Global Campaign for Peace Education

Winning the Peace: a new US national counter-recruitment effort

December 19, 2016 July 13, 2020 / Action Alerts

Winning the Peace is a call to respond to the state of militarization of American society and even more so in American high schools by The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth.

Teachers share painful lessons with students who have no memories of 9/11

September 12, 2016 August 13, 2020 / News & Highlights

Cheryl Duckworth, an associate professor of conflict resolution and peace education at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, studied teaching about 9/11. She found that many teachers don’t address the subject at all, and those who do often take only a cursory look. “The teachers felt a real patriotic duty to make sure the students knew this event happened, but a lot of what’s being done is commemorating it or honoring first responders,” Duckworth said. “That’s valid, but it doesn’t help the kids ask the critical questions and understand the context of living in a post-9/11 world.”

Teaching Sept. 11 To Students Who Were Born After The Attacks Happened

September 12, 2016 January 12, 2022 / News & Highlights

America’s schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now full of students who weren’t alive 15 years ago. As such, many teachers struggle with whether and how to teach the attacks and their aftermath. According to one survey, only about 20 states include anything in depth about the events of that fateful day in their high school social studies curriculum. And when they are taught, critics say, it’s often through a narrow lens.

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