The Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN) is a multi-lingual, on-line, interactive system launched by UNESCO during the International year for the Culture of Peace (2000) and recognized by UN General Assembly resolution A-61-45 (see paragraph 9) as a contribution to the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). This network is run by volunteers and provides up-to-date coverage of news and media promoting a culture of peace.
I am pleased to announce a new CPNN website (http://cpnn-world.org ) designed to report on the advances toward a culture of peace throughout the world. This website is essential because culture of peace news is seldom reported by the mass media, which focuses on war and violence. It replaces a previous site that had been limited to news from the United States.
The new website is simple to use:
* Write a 300-400 word news report
* Respond to comments by a moderator who will check your report for clarity
or
* Register for DiscussionBoard (no delay)
* Log in to the Discussion Board to post your comments on any report
Please go to http://cpnn-world.org and write your own news report about events or media that promote a culture of peace. It may be something that you and your organization have done, or something that your read or saw in the media that promotes one or more aspects of a culture of peace (human rights, democratic participation, understanding, tolerance and solidarity, sustainable development, free flow of information, equality of women, peace education or disarmament).
Also add your comments to the DiscussionBoard which already hundreds of questions that have already been raised. Your comments may be on your own story or to any story previously submitted.
If your news report cannot be stated in only 300-400 words, then you should send it to us in two parts. The first part, a summary of 300-400 words, will be used as a news report, and the rest of the report will be put on the DiscussionBoard.
As we begin the new website, news reports must be in English, while discussion may be in any language. Hopefully, by the end of the year we can also allow French and Spanish for the news reports. And in a few years we hope to have other websites in other language scripts. A Japanese site already exists at http://www.cpnn.net and there is discussion for an Arabic site.
If you have further questions about the new website, please contact 
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