Educators and youth: the Peace and Justice Studies Association is hosting an International Youth Art and Writing Competition! The theme is Re-Enchantment and we hope people around the world can engage in activities to imagine a better world.
A young Cypriot Phd candidate of the Open University of Cyprus who has organised a scheme fostering peace and connection between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot children is among the finalists for the 2022 Commonwealth Youth Awards.
Invitation for Artists to participate in the collective exposition Art for Peace! Fora da Caixa invites artists to create this collective exhibition, where art and reflection meet and help us to dissolve barriers and disarm our hearts.
This free, February 24 public webinar will present the peace poetry of George Elliott Clarke and Gary Geddes. It is co-sponsored by World BEYOND War and A Different Booklist.
This virtual course, running March 24 to May 19, 2022, the facilitators and participants will explore more deeply why we need the arts in peacebuilding, and together discover multiple kinds of creativity in ourselves and others.
In this interview Ms. Soo Hyun Kim, the Focal Point for Youth Engagement at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), talks about the educational programs launched by UNODA targeting youth.
This virtual exhibit situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar, antinuclear, and social justice movements from 1945 to 2020.
This book will feature the multiple roles that performance art has had in peace education. The contents will forefront instruction worldwide about peace development and maintenance through performance art. Abstracts due: October 1.
For all the peace parents out there looking for activities for your kids (or yourself), the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College has produced a free coloring book!
The InSEA SEMINAR hosted by the Society for Arts Education in Namibia (SAEN) sought to foster dialogue and sharing of praxis and research about education through art on the theme of “Building Social Cohesion through Arts Education.”
Fundación Escuelas de Paz plays a vital part in the emerging multi-level and multi-dimensional approaches to peace-making in Colombia by promoting programs that educate youth on peacebuilding through a multitude of projects. One of their current projects is “Music, Art, and Memory: Youths of Meta Transforming the Social Fabric.”
The anthropologist Tahira Vargas considers expelling students from educational centers because of bad conduct does not solve the problem, but it aggravates it, For this reason she suggests to work with these students through theater, dance and music, in order to build a culture of peace.