Slideshow video | Yale in partnership with a multidisciplinary global team joins forces to ‘create a legacy of sustained peace 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 (vision) at the UNICEF inauguration of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium.
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Slideshow video | On the occasion of the UN High-level Forum on The Culture of Peace, Yale University along with members of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium, UNICEF and the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace organized a luncheon with distinguished guests to discuss the transformative solution to peace is through supporting the positive early childhood development of young children, its scientific evidence and good practice.
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The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions, which took place July 19th to 22nd in Telluride Colorado, was the first large-scale international conference of its kind dedicated to scientific inquiry into compassion. The conference convened a unique group of leading world experts in the fields of altruism, compassion, and service to present their latest research. This talk was part of panel Neurotransmitters, Neuropeptides, Genes and Compassion by Sue Carter, Ph.D. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_0ZloXZYlw)
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How Early Experience Exerts a Sustained Influence on Neuronal Function? Michael Meaney, W. Thomas Boyce (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=wkk9WGpCxto)
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In the first years of life, neurons in our brain form new connections at the astounding rate of 700–1000 per second – a pace that is not repeated again. But when the quality of key factors – including in our health, nutrition, environment and sources of support – is poor, child development is seriously affected, sometimes irreversibly. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=seI9GqK4I5U)
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One of the most difficult things for fathers to realize… is how irreplaceable they are. See three dads who are positively impacting their children’s lives. Just by being dads. Distinctly Dad. A film by Johnson & Johnson. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=ukz74aLMvhc)
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Dr. Pruett will address the disconnect between how society and fathers themselves often perceive the father’s role, and how children actually perceive it – noting that, in fact, children know more than anyone how irreplaceable fathers truly are. He will also discuss how critical it is to help fathers embrace their important and unique role as caregivers. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Cw39S3sh5D4)
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James F. Leckman, MD, PhD, Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry, remotely presents on the Transformative Power of Responsive Parenting to the Founding Forum of the Arab Network for Childhood, Amman, Jordan.
The vision of the Arab Network for Early Childhood Development (ANECD) is: Realization of development potentials of each and all young children with the support of families, communities and states in all Arab countries.
The mission of ANECD is mobilization of expertise and resources for the full development of every young child and for a better future.
The general objective of ANECD is the production and dissemination of knowledge, sharing best practices, and advocating for policies that support the care and development of young children.
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By Jake Silverstein
Nearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution — more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. This multimedia journey in text, photographs and virtual reality tells the stories of three of them.
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