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Launch of the Utzil Paz Peace Program in Guatemala
- Education and Culture of Peace
Launch of the Utzil Paz Peace Program bringing together partners from Cobán, Chi Jolom Academic Circle; San Lucas Tolimán, Pavarottti Educational Center; and San Marcos, Ajchmol Association.
The Utzil Paz Peace Program is a strategic space financed by United Peace International, for the strengthening of Education and Culture of Peace, for the construction of a multicultural society within the framework of the development of Human Rights and especially Indigenous Rights, which constitutes the strategic framework for collaboration with all participating sectors, with a multidisciplinary and inter-institutional character.
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1. Utzil, Paz, Peace in San Marcos, Guatemala
San Marcos, Maya Mam, Sipakapense and Chuj region, is one of the furthest
departments from the capital of Guatemala. It is one of the towns that were most affected during the internal armed conflict that this country experienced and due to its geographical location, this is one of the populations with the highest rate of poverty and lack of formal education, which is why the Utzil Paz Peace Program its objective is to help improve education, which in turn allows a better quality of life for young people, children and women in these communities.
The leadership and education training workshops, given to specialists, were
implemented on the basis of relevance and the sociolinguistic context of this region, to strengthen their pedagogical capacities to conceive and promote Indigenous Law, from an Education for a Culture of Peace with quality.
2. Teacher Training
Workshops with teachers from the Pavarotti Educational Center, to offer teacher
training to update learning methodologies and forms of planning.
With the purpose of strengthening their abilities to learn to teach to guarantee quality education in the classroom, with cultural and linguistic relevance, also guaranteeing the dialogue between theory-practice, which allows building knowledge that responds to the academic context, social, cultural and linguistic of the study center and that allow determining the progress and achievements obtained during learning.
Training Topics
• Mayan Worldview
✓ Worldview, cosmogony and spirituality
✓ Women and men of corn
✓ Origin and conception of the universe
✓ Cholq’ij Wuj: The sacred Mayan calendar
✓ The importance of Cholq'ij in people's lives
✓ Principles and values of the human being
•Political reality of the people
•Fundamentals of Education
•Learning Development
•Relevance of Learning
3. Workshops in Coban, Guatemala
The Workshops in Cobán, Mayan Q'eqchi' and Poqomchi' region, were carried out by the partner Chi Jolom Academic Circle, in a space for dialogue, political reflection on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
These workshops brought together representatives from approximately 15 organizations and spiritual guides in the region.
4. Peace Museum Project
Technical meetings to monitor architectural design and review of conceptualization, feedback and socialization workshops with museum experts, ancestral authorities and spiritual guides, architects and designers, for the creation of the Peace Museum in Guatemala, which is proposed as an institution for the protection, preservation, documentation, research and communication of science, knowledge, technology and ancestral knowledge of the Mayan civilization, the life and work of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchú Tum and the historical memory of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, as a contribution to unity, peace and reconciliation in Guatemala and the Mesoamerican region.
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