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EI strongly encourages its member organisations to take part in the coming International Peace Education Conference, which will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, from 25-27 June 2006. The Conference is part of the World Peace Forum (WPF), which will take place from 23-28 June.

As mandated in the resolution passed by the 26th session of EI's Executive Board meeting in February 2006, EI will send a delegation to the Conference, led by its President Thulas Nxesi and Deputy General Secretary Jan Eastman. The EI delegation will participate in the Peace Walk on 24 June, and Nxesi will open the International Peace Education Conference the next day. The theme of the conference will be "Educating a Generation to create a Culture of Peace". The conference will bring together teachers, students, elders and citizens with interests in pre-school to tertiary education to discuss, produce and disperse curricula of peace, discuss and model teaching and organisational strategies to sustain peace efforts, and to transform society by seeking answers to the question "how, through education, are we going to create a culture of peace in our classrooms and communities?". To enable member organisations in countries in conflict-situations to participate in the Conference, EI strongly encourages funding partnerships, where a member organisation funds the participation costs of another member organisation in need. For more information, please refer to the links below.