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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.
Judge Weeramantry, Founder-Trustee, WICPER to address the International Conference on Global Movement for Moderates in KL, Malaysia, under the title - “Conflict Resolution: The Need for a New International Paradigm”
A short video of TFT Alumni, Sikander Sabeer’s journey to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2011 which took place from 28th November to 9th December in Durban, South Africa.
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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.
Judge C. G. Weeramantry, on the invitation of the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University of Kelaniya, delivered the keynote address on the themes of “Equity, Sustainability and Transformability” at the Annual Research Symposium that was scheduled for today the 03rd of November 2011, hosted at the University premises. The audience at the initiation of the symposium consisted of members of the academic staff of the universities, senior administrators and graduate students.
Neshan Gunasekera, Legal Assistant to Judge C.G. Weeramantry attended the 5th World Future Council Annual General Meeting 2011, titled, “The Next 5 Years : Growing and Acting Together” from the 4th – 6th November 2011 at Hamburg, Germany.
The members of the Council, Supervisory Board, Board of Advisors and staff discussed and drew up strategies and activities for the coming year. Key topics were the upcoming Earth Summit in Rio in 2012, rights of future generations and the spreading of best policy solutions in climate/energy, sustainable ecosystems, sustainable economies and peace and disarmament.
Mr Michael Silberman, Director, Innovations, Greenpeace International and Ms Susannah Vila, Director – Content and Outreach, Movements.org, conducted full-day training on strategy, new media and winning campaigns on September 5th, 2011.
The Fourth Annual Training For Trusteeship Workshop 2011 under the theme of Youth Activation: Duties Towards Our Common Heritage was successfully completed in September 2011.
This year’s workshop consisted of 38 Sri Lankan participants covering all sixteen universities and youth groups and 33 foreign participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and USA.
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.
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.
