Global Campaign for Peace Education

Don’t Say Nothing: addressing race in the classroom

November 30, 2016 July 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

Many black and brown students are educated in school systems and classrooms where they, despite making up the racial majority, are taught how to understand a world by a staff comprised of a powerful minority. When their teachers choose to remain silent about moments of racial tension or violence—violence that may well touch students’ own communities or families—these children are overtly reminded of their inferior place in society.

A guide to tweeting for peace and social change

November 28, 2016 July 27, 2020 / Publications, Trainings / Workshops

This resource guide developed by Craig Zelizer of PCDN provides an introduction to Twitter, discusses the role it can and has played in peacebuilding and social change and offers key resources to begin actively using the platform.

New Book – Peace Education in a Conflict-Affected Society: An Ethnographic Journey

November 27, 2016 July 27, 2020 / Publications

Peace education initiatives have been subject to heated public debate and so far the complexities involved have not been fully understood. This multilayered analysis examines how teachers negotiate ideological, pedagogical and emotional challenges in their attempts to enact a peace education policy. Focusing primarily on the case study of conflict-affected Cyprus, Michalinos Zembylas, Constadina Charalambous and Panayiota Charalambous situate the Cypriot case within wider theoretical and methodological debates in the field and explore the implications of their findings for theory and practice.

Panel Discussion: The role of education in preventing violent extremism

November 26, 2016 July 27, 2020 / Activity Reports

Arigatou International Geneva in collaboration with UNESCO and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations in Geneva, organized a side event to the 33rd Human Rights Council entitled “Learning to Live Together: The role of education in preventing violent extremism.”

Apply Now: The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program for Iraqi and U.S. high school students

November 25, 2016 January 12, 2022 / Funding opportunities, Trainings / Workshops, Youth Focused

The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program for Iraqi and U.S. high school students, Iraqi undergraduate students, and Iraqi adult mentors is pleased to extend this fully-funded scholarship opportunity to talented and dedicated young leaders and adult educators from Iraq and the United States to apply for a summer leadership program in the United States. Be sure to apply now: application deadlines begin December 1, 2016.

A Soldier’s Life: a film developed by students questioning military enlistment

November 24, 2016 July 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

This video, “A Soldier’s Life,” is geared to high school students to discourage them from enlisting in the military. All of the production staff who created the ten minute video are students, ranging from middle school to college.

Tips and Resources for Better Thanksgiving Conversations

November 23, 2016 July 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation has developed Six Tips for Thoughtful Holiday Conversations. For many people, the Thanksgiving holiday this week and the holiday season around the corner bring the likelihood of difficult conversations and out-right fights around the dinner table. Talk of politics and other hot topics can be tricky to navigate with family and friends – especially when we don’t see eye to eye – and it seems like the loud, divisive election season might only make holiday conflicts harder to avoid this year.

Intensified education on Martial Law pushed in public, private schools (Philippines)

November 23, 2016 July 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

Philippines – An intensified education on Martial Law and its threats to democracy is being pushed on public and private schools. Ifugao lawmaker Teodoro Baguilat Jr. said this amid “growing attempts to revise history and clear the (former strongman) Ferdinand Marcos Sr. of culpability for the widespread violation of human rights during his reign of terror.” Baguilat noted that education is important in understanding important issues. “It is also through education that the people can protect themselves from history repeating itself and the painful cost of allowing absolute rule by a dictator being exacted yet again,” he said.

Book Review: The language of peace, communicating to create harmony

November 23, 2016 July 27, 2020 / Book reviews

“The language of peace, communicating to create harmony,” edited by Rebecca L. Oxford, is a volume in the Information Age Press series: Peace Education, edited by Laura Finley & Robin Cooper. This review, authored by Mumbua Simon, is one in a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education and In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice toward promoting peace education scholarship.

Call for Undergraduate Papers: Care as a Humanizing Act in Education

November 23, 2016 July 27, 2020 / Publications

#CritEdPol, Swarthmore College’s Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, announces an open call for undergraduate papers/projects for their next issue with the theme of care mobilized as a necessary and humanizing act within education policy. Preliminary submissions due December 10, 2016.

Month: November 2016