An overlooked element in the COVID experience is how it can lead us into reflections on the human connections that carry us through the suffering, giving us an actual physical sense of being members of one human family, capable of caring for each other, as we must if the family is to survive. This post is a vivid instance of such an experience.
Students in Japan organized an exhibit focusing on how the adversities youth have faced in midst of the pandemic have impacted their view of the injustices of the Holocaust.
Facing History & Ourselves provides activities to guide students to conduct an interview as a way to reflect on the events of 2020 and connect in a time when travel and gatherings are restricted.
Safiqul Islam argues that educators now face the challenge of how to assess the readiness of students to resume in-school education when schools open.
The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding, in partnership with the Korean Society of Education for International Understanding, hosted a virtual Dialogue with Dr. Betty Reardon on the occasion of the publication of the Korean translation of Dr. Reardon’s book, “Comprehensive Peace Education.”
Sport and physical activity can help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and wellbeing of people. Investing in sport programmes and policies can build global resilience to deal with future global shocks. A recent report from the United Nations Secretary-General details how.
The Nigeria Network and Campaign for Peace Education hosted a special global webinar on the theme of “Rethinking the Current Education Curriculum and Methodology amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic” on September 9, 2020. Video from the event is now available.
Last year, we paid tribute to the 20th Anniversary of the 1999 Declaration of the Program of Action on a Culture of Peace. Today, we need to ask ourselves if we had genuinely carried out our moral responsibilities to transition from a culture of hatred and violence to a culture of tolerance and peace.
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.”
Countries with low human development are facing the brunt of school lockdowns, with more than 85 percent of their students effectively out of school by the second quarter of 2020, according to a United Nations policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on education.
Read the full transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic,” where he outlines a vision of a new social contract and a Global New Deal.
Previous articles in our Corona Connections series have focused mainly on the injustices and dysfunction of global structures that have been made undeniably evident by the pandemic. In this article, we call the attention of peace educators to the fact COVID has made many of those injustices more severe.