Resource Peace Education Manual The manual presents a total of 34 lessons aimed at enhancing youth understanding of peace & security issues, and building their capacity to participate meaningfully and contribute to peace processes. The material is based on learner-centred, active and fun learning methods. The key principle in this material is that every Peace Club member should feel seen, heard and respected.
Resource Peacebuilding Education to Address Gender-Based Aggression: Youths’ Experiences in Mexico, Bangladesh, and Canada Drawing from teacher and student focus group discussions in 11 urban public school contexts, authors Kathy Bickmore and Najme Kishani Farahani find that GBV is a shared concern, but that curricula and classroom practices don’t sufficiently address the issue or create space for transforming local experiences of gender conflict as a way to support sustainable peace.
Resource Learning to Become Smart Radicals: A Regenerative Lens on the Potential for Peace and Reconciliation through Youth and Education Systems Calling on readers to reflect on the power of youth as agents for peace, author Mieke T. A. Lopes Cardozo brings together an education rights framework with a framework for sustainable peacebuilding in EiE contexts to advance a new notion of the role of education that transgresses current models for students’ participation in tackling big issues, such as climate change and social justice.
Resource Book Review: Peace Education: International Perspectives edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos In this review of Peace Education: International Perspectives, edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos, Samira N. Chatila provides an overview of the importance of peace education in supporting peacebuilding in emergencies and defines the link between peace education and violence.
Event Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding Course War and conflict affect women, girls, men and boys in different ways, and yet a gender analysis is often absent from peacebuilding theories and processes. This course challenges participants to think critically about gender and its relevance to the development of lasting and sustainable peace.
Resource Learning for Peace: Lessons Learned from UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Context Programme This chapter summarizes lessons learned from the implementation of “Learning for Peace” across 14 fragile and post-conflict countries. A theoretical framework for understanding education’s contributions to conflict and peace as well as a monitoring and evaluation framework for assessing its contributions toward social cohesion, will be introduced
News Democratic Republic of Congo: Girls’ Lives Shattered by Attacks on Schools Armed groups attacked hundreds of schools in the Kasai region of central Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2016-17 conflict, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a report released today.
News RD Congo : Attaques contre les écoles, synonymes de vie brisée pour les jeunes Congolaises Des groupes armés s’en sont pris à des centaines d’écoles dans la région de Kasaï, au centre de la République démocratique du Congo, au cours du conflit de 2016-2017, a déclaré la Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) dans un rapport publié aujourd'hui.
Resource Local Governance and Sustaining Peace Guidance Note This note provides guidance to UNICEF country offices on programming for peacebuilding through local governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Its main objective is to inform the design and implementation of UNICEF peacebuilding interventions and to contribute to the overall effectiveness of UNICEF programming in fragile and conflict-affected contexts
Resource Pathways to Wellbeing and a More Peaceful and Sustainable World: The Transformative Power of Children and Families Evidence is emerging that family- and community-based ECD services are cost-effective and have the potential to contribute to social cohesion and peacebuilding in both the short and long term – from one generation to the next. Given this, we need to engage government officials and policy-makers around the globe, as partners to invest in ECD services, using a multi-sectorial approach.
