Global Campaign for Peace Education

Another Year, Another Dollar: Preliminary Reflections on June 12th and Nuclear Abolition

June 5, 2022 June 6, 2022 / News & Highlights

This post introduces “The New Nuclear Era,” a series intended to inspire peace educators to address the urgencies of a renewed civil society movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The series is presented in observation of two 40th anniversaries, significant to both the field of peace education and the nuclear abolition movement.

Hiroshima piano tuner to open ‘A-bombed piano’ museum for peace education

July 5, 2021 July 5, 2021 / News & Highlights

A piano tuner who restores “A-bombed pianos” damaged in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima is building a museum to display six donated pianos and other artifacts. The museum will be strongly focused on peace education.

Introduction 2 Disarmament: Video series

June 1, 2021 May 25, 2021 / Curricula

The #Intro2Disarmament video series consists of 5 short videos that explain how disarmament contributes to a safer, more peaceful and sustainable world in an easy-to-understand way.

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force!

January 22, 2021 January 22, 2021 / News & Highlights

On Jan 22, 2021, more than 75 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the treaty banning these weapons with catastrophic humanitarian consequences enters into force.

Disarmament Education Series: Educating Youth through Art, Technology and Dialogue

November 11, 2020 November 9, 2020 / News & Highlights

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.

Disarmament Education: Peace Education as a New Literacy

November 1, 2020 October 29, 2020 / News & Highlights

In this interview Professor Yoshiro Tanaka, Executive Trustee, Provost and Executive Vice President for Graduate Education and Research at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan, shares with UNAI an educator’s point of view on peace education.

Disarmament education: Youth at the forefront of disarmament dialogue

October 18, 2020 October 16, 2020 / News & Highlights, Youth Focused

United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) talks to experts and youth about disarmament and peace education resources created by the United Nations and educators for students, and how such tools motivate and inspire young people to take concrete action in support of disarmament.

The Specter of Nuclear War: Why the World Lives in its Shadow

August 24, 2020 August 21, 2020 / Curricula

This curriculum, developed by Kathleen Kanet and William James Russell in 1980, provides inquiries to support learners’ critical, moral and ethical reflections on the development of nuclear weapons, their use, and the potential of their abolition.

Young people have a major role to play in ridding the world of nuclear weapons

August 11, 2020 August 11, 2020 / News & Highlights, Youth Focused

Nuclear weapons are still one of the most serious threats to mankind, and the dangers are growing. Young people can play an important role in ensuring that they are eliminated once and for all, says the UN’s top disarmament official, ahead of International Youth Day on 12 August.

No Going Back: What Could the Resumption of Nuclear Testing Mean for A New Normality?

May 30, 2020 June 6, 2020 / Curricula

Any and all progress made toward controlling the proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as their elimination, are placed in jeopardy by the possibility of the resumption of nuclear testing. Peace educators must give serious and immediate attention to this Statement from Abolition 2000 if we are to achieve the renewed normality that we have begun to contemplate.

Disarmament Education: Building a Safer World for All through Education

April 28, 2020 April 28, 2020 / News & Highlights

Investments in disarmament and non-proliferation education can transform youth into agents of positive change and open the door to an unparalleled multiplier effect that offers long-term solutions to the peace and security challenges the world is facing.

CORONA CONNECTIONS: An Inquiry into Plowshares and Pandemics

April 12, 2020 April 12, 2020 / Features, News & Highlights

“Corona Connections: Learning for a Renewed World” is a special series exploring the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways it relates to other peace education issues. This inquiry explores the interrelationships between the causes, characteristics and potential consequences of the threats posed by nuclear weapons and global pandemics.

#disarmament education