Global Campaign for Peace Education

Discrepancia Bienvenida [Discrepancy Welcome!]

April 30, 2020 0

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

Disarmament Education: Building a Safer World for All through Education

April 28, 2020 2

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. [continue reading…]

Healthcare not Warfare (GDAMS 2020 Statement)

April 27, 2020 0

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. [continue reading…]

From Emergency to Emergence

April 26, 2020 1

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. [continue reading…]

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

April 24, 2020 0

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. [continue reading…]

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

April 24, 2020 1

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. [continue reading…]

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

April 23, 2020 0

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. [continue reading…]

Learning from Distinctions: Climate Change and COVID-19

April 22, 2020 2

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. [continue reading…]

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

April 21, 2020 0

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.'” [continue reading…]

Free Online Peace and Conflict Resolution Sample Courses

April 20, 2020 0

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. [continue reading…]