Global Campaign for Peace Education

UNESCO seeks expert consultant on “the future of the teaching profession”

August 29, 2020 0

UNESCO is seeking qualified experts to explore the future of the teaching profession. Application deadline: September 11, 2020. [continue reading…]

Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments (sign the petition!)

August 29, 2020 0

The Global Campaign for Peace Education is a proud co-sponsor of this petition, an appeal to the nine nuclear governments to each commit to nuclear disarmament. Please join us in signing the petition in celebration today (August 29) of the International Day against Nuclear Tests. [continue reading…]

The Future is Now: A Pedagogical Imperative for Peace Education

August 27, 2020 0

Tony Jenkins argues that COVID-19 reveals that “peace education needs to bring greater emphasis to the future – more specifically, to envisioning, designing, planning and building preferred futures.” [continue reading…]

Hiroshima digital exhibit “Popular Protest in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō”

August 26, 2020 0

This virtual exhibit situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar, antinuclear, and social justice movements from 1945 to 2020. [continue reading…]

Call for Chapters – Performing Arts for Peace: Education and Transformation

August 25, 2020 0

This book will feature the multiple roles that performance art has had in peace education. The contents will forefront instruction worldwide about peace development and maintenance through performance art. Abstracts due: October 1. [continue reading…]

The Specter of Nuclear War: Why the World Lives in its Shadow

August 24, 2020 0

This curriculum, developed by Kathleen Kanet and William James Russell in 1980, provides inquiries to support learners’ critical, moral and ethical reflections on the development of nuclear weapons, their use, and the potential of their abolition. [continue reading…]

COVID-19: Some 23.8 Million More Children Will Drop out of School

August 23, 2020 0

Countries with low human development are facing the brunt of school lockdowns, with more than 85 percent of their students effectively out of school by the second quarter of 2020, according to a United Nations policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on education. [continue reading…]

Louisville, Kentucky’s Peace Education Program: Educating Youth to Manage Disputes without Violence

August 21, 2020 0

The Peace Education Program offers several opportunities for young people to learn about conflict resolution and working together as essential tools for reducing violence and crime. [continue reading…]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020

August 20, 2020 0

Read the full transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic,” where he outlines a vision of a new social contract and a Global New Deal. [continue reading…]