Social exclusion and violence:
Education for social cohesion

Schools De-Mining Schools

Afghanistan, Bosnia, Egypt, Herzegovina and Mozambique

Schools Demining Schools is an action-oriented project in which schools will not only learn, discuss and publish their debates, but will concretely contribute to solving one of the most horrifying problems of our times: the scourge of landmines. The UN Cyberschoolbus is the online education component of a Global Teaching and Learning Project created in 1996. Its mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations.

In this project, the Cyberschoolbus provides registered schools with materials and sets up weekly interviews, exchanges and question-and-answer sessions with experts and survivors around the world. There is a teaching module, consisting of three units, with activities and resources.
As part of this project students:
- learn about the issue of landmines: the problem, the politics, the solutions
- interact with and interview experts, victim-survivors, professional deminers and students at the schools which have been demined
- raise consciousness about the issue in their own communities
- conduct a fundraising campaign to help rid school grounds of landmines and care for victim-survivors
- participate in the Ban Landmines banner campaign on the World Wide Web.

The main aim of the project is to rally together schools and students around the world so that they may help demine a number of school grounds and playgrounds in mine-infested countries while raising consciousness about the problem in their own communities. The power of information technology allows students to interact, not only with experts but also with students at the school being demined.

Abouali Farmanfarmania
« Ban Mines » project
United Nations
Global Teaching and Learning Project
c/o Cyberschoolbus
One United Nations Plaza
Room DC1-552
New York, NY 10017 - USA
Tel : (212) 963 85 89
Farmanfarmania@un.org
or
Cyberschoolbus@un.org
Website :http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/

Institutional Partners
Ed Gragert
iEARN-USA
475 Riverside Drive
Suite 540 New York, NY 10115
Tel: 212/870-2693
Fax: 212/870-2672
E.mail : iearn@iear.org
Website : http://www.iearn.org/

1997

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize