Global Campaign for Peace Education

Teachers, youth and education leaders call for concrete steps to ensure transformative education for all

December 13, 2021 0

Education which equips every learner with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to care for each other and the planet and act for the future was at the centre of the 5th UNESCO Forum on transformative education for sustainable development, global citizenship, health and well-being. [continue reading…]

Policy Brief: iTalking Across Generations on Education in Colombia

December 12, 2021 0

From August to November 2021, Fundación Escuelas de Paz organized the first Latin American independent Talking Across Generations on Education (iTAGe) in Colombia, exploring the role of education in promoting youth participation and a culture of peace, as well as implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. [continue reading…]

Required Reading for Global Citizens: Assigned to all Peacelearners on December 10, 1948

December 10, 2021 0

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year’s theme relates to ‘Equality’ and Article 1 of the UDHR – “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” [continue reading…]

How stories of nonviolence can break the cycle of violence

December 10, 2021 0

Violence often provokes more violence. So to break the cycle, to give us a chance at peace, it’s time to tell new stories. [continue reading…]

Reparations: a vessel of healing love and creating a culture of repair

December 9, 2021 0

The enslaved persons sold to all parts of the world, the crimes of “modern slavery”, and today’s widespread exploitation of human labor, call peace educators everywhere to reflect on this pledge from the Grassroots Reparations Campaign and apply it to educating for justice for the abused and exploited in all our respective countries and communities. [continue reading…]

Funding opportunities

Georg Arnhold Senior Fellow for Education for Sustainable Peace: Call for Applications

December 4, 2021 0

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the 2023 Georg Arnhold Senior Fellow for Education for Sustainable Peace. [continue reading…]

In Memory of Olga Vorkunova, Exec. Secretary OF IPRA’S Peace Education Commission

December 3, 2021 0

Olga was very devoted to peace and peace research and was also a great bridge builder between Russian and Western peace researchers. [continue reading…]