The Security Council urged relevant United Nations entities to increase their activities focusing on peace education to enhance the values that are essential for a culture of peace.
On May 16, 2022, the 5th International Day of Living Together in Peace will be held. For this day, which will be celebrated all over the world, we invite you to the screening of the documentary movie “All of Us”.
Vice President Kembo Mohadi said the government should develop a policy to integrate, mainstream, or introduce peace education in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.
Speakers at an event on the “Importance of Peace Education” held in Peshawar asked for the inclusion of peace education in the curriculum of schools to promote tolerance, social cohesion, and respect for differences among children.
Tolerance, a fundamental value of democracy, has fallen victim to the conditions asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants flee, and, sadly has little valence in the immigration policies of the nations in which they seek refuge and asylum. In this post, Betty Reardon applies some of the underlying principles of her 1994 publication, “Tolerance – the Threshold of Peace,” to today’s issues of mass immigration.
The project of iSchool-Myanmar includes organizing ten peace related trainings in the Mandalay Region for PWDs and the LGBTIQA communities. The project also involves publishing a thousand copies of a peace education reference book.
UNICEF has been responding to friction and shortages in Kirkuk by establishing a programme to foster peace and tolerance, starting in schools. “It’s essential that education provision is equitable and that schools are conflict-sensitive so that they can promote peace,” says Kelsey Shanks, a consultant with UNICEF.
A group of students from the Lahore University of Management Sciences has launched a campaign by the name of PEACE (Promote Education and Combat Extremism), for which they have visited around 30 schools across Lahore.
The South Korean Ambassador to Uganda, Park Jong Dae, said that for conflict to be eradicated, a culture of peace and tolerance needs to be inculcated in young school going children. While speaking during the launch of a peace education program at Nakasero Primary School, Dae said that peace can only be attained when unity and tolerance is shared. “Everything starts with peace. If you teach children how to tolerate each other at a tender age, when they grow up, this culture will exhibit itself naturally and we shall have a peaceful society,” he said.
The peace education program was an idea conceived by the Always Be Tolerant Organization (ABETO) and assented to by the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Sports (MOESTS), and adopted into the school’s curriculum.
The New York Times asked their readers who are Muslim how they talk to their children about these difficult times. More than 200 people responded. Many wrote about how they try to teach their children that terrorists do not reflect them or their faith. Here is a selection of the responses. How are you explaining these issues to your children?