Residential weekend for student leaders

Sarath Malalasekera

The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Educational and Research is organising a residential weekend for student leaders on Peace, the Environment and Human Future to be held at the Subodhi Institute of Integral Education, Piliyandala from November 28 to 30.

Sixty student leaders have been selected for the course from various Universities across the country. The seminar is titled ‘Training For Trusteeship’ and will emphasise the duties of trusteeship in regard to peace, the environment and human future.

Topics to be covered will include philosophical and religious teachings on these matters and practical steps which can be taken towards achieving these ends. Participants will be expected to carry to their fellow students the knowledge and ideas they gather during this intensive residential weekend. This camp is being held in collaboration with the Youth Link Movement of Sri Lanka, Justice Weeramantry said.

The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER) founded by Judge C. G. Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice, Emeritus Professor Monash University and former Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, has centred its work mainly in the areas of International Law, Peace Education and cross cultural understanding - these being the ‘three pillars’ of the centre. The UNESCO Peace Prize and the alternative Nobel Prize (The Right Livehood Award) were two recent International awards which were conferred in 2006 and 2007 respectively on Judge Weeramantry in recognition of the work carried out by the Centre.