Join the Global Campaign for Peace Education!
Help us grow the global movement advancing and advocating for peace education.
The Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) was launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in 1999. It is a non-formal, international organized network that promotes peace education among schools, families, and communities to transform the culture of violence into a culture of peace. The Campaign has two goals:
- To build public awareness and political support for the introduction of peace education into all spheres of education, including non-formal education, in all schools throughout the world.
- To promote the education of all teachers to teach for peace.

What can education concretely (and realistically) do to mitigate contemporary threats and foster lasting peace?
This white paper provides an overview of the role and potential of peace education for addressing contemporary and emergent global threats and challenges to peace. In doing so, it provides an overview of contemporary threats; outlines the foundations of an effective transformative approach to education; reviews the evidence of the effectiveness of these approaches; and explores how these insights and evidence might shape the future of the field of peace education.
Latest News, Research, Analysis & Resources
A Pan-African School of Peace opening in Côte d’Ivoire
International Women’s Peace Group keen to empower, bring about women peace leaders in Ethiopia
The Peace Education Model in Developing a Peaceful Classroom Climate: Lesson-learned from Indonesia
Educating for peace: Equipping students with capacity to resolve conflicts non-violently (Jammu & Kashmir)
Talking To Kids About Disabilities
How to build peace? On the occasion of the International Peace Day a dialogue between students and experts

Mapping Peace Education
“Mapping Peace Education” is a global research initiative coordinated by the GCPE. It is an open-access, online resource for peace education researchers, donors, practitioners, and policy-makers who are looking for data on formal and non-formal peace education efforts in countries around the world to develop contextually relevant and evidence-based peace education to transform conflict, war, and violence.
