Paper cranes made by elementary school students in Cuba were presented recently at the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park with the help of local students.
Since 1963, Hiromu Morishita has conducted an annual survey of high school students’ attitudes toward the atomic bombing and with fellow teachers created a supplementary reader for peace education that has been regularly updated.
IANSA invites you to participate in the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence from 26 June to 2 July 2023. IANSA’s theme this year is “Promoting Dialogue and a Culture of Peace: Taking Action to End Gun Proliferation and Violence!” by encouraging, as appropriate, education and public awareness programmes to discuss the problems of the illicit trade of SALW in all its aspects and to develop viable solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.