One major project of the Center is the Annual Frederick County Regional Model United Nations. During the Model UN, students step into the shoes of ambassadors from UN member states to debate current issues on the organization’s agenda. While playing their roles as ambassadors, student delegates make speeches, prepare draft resolutions, negotiate with allies and adversaries, resolve conflicts, and navigate the Model UN conference rules of procedure. All this in the interest of promoting global awareness and mobilizing international cooperation to resolve problems that affect countries all over the world such as the AIDS pandemic, Children Soldiers, World Peace and the effects of Tobacco use worldwide. This Regional Model United Nations program is jointly sponsored by UNESCO Center for Peace, the Frederick County Public Schools and Hood College.
The UNESCO Center for Peace International Model United Nations is an overnight, two-week summer camp for students ages 14 to 24, from all over the world. U.S. and international students interact, educate, and learn from each other. During the simulation, participants must employ a variety of communication and critical thinking skills in order to accurately represent the policies of the country they are representing. These skills include public speaking, small group discussion, research, policy analysis, active listening, negotiating, conflict resolution, note taking, and technical writing
The UNESCO Young People's World Heritage Education Programme (WHE Programme) seeks to encourage and enable tomorrow's decision-makers to participate in heritage conservation and to respond to the continuing threats facing our heritage.
Launched in 1994, the WHE Programme provides young people with the necessary knowledge, skills, network and commitment to become involved in heritage protection from local to global levels. New pedagogical approaches are developed to mobilize young people to participate actively in the promotion of World Heritage.
Young people learn about World Heritage sites, about the history and traditions of their own and other cultures, about ecology and the importance of protecting biodiversity. They become aware of the threats facing the sites and learn how common international cooperation can help save heritage. Most importantly, they discover how they can contribute to heritage conservation and make themselves heard.
Building on this successful program, the Center has partnered with educational institutions in the U.S to design a number of educational tours for youth, educators and the general public around the network of world heritage sites in the US and Canada. For information about this program, please contact us at whet@unescocenterforpeace.org
The UNESCO Center for Peace Distinguished Speaker Series was conceived since the first days of the Center in December 2004 with the purpose of bringing the world to Frederick County and Vicinity and enhancing the region’s aura at the global level. Since then, the people have had a unique opportunity to engage and interact with such remarkable speakers as Her Excellency Houda Nonoo, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States; Maria de Fatima Lima Da Veiga, Ambassador of Cape Verde to the United States and Canada, Ambassador Roman Kirn of the republic of Slovenia and Modibo Makalou, senior adviser to Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure. For information about this program, please contact us at speakers@unescocenterforpeace.org
The Center has partnered with regional educational institutions and nonprofits to offer intensive (immersion) English Language, Academic Preparation, Hybrid On-Line classes and American Culture programs in the region. We can provide sponsorship and guardianship for international students. If you are a high school age student between 14 and 18 years of age and interested in exchange program to and/or from the US, this program may be of interest to you. For information about this program, please contact us at exchange@unescocenterforpeace.org