On 20 November 2023, the 194 UNESCO Member States adopted the Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development at UNESCO’s General Conference. This is the only global standard-setting instrument that lays out how education should be used to bring about lasting peace and foster human development through 14 guiding principles.
The new Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development was adopted by all 194 UNESCO Member States at the 42nd session of the General Conference.
This Nov. 16 webinar, organized by Arigatou International, will help us reflect on the role of education in addressing the current societal issues we face and shed light on concrete recommendations and ideas to transform education.
At the June 6-8 2023 global conference, National Coordinators of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network reinforced the network’s importance as a laboratory of ideas for educational quality and innovation by endorsing the “70th Anniversary Declaration”.
According to the Brookings Institution, unless we anchor ourselves and define where we are coming from and where we want to go as societies and institutions, discussions on systems transformation will continue to be circuitous and contentious.
The Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda is implementing the Peace Education and Prevention of Violent Extremism project with support from UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa. A one-day workshop was organized for stakeholder engagement in Kampala on July 29 intended to share experiences on peace education and prevention of violent extremism in selected teacher training institutions in Uganda.
The upcoming Transforming Education Summit, part of the UN Secretary General’s ambitious agenda, can truly bring accountability and participation to the inevitably new ways education will be imparted in the future.