It is essential to involve people at the grassroots level in providing solutions to their challenges. Therefore, peace education should be made compulsory in schools in the region. This was one of the conclusions of the inaugural honorary lecture series on peace building in the Great Lakes Region hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University.
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 International Conference on Great Lakes Region has asked the Ministry of Education and the National Curriculum Development Centre in Uganda to incorporate peace education into the national curriculum.
Mr. Edgar K Buryahika argues that we should create a situation where we do not only put our energy and resources on peacekeeping, but rather peacebuilding, peace education, and peace sustaining mechanisms in Uganda.
Gatwal Gatkuoth argues that as organizations work to support a more relevant and ambitious education agenda for our world, it is imperative that we do not lose sight of the need to unlock education’s potential for young people and for peace.
This report analyses the progresses made by Cambodia, Colombia, Mongolia and Uganda in the development and piloting of global citizenship education tools.
In a bid to combat violence in schools, education experts have called for the need to incorporate peacebuilding skills in the curriculum in Uganda.
Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe is overseeing an effort to write a women-specific peace curriculum with survivors of northern Uganda’s years of terror. The curriculum will use real-life examples and methods that have helped women in Gulu, teaching women in other post-conflict areas how to find peace both within themselves and within their communities.
Bridge International Academies — a chain of inexpensive private schools — has ambitious plans to revolutionize education for poor children. But can its for-profit model work in some of the most impoverished places on Earth? Peg Tyre’s report for the New York Times Magazine examines positive and negative impacts of the model.
Kampala schools have received peace education books from Always Be Tolerant Organisation (ABETO) in conjunction with the Turkish embassy in Uganda. The function was presided over by Turkish ambassador H.E Sedef Yavuzalp who noted that their “participation in donation of books acknowledges the support towards peace and democracy building in Uganda.”