International Peace Ribbon Tour is coming to your city! (Kenya / global)
The International College of Peace Studies in Nairobi, Kenya launched a 200-meter International Peace Ribbon as part of a Global Peace Appeal on April 25, 2023.
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Accountability Overcomes Impunity
Impunity for crimes against women is being challenged by world-wide women’s movements mobilizing to replace impunity with accountability, as is evidenced by a recent court decision in Kenya. This article explores the problematic of impunity and the role of peace education in pursuing accountability through citizen action.
New Pax Christi presidents look to elevate church’s nonviolence teachings
Sr. Teresia Wamuyu Wachira, a professor of peace and conflict studies at St. Paul’s University in Nairobi, is the first woman religious to serve as a co-president of the organization.
Three Kenyan teachers selected for UN training in peace education
Three Kenyan educationists are set to join 15 others from Horn of Africa for a nine day study tour in Japan in peace education.
The peace builders of Northern Kenya; Successful research led model spreads to other African nations
Founded in aftermath of 2007-08’s national post-election violence, Kenya’s Shalom Centre pioneers successful, research-led formula for preventing conflict between rival groups that includes conducting peace education in primary and secondary schools.
Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World?
Bridge International Academies — a chain of inexpensive private schools — has ambitious plans to revolutionize education for poor children. But can its for-profit model work in some of the most impoverished places on Earth? Peg Tyre’s report for the New York Times Magazine examines positive and negative impacts of the model.