier Memorial Conference organized by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, International Development Law Organization and the Mac Gill University Montreal, Canada.
18th -20th May 2011
The theme underlying this book is that while humanity faces the severest threat to its survival, since humanity began it neglects the richest reservoir of environmental wisdom available to it. The common core of teachings of the great religions on this topic enshrines the wisdom of millennia of human interaction with the environment. Yet this resource remains largely unknown and unused. This book builds a powerful bridge between the past and the present, between the religious and the secular and between the worlds different cultures. It can make a significant impact on the way we address the problems that threaten the very existence of humanity.
