Global Campaign for Peace Education

Education: Challenges in contexts of conflict

October 22, 2021 October 21, 2021 / Opinion

Terrorist attacks against educational targets have increased in recent years. Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust analyzes current trends and explores solutions for tackling violent extremism.

Threat assessments: Preventing school violence or creating student trauma?

October 3, 2021 October 1, 2021 / News & Highlights

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.

Call for Book Chapters: Teaching Peace through Elimination of Violence

August 1, 2021 August 1, 2021 / Publications

“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.

Invitation for youth to participate in U.S. Student School Peace and Safety Survey

June 10, 2021 June 10, 2021 / Action Alerts

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.

Dominican Republic: Reflections on the search for a culture of peace in schools

June 5, 2019 March 27, 2020 / Activity Reports

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.

Deputy principal aims to ‘cure violence’ in schools through PHD research (S. Africa)

November 25, 2018 April 3, 2020 / News & Highlights

“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.

Adopt strategies that prevent violence in schools

March 7, 2018 April 10, 2020 / Opinion

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.

How can education prevent school violence and bullying based on ethnic discrimination?

February 18, 2017 June 29, 2020 / Activity Reports

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.

Global Guidance on Addressing School-Related Gender-Based Violence

February 16, 2017 June 29, 2020 / Policy

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.

Schools Brace for Feared Rise in Anti-Immigrant Bullying After Trump’s Win

November 13, 2016 July 27, 2020 / News & Highlights

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: Senior School Based Violence Prevention Advisor, Honduras

November 7, 2016 July 27, 2020 / Jobs

Child Fund International seeks a Senior School Based Violence Prevention Advisor to provide overall technical oversight and guidance to their project in Honduras.

Dawson College marks 10th anniversary of shooting

September 16, 2016 August 13, 2020 / News & Highlights

It was ten years ago that a gunman walked into Dawson College. One student died and 19 others were injured. Richard Filion, the school’s director general, said it’s ironic that their Peace Education program came out of such violence, prompting the school to focus on leading students down the path of peace.

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