MPI is delighted to announce the opening of the call for applications for our 2023 Annual Peacebuilding Training with the theme: “On the Road to Peace: The Journey Continues.” The training will be held from May 15 to June 2, 2023, at Mergrande Ocean Resort, Davao City, Philippines.
Fr. Mercado became active in peace-building in the 1990s. As president of Notre Dame University in Cotabato City in 1992, he established the Institute of Peace Education.
A lecturer with the Department of Political Science, Kaduna State University, KASU, Dr. Joshua Danjuma, has stressed the need to encourage peace education for the peaceful co-existence of groups in Kaduna State.
Peace education to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between people involving the religious and secular sectors is needed to counter uncertainty fed by radicalization and xenophobia, says Idriss Jazairy, executive director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue.
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue of the Vatican and the Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation of the World Council of Churches met in Geneva to work on a document titled “Education for Peace in a Multi-Religious World.”
Educating for peace is the theme of a proposed joint document to be drawn up by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Council of Churches’ Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation.