The Archbishop of Morelia explained that through the Michoacán Council for the Search of Peace and Reconciliation, “We carry out educational models… to generate a culture of dialogue, reconciliation, mediation in the resolution of conflicts and the construction of peace.”
Peace doesn’t just happen. Working to bring it about is something to which all Catholics are called.
Marie Dennis received the Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace 2022 award. Watch and read Marie’s acceptance remarks delivered on August 7, 2022, at the Pax Christi USA 50th anniversary national conference.
What could be a more telling indicator of the values that infuse the Global Campaign for Peace Education than Bishop Tutu having joined the co-founders, Magnus Haavelsrud and Betty Reardon on its inaugural panel at The Hague Conference in 1999? Desmond Tutu was the embodiment of the staunch commitment to just peace that peace educators aspire to cultivate.
In her nomination of Rev. Massingale for the 2021 Teacher of Peace Award, Pearlette Springer, coordinator of the Pax Christi Anti-Racism Team, wrote: “Fr. Bryan has been a ‘teacher of peace’ most of his life, going above and beyond the norm to sustain efforts to address social injustices within the Catholic Church. … He continues to push the envelope in service to BIPOC and LGBTQ communities.”
Pope Francis has called for the creation of a global education system with humanity, not God, at its center. He introduced his plan in a video released at the delayed “Global Compact on Education” event at the Pontifical Lateran University.
The COVID-19 virus has certainly brought in unsettling anxiety inside our mind, body, and spirit. Grace Brillantes-Evangelista, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, leads us into a guided meditation that focuses on checking inwards to clear the space for a meaningful Holy Week encounter.
The imam whose mosque was at the center of the Christchurch terrorist attack makes a call for peace education and spreading a message of love, understanding, and tolerance around the world.
Respect for the other lies at the heart of peace education and was a key thread through a debate entitled “Education for Peace in a multi-religious world”. It was held on the 2018 World Human Rights Day at the United Nations Office in Geneva.
A lot of animosity and divergence stems from disparities between people of different races and spiritual beliefs. In order for global peace and harmony to prevail, even if only to an extent, we need to learn to respect people of all colors and creeds, uniting through our mutual desire for peace and harmony.
84% of the world’s population are religious, thus religious considerations must be taken into account when introducing peace education. Here is the basic teaching on peace from three of the world’s religions, all of which are linked by the concept of reciprocity: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
One of India’s leading bishops has called on education in the country to help bring about “a moral revolution with a renewed ethic of justice, responsibility and community.”