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.
This study explores how, during its implementation, the curriculum peace content has faced challenges linked with the content itself, its implementers and the environment in which it has to evolve.
“Most… agree that there is no neutral education. Education is a social enterprise conducted for the realization of social values. The question is what values are to be realized through education, and how.” -Betty Reardon
A report of the one week workshop on “Integration of Values and Peace Education in Teaching Practices,” held in Amritsar, Punjab, in February 2020, is now available.
Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Peace Direct’s Local Correspondent for Pakistan, interviews Sitwat Yusafzai of the Rawalpindi Grammar School, an experienced peace educator in Pakistan to discover what it takes to implement a successful peace education programme in the country. Based on Ahmed’s observations, the success of peace education in Pakistan rests on both the quality of curricula and teaching, and relevance of the material to pupil. He has seen many projects across the country, some with strong curricula and some with exceptional teaching, but rarely projects having the luxury of both.