Amid a global pandemic, rising global violence, and a national and worldwide reckoning over systemic injustice and racism, #PeaceCon2020 brought together experts and practitioners to consider the interplay of justice and peacebuilding, and strategies to elevate and integrate peacebuilding in our collective effort to shape a more just, secure and peaceful future in the wake...
Sanjana Molleti is majoring in Biology, Society, and the Environment with a minor in Spanish. Her dream is to become a doctor working in global health. As you can imagine, she is another designer of the Teach Peace Early Lesson Manual, that incredible tool I’ve already talked about. It can be accessed by any parent or...
Eleanor Kirby is a teacher from Manchester, United Kingdom. She loves working with young people and she’s energized by their ideas and action. Moreover, she recently completed a master’s degree, specializing in technology and peace education, in the hope of sharing new ideas with friends from around the world. And this is precisely our goal,...
Two Mondays ago, I introduced Morissa, one of the Teach Peace Early Lesson Plan Developers. With great enthusiasm, she told us what it means for her to Teach Peace Early. She affirmed that Teach Peace Early is, “A beautiful way to create a more kind, compassionate, and thoughtful world.” After all, children are not only...
Last Monday we started introducing the “Teach Peace Early” Lesson Plan Developers, and we talked about Janine Classen, one of the leaders of the project. Did you read about it? If you missed it, read the interesting blog here. On today’s “Meet the Developers” spotlight, I am introducing Morrissa Berman, another designer of the “Teach...
It is another Monday where we discuss everything about Peace Education, the work we do around this theme in Nigeria and how investing in this education can facilitate in building sustainable peace. This interdisciplinary area of education whose goal is institutionalised and non-institutionalised teaching about peace and for peace aims to help students acquire skills...
It’s with great sadness that the police brutality happened recently. Young people have the right to speak up against injustice. And that’s when we at Galaxy 4 Peace are teaching respect for human rights to build a better world. We call on the Nigerian government to stop extrajudicial and massive killings. We call on the...
Tolerance, a powerful world that can be used to shape our society and world a better place. Wondering how? Find out in this blog that will take you less than 4 minutes to read. Tolerance means the attitude of respect towards the behavior, ideas, or beliefs of others, even if in contrast with a person’s...
One thing is certain, a peace education program cannot be missed. Many in the field believe that the implementation of principles of peace education into the institutionalized educational system is a better approach, especially within the subjects encompassing the cultural heritage of the dominant society and the ethnic groups belonging to it. The key issue...
As far as peace education is concerned, it is not anew concept. However, teaching values and morals have been emphasized upon but peace education has not been given much priority and space. We need a common global curriculum that is globally relevant and inclusive as well as being well integrated, all encompassing and fully synchronised...
