Observing the occasion of “World Understanding and Peace Day”, the Peace Centre (NEISSR and Peace Channel) conducted Training of Trainers (ToT) for Salt Christian College of Teachers Education on the topic “Role of Teachers in Peace Building”, on February 23.
Save the Children, India in collaboration with the Directorate of School Education Kashmir, held a state-level conference on peace education. Save the Children aims is to mainstream peace education in collaboration with the Directorate.
Ashmeet Kaur’s doctoral research titled ‘In search of peace: Ethnography of an elite school in India’ (2021) explores the institutionalization of peace education in a formal school.
On July 12, 2021, the Centre for Peace Education Manipur (India) launched a campaign to plant more than 10,000 moringa trees in South East Asia. Leban Serto, convenor, dedicated the effort to the Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE).
As part of its efforts to make Nagaland a model state for peacebuilding by 2030, a two-day training of trainers on skill development on ‘Peace Building and Conflict Resolution’ was convened by Peace Channel on October 12.
A webinar on ‘The Role of Teachers in Peace Education’ was organized by Peace Channel and North East Institute Of Social Sciences & Research (NEISSR) on September 11, which emphasised the role of teachers as agents of peace.
Dr. Swaleha Sindhi and Dr. Adfer Shah view India’s New Education Policy (NEP) as an opportunity to make peace education compulsory.
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.
In this OpEd, Ashmeet Kaur argues that Peace Education not only intends to build competencies, values, behavior, and skills to confront violence, but becomes a practice where the purpose (i.e. why to teach), the content (i.e. what to teach), and the pedagogy (i.e. how to teach) become conducive to nurturing values of peace.
A report of the one week workshop on “Integration of Values and Peace Education in Teaching Practices,” held in Amritsar, Punjab, in February 2020, is now available.
The World Literacy Foundation recognized Armene Modi with the Albert Schweitzer Award. Armene has pioneered peace and literacy education to empower rural women in India.
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind led the unveiling of a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Miriam College on October 20, 2019. Miriam College has long been a strong advocate of peace through its Center for Peace Education.