Proposals include expanding violence interruption programs, providing workshops on peace education for teachers and students, and increasing safety presence around schools.
Terrorist attacks against educational targets have increased in recent years. Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust analyzes current trends and explores solutions for tackling violent extremism.
The school safety approach is used to evaluate a student’s potential to cause school violence, but critics say the practice is discriminatory and harmful.
“Teaching Peace through Elimination of Violence” aims for the advancement of peace in and around schools by promoting a pedagogy of peace and nonviolence. Proposals due: November 15, 2021.
Researcher Cheryl Lynn Duckworth is looking for U.S. public school students (ages 14-20) who would like to share their views on the peace and security policies of their schools for a national survey that contributes to a study applying a human security lens to understanding and addressing conflicts and violence in schools. This includes policies such as active shooter drills, the use of school resource officers (police) in schools, arming teachers, anti-bullying programs and peer mediation/counseling.
For three days the Ministry of Education held the National Forum for a Culture of Peace. With the enthusiastic presence of Minister Andrés Navarro, some 360 students represented the 18 educational regions at the national level contributed proposals to address the increase in violence in Dominican schools.
“As an educator, I have seen this increase in school violence first-hand, and I wanted to dig deeper into the causes of school violence, and the steps that could be taken to reduce it,” said Dr Zithobile Mkhize-Ngidi.
Imagine a society in which we invested our dollars not in teaching our children how to respond to inevitable violence with fear and more violence, but in raising children who have the resources, resilience, empathy and skills to create communities in which violence is no longer the norm. This investment would translate into not only safety for our children in their schools, but also huge benefits for our culture as a whole.
UNESCO organized a workshop on Global Citizenship Education as part of the International Symposium on School Violence and Bullying: From Evidence to Action that took place in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
This guidance aims to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource on school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), including clear, knowledge-based operational guidance, diverse case studies drawn from examples of promising practice and recommended tools for the education sector and its partners working to eliminate gender-based violence.
New York City teachers have seen an increase in student fears as the campaign wound on, culminating the day after the election.
Child Fund International seeks a Senior School Based Violence Prevention Advisor to provide overall technical oversight and guidance to their project in Honduras.