Global Campaign for Peace Education

End war, build peace

March 5, 2022 0

Ray Acheson argues that to confront the compounding crises in Ukraine, war and war profiteering must end, nuclear weapons must be abolished, and we must confront the world of war that has been deliberately constructed at the expense of peace, justice, and survival. [continue reading…]

Everyone will lose unless humanity makes ‘peace with the planet’, declares Guterres

July 15, 2021 0

UN Secretary-General  António Guterre, among other leaders, advocates for proactive environmental justice in the face of climate change. [continue reading…]

Movement Generation’s Course Correction: Just Transition In The Age Of COVID-19

May 7, 2020 0

Movement Generation is offering a four-session online course series that helps reframe the COVID-19 crisis. Sessions are every other week beginning May 19, 2020. [continue reading…]

Learning from Distinctions: Climate Change and COVID-19

April 22, 2020 2

The distinctions and similarities between the problematics of COVID-19 and climate change illuminated in this article by Úrsula Oswald Spring intimates a holistic, planetary and ecological worldview that might serve as the basis for learning for a renewed world rooted in human dignity and realized through social and environmental justice. [continue reading…]

Earth Day

April 21, 2020 0

Every year on April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. [continue reading…]

It’s time for schools to teach the climate and ecological crisis (UK)

February 29, 2020 0

Today’s UK school system prepares pupils for a future that simply does not exist. This extraordinary failing has led young people to self-organise and demand school-based education that acknowledges and responds to the defining challenge of their lives: the climate crisis. [continue reading…]

“Social Education for Human Survival”

December 26, 2018 2

Commenting on her 1975 publication, “A Social Education for Human Survival: A Synthesis of Practices in International Education and Peace Studies,” Betty Reardon asserts that teachers should be provided with the rationale that underlies the curricula they are called upon to teach, and urges attention to “the ecological imperative,” the need for peace education to confront human responsibility for the survival of the planet. [continue reading…]