Video review of the 1st anniversary of the Normandy Chair of Excellence for Peace

Sébastien Goupil is Secretary-General of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO The Normandy Chair for Peace is the perfect embodiment of the duty of moral and intellectual solidarity that must unite peoples among themselves and with future generations. It perfectly embodies the duty to educate, inform, mobilize, and organize in order to provoke the reflections and changes that are now necessary in our societies.

Professor and Doctor Honoris Causa Antonio Benjamin is a judge at the Brazilian High Court (STJ) and at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He is also President of the Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and Secretary General of the International Advisory Council for Environmental Justice of UNEP.

The Atupama project, supported by the Normandy Chair for Peace, aims to raise awareness among students in the Normandy region about the Sapara cause, an indigenous people of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, classified as a UNESCO intangible heritage. An educational kit is currently being prepared to accompany a future intercultural meeting between a young Sapara indigenous leader, students and the general public through a cultural exhibition in the Normandy Region. Agathe Neveu, at the origin of the project, shares her story.

Director, journalist, photographer, author, Gert-Peter Bruch has been committed to the protection of the Amazon rainforest for over 25 years and the first international campaign of Cacique Raoni. He is the founder of Planète Amazone, which supports indigenous peoples in their international fight against deforestation and has organized numerous field and awareness campaigns, including three international tours of Cacique Raoni.

Lucas Taffin is president and co-founder of the Human Conet association. Like many young people of his generation, it is important for him to be able to take his destiny into his own hands and become an actor of his own future. The climate issue is a global issue, and our response must be up to this challenge. The world is globalized, we know it, we are interdependent, we learn it, we must move forward united, it is the only solution.

Shannon Peters – We are a handful of volunteers from around the world who have decided that the time for talk is over. We will use the power of the law to ask the world’s governments a simple question: What are they doing to protect future generations? ​In the nineties, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on nuclear weapons. Today, another threat has captured the headlines – climate change.

Simply, we want an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the rights of future generations. Our team includes everyone from student activists to artists to senior attorneys. Young people of all nations are welcome to join us, and members of our team hail from around the world, making this a truly global movement.