Early childhood development: Pathways to sustainable peace
This UN event presented scientific evidence around early childhood development and social cohesion/peacebuilding and showcased best practices from around the world over the last 25 years.
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Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2686, UN Security Council Urges International Community to Prevent Incitement, Condemn Hate Speech, Racism, Acts of Extremism
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.
UN Secretary General calls for reinstatement of award-winning peace education program in Cyprus
The UN Secretary General’s recent Report on the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus calls for the reinstatement of “Imagine,” an award-winning peace education program.
Afghanistan: Taliban to set new rules on women’s aid work, UN says
We are encouraged by the report of UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffith’s tour of Afghanistan, who points to interactions with the Taliban that show cracks in the monolith of the existing authority. An encouraging number of provincial Taliban seem ready to change.
Can peace really begin in classrooms? Online forum examined the issues for UN International Day of Education
How to teach peace around the planet was the topic of the Global Peace Education Forum on UN Education Day, January 24. Talks included UN Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres, Taliban shooting survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, UNESCO top educator Stefania Giannini, French activist/actress and Harvard professor Guila Clara Kessous, and UNESCO ex-chief Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
UN’s Education Summit: An Opportunity to Create a Bottom-Up Global Governance
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.
Joint Statement from the EU and UN on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (June 19)
This joint statement is well worth reading by peace educators as a basis of an inquiry on the integral relationship of the human rights of women to the achievement of just and stable peace.
A Message to all UN Member States and Leaders of the United Nations (Ukraine)
“The war in Ukraine threatens not only sustainable development, but the survival of humanity. We call upon all nations, operating in accordance with the UN Charter, to put diplomacy to the service of humanity by ending the war through negotiations before the war ends us all.” – Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Mr. Guterres please go URGENTLY to Moscow and Kyiv
We call on all whom we can reach to send their own requests to Secretary-General Guterres to go to Moscow and Kyiv to establish an immediate ceasefire and advance serious peace talks sponsored by the UN, representing the world’s people who want and need peace.
UN Urged to Declare a Global Peace Education Day
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN and Founder of The Global Movement for The Culture of Peace, spoke at the First Annual Peace Education Day Conference organized virtually by The Unity Foundation and Peace Education Network. The conference organizers support an agenda to create a “Global Peace Education Day.”
Call to Civil Society: Support UNAMA
The present terms of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan expire on September 17. The human rights of Afghan women and girls may depend upon its continuation and expansion.
Everything that is Possible: Encouraging UN & Civil Society Action on Afghanistan
Civil society continues to look for opportunities to bring precedents and bases for meaningful action to the attention of those within the UN system that have the capacity to act on Afghanistan. Please read our latest proposal put forth in a letter to the Canadian Ambassador to the UN and please consider signing to indicate your support.