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Peace Child International is a UK based charity focusing on youth entrepreneurship, employability, sustainable development and youth empowerment. It has United Nations Economic and Social Council Consultative status and promotes the concept of youth-led development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peace Child International - Empowering Young People )〕 ==History== Peace Child International began during the Cold War as a musical, based on Bernard Benson's The Peace Book, aimed at resolving conflict between the USA and USSR, and at bringing youth from both countries into contact. The first performance was in October 1981 at the Royal Albert Hall, with Susannah York as the narrator. The musical was then taken to the United States, where it was premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in December 1982. The core of the musical was composed by David Gordon and written by David Woollcombe, but it was re-written and customised by the cast wherever it was performed.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us - Our History> )〕 Since its debut the musical has been used in conflict resolution efforts in Azerbaijan and Armenia, Central America, Cyprus, the former Yugoslavia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UG Serbia History )〕 India, Israel〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peace Child Israel )〕 and Northern Ireland. After the Earth Summit in June 1992, Peace Child produced a children's version of Agenda 21, ''Rescue Mission: Planet Earth''. The book was designed, edited and aimed at young people and went on to be translated into 23 languages. Since this point, Peace Child has focused mainly on sustainable development issues, and produced a number of further publications on the subject with UN agencies. Peace Child has also shifted its focus to an emphasis on youth unemployment, developing a number of training programmes in Europe, Africa and India to increase employability skills in young people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peace Child International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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