Social/ Educational Development Dialogue "Charcha #11" - Cecilia Barbieri (UNESCO HQ-Paris)
Channel: Communications IIMPACT
Date: 2020-08-09

From May 2020, IIMPACT launched "Charcha", a series of dialogues taking place every fortnight and inviting an educational/ social development thinker and practitioner to interact with the IIMPACT and Partner NGO team. The duration of each "Charcha" would be under 2 hours. 
 
The 11th Charcha was on “Role of education in building peace and inculcating a feeling of global citizenship among children” led by Cecilia Barbieri, Chief of Section of Global Citizenship and Peace Education at UNESCO HQ-Paris. 
 
Cecilia was in charge of the Education 2030 Section in the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. She has worked as an Education Specialist with UNESCO since 1999, mainly in Africa and Asia including 2 years in India where she headed the Education Section of the Cluster office of UNESCO-India. She has worked in the field of technical and vocational training and institutional capacity building and has been actively engaged for many years in the culture of peace, human rights, and intercultural education.