Learning Groups
Peacebuilding Learning Group
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The aim of this Learning Group is to share knowledge and expertise in relation to the development of early childhood programs that promote respect for ethnic diversity specifically in areas that are either currently experiencing and/or emerging out of armed conflict.
OUTPUTS
The Learning Group is currently preparing two Working Papers that will be made available via the Reports page of this website:
- The first Paper will provide an overview of the key issues and challenges facing early childhood organisations seeking to develop programs in conflict affected regions. The paper will look at the nature and impact of conflict on young children and their communities and suggest a programmatic framework that can be used by practitioners to help focus their planning and development of such programs.
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The second paper will build upon the first by mapping how the programmatic framework might be applied in practice in relation to a number of case studies of conflict affected regions around the world.
LEARNING GROUP MEETINGS
Meeting 1- 12th -13th October 2008, Budapest
Meeting 2- 30th October - 3rd November 2009, Cali, Colombia
Meeting 3- 15th -16th May 2010, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
MEMBERship
Marta Arango (co-chair)
Executive Director, CINDE - International Centre for Education and Human Development, Colombia
Marta Arango (co-chair)
Marta Arango was born in Colombia and educated there and in the United States, where she received a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California in Berkeley. With her husband, Glen Nimnicht, she founded CINDE, The International Center for Education and Human Development, a research and development institution, she still directs. CINDE focuses on the development of innovative programs for the healthy physical and psychological development of young children. Marta has become an international advocate of innovative programs for young children and excluded people. In cooperation with several universities CINDE has Master´s programs in Education and Social Development focused on ECCD and a Doctoral Program on Social Sciences Childhood and Youth. She has received a number of awards including the Simon Bolivar award, Colombian highest award for personal contribution to education and was honored by the Inter-American Bank in its 1999 for her contribution to early childhood in the region. She is active in several worldwide ECCD networks like the World Forum for ECCD, Childwatch International and the Consultative Group on ECCD.
Siobhan Fitzpatrick (co-chair)
CEO, Early Years – The Organization for Young Children, Northern Ireland
Siobhan Fitzpatrick (co-chair)
She is Chief Executive of Early Years, formerly known as NIPPA, and has been in post since 1989, having worked previously for the statutory sector within Health and Social Services. Early Years is the largest group based early year's organisation working in Northern Ireland, currently with 1,000 member groups including playgroups, parent & toddler groups, and day care groups, nursery schools, classes and after school provisions.
In her role as Chief Executive, Siobhan has responsibility for policy and long term strategic development, fund management, relationships with the Inter-departmental Group on Early Years, Childcare Partnerships, and Pre-school Education Advisory Groups. She is a member of the Regional Reference Group on the development of a 0-6 Strategy for Northern Ireland (UK), the Obesity Taskforce and the National Child Care Coordinating Committee in the Republic of Ireland. She also manages Cross Border relationships and International partnerships. Siobhan is the European representative on the World Forum Foundation for early years care and education, where she chairs the International Working Group on Peace Building, and is a Board member of International Step by Step Association, an organisation which supports the development of early year's services across Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Siobhan is married and has three grown up daughters.
Alejandro Acosta
Regional Director, Regional Director, International Center for Education and Human Development (CINDE), Colombia
Alejandro Acosta
Ali Shaar
National Programme Officer, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Palestine
Ali Shaar
Batuhan Aydagul
Deputy Coordinator, Mother Child Education Foundation, Turkey
Batuhan Aydagul
Clionagh Boyle
Senior Early Years Specialist, Early Years, Northern Ireland
Clionagh Boyle
Daphna Dinnerman
The Academic Arab College of Education, Israel
Daphna Dinnerman
Eleanor Mearns
Senior Early Years Specialist, Early Years, Northern Ireland
Eleanor Mearns
Hassan Ba'ey
Assistant Professor, University of Babylon, Iraq
Hassan Ba'ey
Ingrid Jones
Director, Partnerë për Fëmijët, Albania
Ingrid Jones
Kevin Fearon
International Project Manager, Early Years, Northern Ireland
Kevin Fearon
Kishor Shrestha
Professor , Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Kishor Shrestha
Lina Hamaoui
Community Development Manager, Economic Social Fund for Development, Lebanon
Lina Hamaoui
Lamiya Sharafkhanova
Inclusive Education Program Manager, Centre for Innovations in Education, Azerbaijan
Lamiya Sharafkhanova
Ljiljana Vasic
Director, Pomoc Deci, Serbia
Ljiljana Vasic
Louise Zimanyi
Director , Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care, Canada
Louise Zimanyi
Margarita de Guardado
Margarita de Guardado
Maria Cristina Garcia
Maria Cristina Garcia
Manuel Manrique
International Center for Education and Human Development (CINDE), Peru
Manuel Manrique
Norma Rudolph
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Norma Rudolph
Pauline Walmsley
Director of Knowledge Exchange, Early Years, Northern Ireland