UNESCO Teachers of the Future Initiative Pacific Albatross Network

Reflections

May 2005

We are handing on to our young people a turbulent world with many challenges and insecurities. Their life will not be easy but it will be rewarding if we keep our youth programmes strong, and engage young people as equal partners, seeing them not as the problem but as part of the solution. For in the heart and mind of every young person is a desire to make a difference, to contribute to and be part of a vision. We must provide that vision.

Since peace begins in the minds of youth, it is in the minds of youth that the foundations of peace must be constructed.

Herein lies our greatest challenge for the next 60 years, to create peace in the minds of youth.

Professor Kenneth Wiltshire AO
Chair, Australian National Commission for UNESCO

July 11, 2004
"Peace must begin with each one of us.
Through quiet and serious reflection on its meaning, new and creative ways
can be found to foster understanding, friendships and co-operation among all peoples."

Javier Perez De Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, September, 1986

May 17, 2004

"We have come to realise that it is not enough to send peacekeeping forces to separate warring parties, or to engage in peace-building efforts after conflict has taken place. It is not even enough to conduct preventative diplomacy. We need to act at a deeper level for the prevention of violent conflicts before they arise. We need in short, a culture of peace."

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations


	"We are handing on to our young people a turbulent world with many challenges and insecurities. Their life will not be easy but it will be rewarding if we keep our youth programmes strong, and engage young people as equal partners, seeing them not as the problem but as part of the solution. Professor Kenneth Wiltshire AO Chair, Australian National Commission for UNESCO