Global Campaign for Peace Education

Mindful Courage: A Men’s Retreat

December 3, 2021 0

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. [continue reading…]

New primary school curriculum in Spain to include peace education

August 13, 2021 0

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. [continue reading…]

UNESCO seeks Senior Project Officer (gender and education)

August 6, 2021 0

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. [continue reading…]

Why the nuclear debate must uplift women’s voices

April 9, 2021 0

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. [continue reading…]

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

March 16, 2021 0

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! [continue reading…]

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

March 8, 2021 0

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. [continue reading…]

Online Certificate Course on Gender Mainstreaming – 2021 Edition

February 4, 2021 0

Human Rights and Justice Group International is offering a month-long online course on gender mainstreaming (March 1-31, 2021). [continue reading…]

Sustainable peace requires transformative action! What do local women peacebuilders have to say ahead of the 20th Anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security agenda?

November 18, 2020 0

Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, UN Women, and Ireland have set out to organize a series of consultations with local women to inform the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review and the 20th Anniversary of UNSCR 1325. [continue reading…]

Youth Leaders Demand Action: Analysis of the Third UN Security Council Resolution on Youth, Peace and Security

July 21, 2020 0

The new UN resolution calls on Member States to recognize and promote synergies between the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Youth, Peace and Security agendas. It includes specific encouragement to Member States to develop and implement roadmaps on youth, peace and security – with dedicated and sufficient resources. [continue reading…]

COVID-19 The New Normal: Militarization and Women’s New Agenda in India

June 30, 2020 0

In this Corona Connection, Asha Hans reflects on the militarist response to COVID-19 in India, illustrating the interrelationships among the multiple “normal” injustices this pandemic has laid bare, showing how they are manifestations of a highly militarized security system. She also invites educators to begin the pedagogic imagining and structuring of a preferred future. [continue reading…]