Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC)

Mission

To create a legacy of sustained peace by drawing on the transformative power of early childhood development by building a global movement that values the role of young children and families as agents of change in peace building

About

The Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC) brings together global leaders in effective practice, new and emerging knowledge, finance, media, philanthropy and international policy to create a legacy of sustained peace, drawing on the transformative force of early childhood development (ECD). A multidisciplinary Yale University team has joined forces with these leaders to form the ECPC, a loose affiliation of global partners from multiple sectors, institutions and organizations engaged in peace building in early childhood development.

Launch of the Official ECPC Website & ECPC Conference Video Series

The official ECPC communications platform was officially launched by University Webmaster for Yale, Franz Joseph Hartl, JD, on 29 November 2018 at the ECPC Open House Conference "Early Childhood Development Advances The Culture of Peace". The conference, hosted at Yale University featured 25 world champions in evidence-based science and practice, education, human migration, web technology and media. A 14-part video series was produced, featuring talks by these experts who pave a road to hope and build pathways to peace through the transformative power of children and families.

ECPC Origin & Timeline

From 2009 - present: Building a generation of reconciliation

2013 ECPC Inaugural Event

Launch of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC) with 140 partners from multiple sectors (civil society, the social and mass media, government officials, multi and bilateral agencies, practitioners and academia), agencies and countries

2014-16 ECPC Events & Activities

Main ECPC events that have served to further add momentum to the global movement that values the well-being of children and families as an agent of change for peace.

Contact ECPC

Image: Yale delegation at the ECPC Inauguration

_{L-R Standing: Pia Rebello Britto, PhD (CSC); Omri Wiseman (CSC), James F. Leckman, MD (CSC), Daniel Tam-Clairborne, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH (EPH), Walter Gilliam, PhD (CSC), Seharish Gillani, Gerald O'Dowd (Arts & Sci), Kerry Ann Dobies (FASPSY); Adrian Cerezo, PhD; C. Brandon Ogubunufor, MD; Yanki Yazgan, MD (CSC), Kyle D. Pruett, MD (CSC/Sch Nursing)}
_{L-R Seated: Catherine Panter-Brick, PhD (Anthropology, Health & Global Affairs, EPH), Jiarui Wang (ACSWS), Rima Salah, PhD (CSC), Maria R. Reyes, PhD (CSC), Anna Zonderman, MPH (CSC); N. Shemrah Fallon (CSC); Angelica Ponguta, PhD (CSC)}

_{Photo credit: N. Shemrah Fallon and Eva Lotta Schiermeyer}

A Culture of Peace

Introduction to Consortium

"Dear Colleagues and friends: Your science, your knowledge, your practical experience, your dedication to the well being of children and their families globally, helped to orchestrate a global movement for peace, that values the role of young children and families as agents of change in peace building. This is changing the tide of violence, that is marking, our world today."

Rima Salah, PhD, Rima Salah, PhD, Adjunct Faculty Yale University Child Study Center, former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, former Deputy Special Representative of the Sec-Gen, UN Mission in Central African Rep and Chad; ECPC Launch Event 20 Sept 2013

PPT | Changing the Tide of Violence

The Impact of Positive Parenting

By Rima Salah, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center

7-Part Video Series - A New Paradigm for Peace | Early Childhood Development: The Transformative Power for Peace

1. A New Paradigm for Peace: The Transformative Power of ECD for Peace

Video slideshow / United Nations HQ NYC / Special Lunch Event at the U.N. Culture of Peace Forum / 9 Sept 2014 / Distinguished panelists & guests

4. Articulating the problem: Transformative ECD solutions for peace / UN Culture of Peace Event

Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative is high-level event panelist. He speaks to an audience of distinguished guests on the problems of increasing global violence and conflict and the importance of breaking inner and outer walls of discrimination and prejudice. He champions real solutions through the transformative power of positive early childhood development (ECD) for sustained peace, based on scientific evidence and good practice.

5. UNICEF: ECD, Resilience & Peace Building / UN Culture of Peace Event

United Nations HQ NYC, 9 September 2014 - Dr. Christian Salazar Volkmann, Deputy Programme Director UNICEF, addresses an audience of distinguished guests with a three part discussion on the importance of providing to children who are living in conflict and crisis situations - programmatic interventions, political work on child rights, and provision of basic social services.

6. Scientific evidence: Early developmental neurobiology & peace / UN Culture of Peace Event

United Nations NYC, 9 September 2014 - James F. Leckman, MD, PhD, Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry, speaks on the role of early child development and familial relationships in the process of peace-building and conflict resolution, and the need to explore novel approaches to translate science-based knowledge into concrete and sustainable actions within peace building initiatives.

7. Good Practice: Programmatic evidence on ECD & peace building / UN Culture of Peace Event

United Nations NYC, 9 September 2014 - Siobhan Fitzpatrick, PhD, CEO of Early Years (Ireland) shares key programmatic evidence in support of positive early childhood development (ECD) and peace building with an audience of distinguished guests, on the occasion of the UN High-Level Forum on The Culture of Peace.