Global Campaign for Peace Education

We need a public health approach to national security strategy

April 17, 2020 January 14, 2022 / News & Highlights

In the sphere of national security strategy, COVID-19 opens the door to a possible shift toward a public health approach and way of developing security strategies. This enables us to see that cross-border harm, destruction, and violence are more synonymous with a contagious disease.

The praxis and prospects of communicative peace in tackling hate speech within the context of peace paradigms

July 2, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Opinion

Micaiah Kalu argues that language teachers should be educated to know how to help their students communicate in peaceful ways, with a focus on communicative peace as a deeper dimension of everyday communicative competence.

Parkland: A Call for Dignity

March 8, 2018 January 14, 2022 / Features

By demanding gun safety, Parkland students are reclaiming their dignity. They are announcing that they are awake to the humiliation of realizing that a “Great America” is not protecting their lives in what should be one of the safest locations: our schools. They are awake to the indignity of living in a society that allows powerful interest groups to weave sticky webs of manipulation that block gun-safety legislation. Furthermore, these students are becoming awake to the intricate systems of humiliation coordinated by public and private forces that wash their hands of responsibility while they spread a lucrative gospel of the right to carry combat weapons.

New Book: “Honor, Humiliation, and Terror An Explosive Mix – And How We Can Defuse It with Dignity”

July 28, 2017 May 4, 2020 / Publications

With this book, Evelin Lindner encourages us to recognize the immense historic opportunity that is open to us in the wake of these dangerous times. Drawing on 40 years of research gathered on her personal path of living globally, she calls us to action in service of restoring and replenishing the health of human arrangements of relationships, emphasizing the lifesaving necessity of mutually dignifying cooperation.

A call to Address Identity-based Violence through Teach-ins at American* Universities

February 1, 2017 June 29, 2020 / Action Alerts, Features

While identity violence is not unique to the US it is in our own society that we have the opportunity and responsibility to take civic action toward overcoming it. American universities have a history of rising to such challenges, producing responses of learning/action on campuses across the country. The IIPE believes that the new epidemics of hate, particularly Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, should be similarly confronted by the academic community. We invite you to share resources and join us in undertaking teach-ins on campuses and in communities across the US and around the world.

Ikeda Center Podcast with Betty Reardon: The Relationship Between Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Peace

January 8, 2017 January 7, 2017 / News & Highlights

In this Ikeda Center podcast Dr. Betty Reardon shares insights on the relationship between human dignity, peace, and human rights and discusses the necessity of developing a systemic approach to peacebuilding.

Making Peace Real: an interview with Betty Reardon

September 13, 2016 January 14, 2022 / News & Highlights

In this interview Reardon discusses human dignity, militarism and sexism, and general and complete disarmament as fundamental goals of comprehensive peace education. Published on Common Threads, a blog of Soka Gakkai International, this is an excerpt from a longer interview carried out in collaboration with the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was published in the July 2015 issue of the SGI Quarterly magazine.

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