Resource Key Findings from Analyses on the Relationship between Education and Peace This report shares some of the high-level findings from comprehensive research undertaken by IEP to better understand the relationships between education and levels of peacefulness.
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.
Resource Connecting the dots on the triple nexus The concept ‘triple nexus’ is used to capture the interlinkages between the humanitarian, development and peace sectors. It is important to understand the context behind the triple nexus, before considering some of its critiques and some of the emerging operational challenges of its implementation.
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.
