6th Youth Looking Beyond Disaster (LBD6) Training Workshop, AUSN, Arizona, 17-21 June 2015; 16-19 July 2015.

Call for Papers (pdf), Draft Agenda - updated 10 June (pdf), and Registration form (Word).

Action Plans developed included:

Dinesh Singh (Nepal) - Action Plan on Assessing Youth Mobilization in Nepal Earthquake Response 2015

Ranjan Aryal (Nepal) - Study on Implementation of Eco System Based Adaption-Disaster Risk Reduction measures on River sides of Urban areas in Kathmandu Metropolitan Area

Diwas Chaulagain (Nepal) - Report On The 3rd United Nations World Conference On Disaster Risk Reduction Children And Youth Forum

Other Action Plans may be added

Contact: lookingbd@gmail.com

In LBD6  we added human-made disasters to so-called natural ones, in light of the mining and other types of disaster. The recommendations from the previous LBD forums, as well as the Action Plan of the Third World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai March 2015, were considered. The co-organisers include Eubios Ethics Institute, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), Fulbright Acadmey of Law, Peace and Public Health, Youth Looking Beyond Disaster, Youth Peace Ambassadors International and Youth’s UNESCO Club, among others.



 Faculty and Facilitators included Prof. Darryl Macer, Director, Eubios Ethics Institute and Provost; Director, Institute of Indigenous Peoples and Global Studies, AUSN; former UNESCO Regional Advisor for Asia and the Pacific; Prof. Govindan Parallyl, former Vice-Rector, United Nations University; Director of Institute of Sustainability Science and Knowledge Traditions, AUSN; Experts and Youth Activists from the Ministry of Public Health of Nepal; many other experts from around the world and youth from LBD and Youth Peace Ambassadors (YPA) International from countries all around the world who will share experiences of working to promote the culture of peace and to develop practical action plans.  Good practices will be examined and keys to funding and successful evaluation of a wide range of types of action plan. 

 Included group trip to Grand Canyon, one of seven wonders of the world, and other cultural and natural sites.  There were also  visits to the San Carlos Apache and the Navajo and Hopi Nations, who face many challenges related to disasters. 

Since 2011, Eubios Ethics Institute in cooperation with partner institutions including American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), UNESCO, and others have organized five Youth Looking Beyond Disaster (LBD) Training Workshops across the world with hundreds of youth from many countries.

Intensive Conference on Community and Peace

If you have time, come as a Research Fellow to AUSN, and/or join in the Full Intensive Conference on Community and Peace (See background pdf) . This conference offers advanced training including report writing and projects.  LBD6 Part 1; and LBD6 Part 2; also counts as one of the required residential programs for AUSN students in the Masters in Bioethics and Global Public Health (MBGPH) degree program