[13/09/2007]
The Fundación Cultura de Paz, led by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, and the UOC's Campus per la Pau i la Solidaritat, with Eduard Vinyamata as director, are organising an event to reflect on peace. As well as the directors of both institutions, the Government Delegate in Madrid, José Cuervo, will be attending. The event will take place at the Blanquerna bookshop in Madrid (c/ Alcalá¡, 44) on 19 September at 7.30 pm.
The UOC and the Fundación Cultura de Paz organise an event in Madrid to promote peace
As part of this event, the lecturer in the UOC Department of Humanities, Joan Campàs, will give the paper entitled "The deconstruction of the classical myth in Picasso's Guernica". Professor Campàs will show how Picasso, inspired by Allegory of Peace and War by Rubens, turned Guernica into a clear plea for peace. The event will take place in Madrid two days prior to World Peace Day, which is held on 21 September and which aims to commemorate and strengthen the ideals of world peace.
Campus for Peace and Solidarity
The Campus for Peace and Solidarity is the university of NGOs, the solidarity initiative of
the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). The aims of the Campus for Peace and Solidarity are
training, research and raising awareness using information technologies. From a university
perspective, the institution boasts a pioneering pedagogical methodology that relates and enables
people and organisations worldwide to improve their humanitarian and solidarity task. The channel
of dissemination is a virtual campus of universal access where knowledge of a social and
humanitarian application is transferred with no geographical, temporal, socio-economic, linguistic
or personal barriers. The platform also integrates a database of links and specific resources and
consolidates a worldwide network of virtual volunteers. Formed by a multidisciplinary team of
professionals, the Campus for Peace and Solidarity provides support for the work of recognised
institutions and organisations that share or complement the same aims. To date, tens of agreements
have been signed whereby the Campus provides its know-how, its technological platform and a unique
pedagogical methodology to agencies of the likes of Unicef, Catalan Development Cooperation Agency,
Amnesty International, the Red Cross, Engineering Without Frontiers and the "la Caixa" charity
work.
Fundación Cultura de Paz
Created in March 2000 and attached to the Charities Protectorate of the Education Department
of the Community of Madrid, its aim is to contribute to the construction and consolidation of a
peace culture through reflection, research, education and action on the ground. Its activity is
primarily based on the connection and mobilisation of networks of institutions, organisations and
individuals that are outstanding for their commitment to the values of the peace culture. Its
actions are focused principally on the information and education spheres.
Information Society