A three-day Youth Champions workshop on Peace and Values Education was held by Aegis at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in the first week of February, bringing together 25 young people from Kigali and its surroundings. They acquired knowledge about the path to violence, the path to peace, advocacy, being an upstander, leadership, project development, gender equality, trauma and healing.
MPI is delighted to announce the opening of the call for applications for our 2023 Annual Peacebuilding Training with the theme: “On the Road to Peace: The Journey Continues.” The training will be held from May 15 to June 2, 2023, at Mergrande Ocean Resort, Davao City, Philippines.
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.
Dr. Alyssa Hadley-Dunn, founder of “Teaching on the Days After: Dialogue & Resources for Educating Toward Justice,” shares some resources/ideas for use in the classroom to discuss the attack on the US Capitol.
Those with prior experiences of collective fear, especially survivors of genocide in Rwanda, can be triggered by the current corona crisis. Jean Pierre Ndagijimana offers trauma-informed responses for dealing with prior experiences of collective fear in the present moment.
Kathleen Madu, a Nigerian-American living in South Los Angeles, shares that knowing firsthand how traumatizing violence is she wanted to be part of the solution to end it, so she volunteered to teach about peace.
In an extraordinary Twitter chat led by Edutopia, educators discuss building trauma-informed social and emotional learning environments.
The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 35th Niwano Peace Prize to the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon in recognition of its continued service to global peace-building, notably its development of a program for children and educators offering guidance to peace and reconciliation for those affected by the Syrian war.
How trauma, alienation, and rage led Paul K. Chappell to realistic hope, radical empathy, and a new understanding of peace.