Yurii Sheliazhenko has been falsely accused of justifying Russian aggression and faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence. Yuri argues that “structural, existential, fundamentalist militarism poisons our minds and our everyday lives.”
It feels more important than ever to teach peace, but it can seem like it’s never been harder. How can we be brave educators? Ellis Brooks from Quakers in Britain shares his thoughts on some of the issues schools are facing.
Recent legislation has led to conflicts in educational institutions, suppressing discussions on diversity and promoting cultural and structural violence. Addressing these issues through peace education can transform schools into spaces of enlightenment, understanding, and peace, emphasizing respect and collaboration across cultures.
By embracing peace education and creating peaceable classrooms, we can foster individuals equipped to resolve conflicts peacefully and committed to promoting peace, tolerance, and understanding in a diverse and interconnected world.
By encouraging students to take and live by these pledges, schools can help to create a more peaceful world for everyone.
This OpEd explores how the teaching-learning processes in our academic institutions can be made peace-oriented and how it can become the shaping vision of all academic and non-academic activities.
Dale Snauwaert argues that at the core of political efficacy is a sense of justice, and therefore, a core aim of peace education should be the development of a sense of justice in both future leaders and citizens. Robert Reich’s reflections on the “common good” as a shared political ethic and conception of justice gives significant credence to this core purpose of peace education.
According to the Brookings Institution, unless we anchor ourselves and define where we are coming from and where we want to go as societies and institutions, discussions on systems transformation will continue to be circuitous and contentious.
The education system is critical in moulding India’s future generations, and pedagogies can develop an academically strong and morally upright society by incorporating ethics into the curriculum.
This month in an unprecedented move, over 100 international medical journals came together in a joint editorial realizing the urgency of the moment to warn about the dangers of nuclear war.
Teachers for Peace is a new, Australian organisation challenging the influence of the global weapons industry on school STEM curricula, and advocating for policies that promote peace.
Emina Frljak stresses that education can be a space for nurturing and developing cultures of peace or cultures of war. Peace education is a way to nurture our relationships with one another, save humanity, and take care of and preserve this Planet for those who will come after us since we are only guests for a short time.