Safeguarding

UWC International provides the UWC Common Standards for Safeguarding to support the wellbeing and safety of all members of the UWC community in reflection of UWC’s core values of personal responsibility and integrity, autonomy and mutual responsibility, respect, and compassion.

The ARDEI Committee aims to be a voice for the concerns of UWC community members when it comes to issues related to anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion. It is there to support UWC entities, including UWC schools and colleges, UWC national committees and UWC short courses to appropriately respond to and act on these issues, including on how they receive and respond to reports on experiences of racism or prejudice. The ARDEI Committee also seeks to make UWC’s work in the field of anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion more representative of, accessible for and transparent to those who experience or witness these issues firsthand – including students, alumni, volunteers, staff members or short course participants. It aims to bring about more cross-movement collaboration, so that we can build on each other’s strengths and learn from each other’s weaknesses when it comes to building more anti-racist, equitable and inclusive practices into all our institutions. In turn, the ARDEI Committee hopes to earn the trust of the UWC community as they take on this important work, so that we can make UWC the best it can possibly be together.  The ARDEI Committee is made up of individuals from diverse backgrounds and from across different UWC affiliations, including representatives from UWC national committees, UWC schools and colleges and UWC International governance bodies. They were selected from a pool of applicants from across the movement to take forward UWC’s work in this area. The majority of ARDEI Committee members are alumni of UWC schools and colleges and UWC short courses, and the group is currently led by Maria Ines Kavamura and Andrew Foose,