Global Campaign for Peace Education

Global Campaign for Peace Education nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

February 8, 2021 1

The Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination recognizes the campaign as the world’s most dynamic, influential, and far-reaching project in peace education, the sine qua non for disarmament and the abolition of war. [continue reading…]

Securing Democracy in a Conflicted Election: Resources for Educators

October 25, 2020 1

During a volatile election, what can be done to preserve democracy and protect election outcomes? How might we respond to fear-mongering, a potential coup, intimidation efforts, and violence with nonviolence? The Global Campaign for Peace Education is compiling a list of resources to support educators in their efforts to teach about the current political moment, prepare students to constructively and nonviolently respond to threats, and to foster a more robust and sustainable democracy for the future. [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…]

CORONA CONNECTIONS: An Inquiry into Plowshares and Pandemics

April 12, 2020 0

“Corona Connections: Learning for a Renewed World” is a special series exploring the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways it relates to other peace education issues. This inquiry explores the interrelationships between the causes, characteristics and potential consequences of the threats posed by nuclear weapons and global pandemics. [continue reading…]

The virus of “crisis nationalism”

April 1, 2020 0

Werner Wintersteiner argues that the Corona crisis reveals that globalization has so far brought interdependence without mutual solidarity. The virus is spreading globally, and combating it will require a global effort, but the states are reacting with national tunnel vision. In contrast, a perspective of global citizenship would be appropriate to the global crisis. [continue reading…]

The Nail Problem: Patriarchy and Pandemics

March 24, 2020 1

Many in peace and justice movements have called for using this critical time to reflect, plan and learn our way to a more positive future. One contribution we, peace educators might make to this process is reflection on the possibilities for alternative language and metaphors toward which peace linguists and feminists have long tried to persuade us to focus our attention. [continue reading…]

Peace Education and Transformative Education: Highlights from CTAUN 2020 at the UN

March 4, 2020 0

On February 28, 2020 the Committee on Teaching About the United Nations held its 21st annual conference at the United Nations on the theme of “War No More.” Tony Jenkins, Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education spoke at the event on peace education and transformative education. Video from the event is now available. [continue reading…]

Season’s Greetings to All Peace Education Practitioners, Advocates and Supporters

December 23, 2019 0

To any and all of you who may be celebrating an annual holiday, good wishes for a joyous one, and for the less violent and more just world to which we aspire as we offer each other solidarity in all we do to achieve it. [continue reading…]

There is No Peace without Peace Education!

August 2, 2019 2

70 educators, academics & activists, representing more 33 different country identities and affiliations, gathered at the 2019 International Institute on Peace Education in Nicosia, Cyprus from July 21-28, 2019. As an act of solidarity with peace educators from around the world, participants declared that there is no peace without peace education. [continue reading…]