Global Campaign for Peace Education

Peace in Sustainable Development: Aligning the 2030 Agenda with Women, Peace and Security (Policy Brief)

October 16, 2023 / Policy, Research

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes peace as a precondition for sustainable development but falls short in recognizing the intersection of gender and peace. As such, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders prepared this policy brief to examine the linkages between Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and the 2030 Agenda and provide practical recommendations for their synergistic implementation.

International Women’s Peace Group keen to empower, bring about women peace leaders in Ethiopia

October 2, 2023 / News & Highlights

The International Women’s Peace Group Global (IWPG) expressed readiness to support and empower women peace leaders in Ethiopia through a program of women’s peace education.

Online Certificate Course on Gender Mainstreaming – 2023 Edition

Human Rights and Justice Group International is offering a 4-week online course on gender mainstreaming that begins June 30. Application deadline: June 28.

New resources on the nuclear ban treaty

April 9, 2023 / News & Highlights, Research

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has launched a new webpage to help observers keep track of the work in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Other resources include Reaching Critical Will’s new paper on “The TPNW and Gender, Feminism, and Intersectionality.”

Nuclear weapons and Gender: a Youth for TPNW panel

Join Youth for TPNW on August 17 for a panel discussion on the intersections between gender and nuclear weapons.

Report from Afghan Civil Society

May 31, 2022 / News & Highlights

Afghans for Tomorrow recently issued a statement on the current donor situation in Afghanistan and its impact on civil society organizations, education and women. Amongst their suggestions to deal with this crisis is the provision and prioritization of education and employment opportunities for girls and women.

Mindful Courage: A Men’s Retreat

This special retreat, March 4-6, 2022, explores what it means to be mindfully and emotionally courageous on the path of connection with yourself and others.

New primary school curriculum in Spain to include peace education

August 13, 2021 / Policy

Gender equality, education for peace, education for responsible consumption and sustainable development, and education for health, including affective-sexual health, are some of the pedagogical principles of the new primary education curriculum that the Government of Spain is preparing for the 2022/21 academic year.

UNESCO seeks Senior Project Officer (gender and education)

August 6, 2021 / Jobs

The candidate will help to advance the implementation of the UNESCO Strategy for Gender Equality in and through Education and UNESCO’s Her Education, Our Future initiative.

Why the nuclear debate must uplift women’s voices

April 9, 2021 / Opinion

What happens when we deliberately look at nuclear issues with women in frame? Joe Jukes from CND Peace Education discusses women’s involvement and exclusion in the nuclear debate.

New publication – “Engendering Climate Change: Learnings from South Asia”

March 16, 2021 / Publications

Edited by Asha Hans, Nitya Rao, Anjal Prakash, & Amrita Patel, this book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. Open access now available!

“Education for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective” by Betty Reardon (free download)

March 8, 2021 / Curricula

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.

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