Global Campaign for Peace Education

Discrepancia Bienvenida [Discrepancy Welcome!]

April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 / Curricula

“Discrepancy Welcome!” is a pedagogical guide providing tools for teachers to encourage and stimulate controversial dialogues in the classroom.

Disarmament Education: Building a Safer World for All through Education

April 28, 2020 April 28, 2020 / News & Highlights

Investments in disarmament and non-proliferation education can transform youth into agents of positive change and open the door to an unparalleled multiplier effect that offers long-term solutions to the peace and security challenges the world is facing.

Healthcare not Warfare (GDAMS 2020 Statement)

April 27, 2020 April 26, 2020 / News & Highlights

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has shown the world where humanity’s priorities should lie. This major attack on people’s security across the world shames and discredits global military expenditures and prove them an outrageous waste and loss of opportunities.

From Emergency to Emergence

April 26, 2020 April 26, 2020 / Opinion

David Korten argues that COVID-19 is an unprecedented opportunity to rethink how our beliefs, values, and institutions shape our relationships. We can create a world that works for everyone or face a future that no longer works for anyone.

It’s a Matter of Scale and Imagination: COVID, Nuclear Devastation, & Climate Catastrophe

April 24, 2020 April 23, 2020 / News & Highlights

The letter from Helen Young is a response to “Plowshares and Pandemics,” an earlier article in our Corona Connections series that highlighted Helen’s film, “The Nuns the Priests and the Bombs.” Helen illuminates the great difference in scale of the consequent damage and the long-term effects inherent in the existential threats of nuclear weapons in comparison to COVID-19.

New curriculum: Navigating Crisis, Uncertainty, and Technology in a Global Pandemic

April 24, 2020 April 24, 2020 / Curricula

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has published a new three-part curriculum called “Navigating Crisis, Uncertainty, and Technology in a Global Pandemic.” These lessons are designed to help middle school teachers and parents address many of the new and immediate needs of students in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Colonialism, poverty and corruption: Some thoughts on peace education to address these evils during the COVID19 pandemic (Puerto Rico)

April 23, 2020 April 22, 2020 / News & Highlights

What can peace education provide given the complex scenario of Puerto Rico and the COVID response? Anita Yudkin puts forth some ideas on addressing the pandemic based on general principles of educating for peace, in its interrelationship with human rights and sustainability.

Learning from Distinctions: Climate Change and COVID-19

April 22, 2020 April 22, 2020 / News & Highlights

The distinctions and similarities between the problematics of COVID-19 and climate change illuminated in this article by Úrsula Oswald Spring intimates a holistic, planetary and ecological worldview that might serve as the basis for learning for a renewed world rooted in human dignity and realized through social and environmental justice.

Pandemics, social conflict and armed conflict: How does COVID-19 affect vulnerable populations?

April 21, 2020 January 14, 2022 / News & Highlights

COVID-19 reveals multiple threats in countries with latent armed and social conflicts, such as Colombia. A prominent journalist notes that rural Colombia “is a country in perpetual ‘quarantine.'”

Free Online Peace and Conflict Resolution Sample Courses

April 20, 2020 April 20, 2020 / Academic courses / programs, News & Highlights

Beginning on April 20th, the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University will be offering FREE week-long online sample courses for their most popular areas of study.

Month: April 2020