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In recent days, just Friday, September 24, an annoying illness prevented me from attend the screening of the film "The Wave" by Dennis Gansel within an interesting and animated film club led by Professor Margaret Giromini, held at the convent of the Capuchin friars of Varese.
Sin: why I would like to take advantage of the reflections of Prof. to relate the experiment of which it is told in the movie (2008) with paramilitary training called "trained to life" that, by decision of the minister Gelmini, are taking off in our public schools.
will be for another time, while on the same subject I offer this wonderful reflection of Pax Christi comuincato contained in the September 26, 2010, released "Mosaic of Peace."

HOPE IS NOT A LEARN TO SHOOT!
There is no future without peace education

child soldier, from the website positanonews.it

In Schools of Italian school was suffering from cuts and measures are unacceptable, they are starting courses paramilitaries, as valid credits, titled "Train yourself to life." Baffled by the incredible decision of the Ministries of Defence and Education, we want to say that this initiative is highly damaging for purposes unrelated to the school and distorts the content of the project "Citizenship and the Constitution" or to other initiatives such as "Peace is made to school. " Among the topics proposed, the outstanding military culture, guns and shooting, the army vehicles, survival in hostile environments, and even the defense nuclear power (a concept no longer acceptable in the international legal landscape as early as 1963, John XXIII considered absurd, "a ratione alienum" and Italy, among others, have ratified the Treaty on the Non-proliferation for global nuclear disarmament).

We are facing a new danger, and antipedagogica Antiform. Teaching-learning to shoot is not for the school of the Italian Republic, where shines the article 11 of the Constitution and where I acquired cases of nonviolent defense also by civilian peace corps that are not properly organized because the government prefers to invest 20 million euro for the "mini naja" (project "Live Defense ", presented as a means of" culture of peace "). They are so cut off funding to the national civil service and perhaps result in dry roots planted in the years '85, '92, '98, 2001 and 2004 in favor of "civil defense and unarmed non-violent."

who fight against the scourge of child soldiers in countries at war can not accept the birth home of "student warriors." Who wants to tackle the bullying can not expect to do so in a paramilitary. In the current climate, based on the rule of fear, they are likely only to spread the idea of \u200b\u200barmed violence as a normal instrument of conflict resolution (with the belief that war is a natural and necessary for coexistence). Consolidate the idea to kill the enemy. Feed the prejudices and create new ones. Manipulate the emotions. Causing many to be the law itself, to apply the law of the jungle. A school that upheld similar projects do not help young people to use the power of reason rather than the reason of force.

E 'Remember the motto nonviolent: If you want peace prepare for peace.

In rejecting these instances, parents, families, school administrators, teachers and students to develop educational programs by connecting to the peace table (for example, "where one person encounters a people" and "My school Peace ", October 4, 2007 agreement signed between the Ministry of Education and the convent of Assisi), re-launch the program of" civilian peace interventions for the prevention and conflict transformation "(started in 2008 under an agreement between seven associations , the City of Florence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and to resume its original setting of "Citizenship and the Constitution."

In many places, the school is and can still be peace laboratory where you can browse maps of nonviolence, pull faces and experiences, to organize solidarity actions or operational considerations on child soldiers, children denied the dignity of women, the death penalty , forgotten conflicts, landmines, chemical or nuclear disarmament, disease and access to drugs, immigration, international law, common good water, fair trade, sobriety, and new lifestyles.

The task of a serene and serious school is to teach peace as building a beautiful and good life, rich in friendships and relationships, inspired by the fresh energy of nonviolence, open to hope. There can be no future without peace education.

Florence, September 26, 2010 Pax Christi
Italy