Schools

Schools

Education in Human Rights is the primary objective of the CSHR. Many of its education projects are initiated with the belief that a society well informed about its rights could promote and sustain democratic governance and peaceful co-existence.

Human Rights Education Programmes for Schools

Targeting secondary school students, the programme is designed to teach human rights in a non-formal manner, thus enabling participants to integrate human rights values into their day-to-day activities. The rationale is that today's children constitute the core citizens of the first couple of decades of the 21st century and they need to be aware of the different dimensions of human rights. This programme has three goals: creating awareness of human rights, forming correct attitudes and developing skills relative to the school curriculum.

Senior & Senior Secondary Students

The role of the CSHR is planning activities to achieve set objectives, training of trainers, providing facilities, guidance and supervision and undertaking continuous assessment of projects. The programme, to be undertaken by students about to leave school after their GCE Ordinary Level & Advanced Level examinations, is field based, activity oriented and directed towards self training. The students are first exposed to various dimensions of human rights by the trained teachers. Then they are encouraged and facilitated to go out to the field in their respective areas to meet with relevant authorities to identify and analyze human rights issues facing their community. Thus, meeting not only the protectors of human rights but the violated and also violators, they are trained to assess issues from various standpoints.

Non-violent Conflict Resolution Workshops

This programme introduces the concept of resolution of conflicts through non-violent means, stressing the importance of the analysis of conflicts, identification of their causes and identifying methods of peaceful resolution. The methodology used includes role play, interaction, discussion & self-deduction. There is no teaching involved. Workshops are conducted by the staff trained in non-violent conflict resolution methodology.

Targeted goals:

- To impress upon participants that,

Conflicts are personal, national, regional and international in dimension;

Analysis of a conflict facilities its resolution;

Conflict resolution entails communication, cooperation and affirmation;

- To impart necessary skills.