The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security launched a new report at the United Nations headquarters on October 30 titled “Beyond Engaging Men: Masculinities, (Non)Violence, and Peacebuilding.”
March 8 is International Women’s Day, a meaningful occasion to reflect on the possibilities of accelerating gender equity from the local to the global. The Global Campaign for Peace Education encourages inquiry and action toward examining the impact that wars have on women and girls, as well as envisioning the structures that must be changed to achieve human equality and security.
Men’s violence prevention (MVP) programs seek to transform men’s silence and inaction into allyship and change. However, it should be clear: MVP is a complementary approach to other violence against women (VAW) work. The point is not to center men, but to support women’s activism, research and leadership towards the goal of ending VAW wherever possible.
Betty Reardon’s 2001 publication, “Education for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective,” can now be downloaded for free via UNESCO’s digital library.
Despite dropping some anti-Semitic tropes, a new report says, Qatari curriculum continues to be problematic. Qatari school curriculum has moved towards modernization, yet remains anti-Zionist, anti-Western and anti-Semitic.
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 Intergenerational Dialogues podcast from 2019 features host Captain Maggie Hallahan in conversation with Dr. Betty Reardon, co-founder of the Global Campaign for Peace Education. The conversation is wide-ranging, exploring issues of gender and peace, militarism, and women’s equality.
There is growing evidence to support the relationship between levels of gender inequality in a society and its potential for conflict. Positive attitudes to gender equality in and through education strengthen social cohesion; consequently, there is a need for gender-transformative education for peacebuilding.
The report, titled ‘Rethinking Schooling for The 21st Century: The State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia’, had its India launch on Tuesday at the India International Centre in the national capital.
Human rights, gender equality, healthy living and reproductive health will soon be an integral part of the Georgian school curriculum.
Enhancing women’s equality is fundamental to the possibility of peace and is an essential realm of inquiry and action for peace education. Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury highlights significant historical developments, disappointments and possibilities for transformative change in support of gender equality that is essential for the possibility of sustainable peace.
Sierra Leone is one of 13 countries in Africa that have adopted a national action plan on UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820. The Localization program, initiated by the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, is a people-based, bottom-up approach to policy-making and policy implementation that guarantees local ownership and participation.