UNESCO helps countries address the drivers of violent extremism as part of its programme on global citizenship education. It works to strengthen the capacities of national education systems to contribute to national prevention efforts.
This book will examine the ways in which formal, non-formal, and informal educational spaces are reimagining education through community-engaged partnerships and initiatives, aiding scholars and practitioners to gain deeper insight into restructuring and improving education for a more equitable and socially just world. Abstracts due: November 1.
The theme of this Special Bilingual (Spanish/English) Issue “Weaving Together Intercultural Peace Learning” is derived from a collaborative process to formulate the guiding inquiry for the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) Mexico 2022. This theme refers to conceptual understandings and transformative practices for fostering constructive interconnectedness and interdependence for peace learning, which explore the balance of sentipensar (feeling-thinking) and cognitive-emotional processes.
Last month, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame launched its seventh comprehensive report on the implementation of the Colombian Final Accord.
The UNESCO office in Nairobi and UNESCO’s Regional Bureau for Science in Africa’s study, ‘Higher Education, Peace and Security in the Eastern Africa Region’, stresses the urgency of higher education to produce knowledge that is relevant to address the root causes and challenges of peacebuilding in the region.
Research conducted by the International Center for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies found that for women education leaders in religious spaces, education embodied their feminine role of nurturing and transmitting intergenerational values, and at the same time, it rebuilt together a sense of unity among people who were torn by violent conflict.
The Latin American Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies Vol 4 No 8 (2023) features interview with Betty Reardon exploring “education for peace as a tool for integral-cosmological transformation.”
This white paper presented by the Global Campaign for Peace Education provides an overview of the role and potential of peace education for addressing contemporary and emergent global threats and challenges to peace. In doing so, it provides an overview of contemporary threats; outlines the foundations of an effective transformative approach to education; reviews the evidence of the effectiveness of these approaches; and explores how these insights and evidence might shape the future of the field of peace education.
This new publication contains peace education practitioner-scholar focused chapters on transdisciplinary approaches to peace and education research, interventions in educational settings, and alternative ontologies in peace and education work.
The International Journal of Human Rights Education is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal dedicated to the examination of the theory, philosophy, research, and praxis central to the field of human rights education. Volume 7, Issue 1 (2023) is now available.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has launched a new webpage to help observers keep track of the work in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Other resources include Reaching Critical Will’s new paper on “The TPNW and Gender, Feminism, and Intersectionality.”
Localizing climate security risk assessments offer a pathway to address climate-related security risks and potentially prevent those risks from emerging or escalating. This new practical Step-by-Step Guide, produced by GPPAC, is a resource on how to document, assess, and address climate security challenges at the local level.