Culture of Peace Index
A Culture of Peace Index Proposal for Self-assessment of a city in the eight UN Culture of Peace program areas is available as a PDF file (64K).
The proposal is taken from the book, “World Peace through the Town Hall” by David Adams, UNESCO Director 1992-2001.
GOALS
• annual assessment: central task for a culture of peace commission
• important that the index and sub-indices should be real numbers, either quantitative measures or quantitative representations of qualitative assessments
• easy to measure, i.e. they should involve measurements that are not so time-consuming and/or expensive that they cannot be done every year.
• each community will have a unique measure that cannot be directly compared to that of other communities, and only compared to itself from one year to another
BENEFITS
• A culture of peace index can be used in advertising for tourism.
• A culture of peace index can be very well integrated into the practice of "twinning" with cities or towns in other parts of the world.
• A culture of peace index will focus attention on important tasks that might otherwise escape notice.
• A culture of peace index will reinforce the self-identification of citizens as participants in the creation of that culture.
The proposal is taken from the book, “World Peace through the Town Hall” by David Adams, UNESCO Director 1992-2001.
GOALS
• annual assessment: central task for a culture of peace commission
• important that the index and sub-indices should be real numbers, either quantitative measures or quantitative representations of qualitative assessments
• easy to measure, i.e. they should involve measurements that are not so time-consuming and/or expensive that they cannot be done every year.
• each community will have a unique measure that cannot be directly compared to that of other communities, and only compared to itself from one year to another
BENEFITS
• A culture of peace index can be used in advertising for tourism.
• A culture of peace index can be very well integrated into the practice of "twinning" with cities or towns in other parts of the world.
• A culture of peace index will focus attention on important tasks that might otherwise escape notice.
• A culture of peace index will reinforce the self-identification of citizens as participants in the creation of that culture.
Comment
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Comment by David Hazen on May 27, 2010 at 10:35am -
I couldn't find the details on the call. When, what number?
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Comment by Jon Ramer on May 27, 2010 at 10:14am -
This is awesome David. Thank you for sharing this. We will review this on our next Compassionate Cities call. I hope you can join us.
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