Nonkilling Mexico: WHO and UNAM
The Center for Global Nonkilling will participate in several events in Mexico in the coming weeks (including the WHO Violence Prevention Meeting), sharing the nonkilling approach with academics, students, politicians and civil movements from around the country.
In September 27 CGNK Director Joám Evans Pim will deliver a lecture on Nonkilling Futures (“No mates nuestros futuros”) at the Center for Political Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The “Seminar on Future Studies” is organized by CGNK Futures Studies Research Committee member Dr. Guillermina Baena Paz and the World Futures Studies Federation.
In November 13-14 the Center will also participate in the 6th Milestones in a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Meeting, organized by the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance, of which CGNK is an associate. CGNK also serves in the WHO-VPA working group dedicated to developing an agenda on research priorities in the field of violence prevention.
The theme of the 6th Milestones Meeting is “Towards measurable violence prevention targets”. The scope includes child maltreatment; youth violence; intimate partner violence; sexual violence, and elder maltreatment. It will focus on consolidating global, regional and national efforts to strengthen the measurement of violence and violence prevention policies, programmes and laws, with a view to defining measurable violence prevention targets in the years ahead. During the meeting, we will make plans to increase action, political support and funding for violence prevention worldwide. Keynote speakers will include senior government policy makers and world experts. The meeting will be held in English and Spanish.
Participants will be policy-makers, high-level planners, and others with decision-making and follow-up authority at local, regional, and international level, as well as violence prevention researchers. In total, some 350 participants are expected to attend.
