Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, outlines some of the many ways public schools have become a cultural battlefield even though they should be insulated from politics and culture wars so they are free to fulfill the fundamental purposes of public education: to help nurture the citizens of a democratic society.
The UCLA School of Education, the University of Southern California (USC), and Soka University of America are pleased to organize an academic conference (May 19-22) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s life.
In this piece, Jon Valant argues that the school system we have today in the United States — and our conception of a good school — is mismatched with the needs of our time.
Poetic Offerings for Peace is offering a new resource, aimed at young people, including daily uploads of a poem or a piece of reflective writing, an image, and activity.
During a volatile election, what can be done to preserve democracy and protect election outcomes? How might we respond to fear-mongering, a potential coup, intimidation efforts, and violence with nonviolence? The Global Campaign for Peace Education is compiling a list of resources to support educators in their efforts to teach about the current political moment, prepare students to constructively and nonviolently respond to threats, and to foster a more robust and sustainable democracy for the future.
The Global Campaign for Peace Education stands in solidarity with the Not Too Young To Run Movement and the protestors, many of them youth, who were shot at a recent peaceful #EndSARS protest held in Lagos State calling for an end to police brutality.
It is a triangulation of Consciousness or Awareness, Compassion, and Justice that is helping local communities through the pandemic, and that will sustain us in co-creating a more humane, nonviolent world.
This paper by Dale Snauwaert articulates a normative philosophical justification for Peace Education as a civic duty understood from within the imperatives of democratic political legitimacy.
Admissions to the 2020/2021 edition of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) are open! The program prepares participants for working in national, international, governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations as well as research institutions dealing with human rights and democratisation.
“Freedom! Peace! Justice!” The demands of pro-democracy protesters are belted out at deafening volume and with infectious enthusiasm at a morning assembly at a girls’ school near Khartoum. This revolution is on the curriculum now, at this school at least.
A two-day international conference on the role of Kashmiri women titled “Educating Women for Peace and Democracy – a South Asian Perspective” was held from May 10 to 11 at European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and real sustainability could look like. Could a pluralist commonwealth be the foundation of a peace system?