Global Campaign for Peace Education

National Peace Council educates students on peace processes (Ghana)

May 31, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Activity Reports

A total of 285 school children in Ghana have been introduced to peace education, exploring issues and topics of tolerance, diversity, and conflict analysis.

Incremental Transformations: Education for Resiliency in Post-War Sri Lanka

May 31, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Research

There is growing evidence to support the relationship between levels of gender inequality in a society and its potential for conflict. Positive attitudes to gender equality in and through education strengthen social cohesion; consequently, there is a need for gender-transformative education for peacebuilding.

New publication: “Education for Peace in a Multi-Religious World: A Christian Perspective”

May 30, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Activity Reports, Publications

At a conference with the theme “Promoting Peace Together” held in Geneva on 21 May, religious leaders launched the publication “Education for Peace in a Multi-Religious World: A Christian Perspective,” jointly prepared by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Council of Churches (WCC).

A Special Message from Betty Reardon: an update on the $90K for 90 Campaign

May 28, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Features

Peace education has had much to celebrate as we come to the end of the second trimester of the $90K for 90 Campaign. There have been over 90 contributors thus far! This response has been a true validation of our work in peace education.

Betty Reardon: “Meditating on the Barricades”

May 28, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Curricula, Features

In this reflective article, Betty Reardon argues that one of the current challenges to the field of peace education is to transform our political discourse as an essential process in the transformation of our present global realities, the ultimate purpose of an authentically just peace.

Playing on the same team for a peaceful future (Israel)

May 27, 2019 March 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

The Israel Football Association (IFA) and the Jaffa-based Peres Center for Peace and Innovation signed an agreement to collaborate on a unique nationwide project, which will build connections between Jewish and Arab boys and girls through soccer.

The Development, Conflict and Security Nexus: Development Education as Peace-Building

May 26, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Research

Across the globe, with security at the forefront of governmental action, education has remained a counter-balance in an attempt to build peaceful interdependent societies.

Seminar explores how education institutions can be models for peace (India)

May 25, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Activity Reports

Youth group Peace Channel conducted a seminar on the topic of role of educational institutions in building ‘sustainable peace’. The event, carrying the slogan “peace to all,” was conducted for teachers and heads of the institutions.

Statement of Support for Ayşe Gül Altınay: Turkish Academic for Peace Sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in prison

May 23, 2019 March 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

In a hearing held on May 21, 2019, Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in prison on the charge of “knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization as a non-member” for having signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” prepared by the Academics for Peace. In Turkey and elsewhere, activists and thinkers are consistently under attack, and they need our support. As a lifelong feminist and peace activist, Ayse continues to advocate for non-violent protest and dignity in the fact of aggression.

Global Campaign Coordinator Receives Award for work on Educating for the Abolition of War

May 23, 2019 March 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

On May 15, Tony Jenkins, Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education, received the Educators’ Challenge Award from the Global Challenges Foundation in partnership with the London School of Economics (LES) Institute of Global Affairs.

Month: May 2019