Training Cameroon’s Educators to be Peacemakers
Key words: peacebuilding skills, peace education, Cameroon school system, conflict resolution, conflict management, mututal understanding and tolerance, pedagogy.
Time flies, things change, and learning is life-long
Time flies, things change, and learning is life-long Author: Mohit Mukherjee Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 05/03/2010 I finished my graduate program in international education in the summer of 2002. One key take-away that ‘stuck’ with me is that schooling in most countries had been modelled on an industrial-age factory. They […]
Reaching the World’s Young People with Education for Peace
UPEACE Rector John J. Maresca discusses the potential of new communication technologies to transform higher education, emphasizing the particular opportunity that these changes bring for the University for Peace to fulfil its mission of offering higher education for peace “to humanity”.
Education for young people in armed conflict
This paper examines the impact of war on the education of young people in armed conflict and also give a situational analysis of youths and children in armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Colombia and Cambodia. The paper also looks at how the life of youth and children can be restored through reintegration activities, provision of formal and informal education, employment, facilitation of psychosocial training and vocational training opportunities. It provides a gender perspective of how girls and women are mostly vulnerable in conflict times and stresses the implementation of the right to education instruments such as the convention on the Right of the Child, the Human Right Convention, MDG-2, Refugee convention of 1951 and the EFA framework to enhance the education of war affected young people.
Educating Refugees and the Internally Displaced Persons
Simmering ethno-religious crises, struggles for political power or natural resources, all of which have led to endless human suffering and consequent loss of lives, destruction of properties and displacement of people, demand that we focus on education. In this article, Blessing Ojone Adejoh talks about the importance of education during emergency response.
December 1st, Day of the Abolition of the Army, Costa Rica
Ronald Castro Fernández describes the circumstances around Costa Rica’s decision to abolish the army in 1948, and its enshrinement into the constitution in 1949.
Global Man (Human) as the Vision for the Third Millennium: The Role of Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad explores the esoteric in this opinion piece on the spiritual relationship of oneness between humankind and the universe, connecting the essence of “global man” to the realization of peace on Earth.
Global Governance for Security and Peace: The Role of Peace Education
This is excerpt from the speech delivered by Dr. Prasad at the International Academic Peace Conference on the eve of UN International Peace Day at Hotel Lotte, Seoul organized by Institute of International Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Multilingual Education in Russia: Balashov and Saratov
This study compares attitudes towards foreign language study among students specializing in organizational management in economic programes in representative towns and cities in Russia with reference to socio-economic indictors.
Indigenous Conflict Resolution and Durable Peace in Cyprus
Cyprus remains deeply divided, despite (or perhaps because of) years of legalistic and nationalistic attempts to resolve the conflict. In this essay, researcher Oluwaseun Bamidele argues that greater emphasis should be put on “indigenous” models of negotiation and reconciliation, common to both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, as well as to a “politics of feelings”, in order to breakdown divisive narratives of historic trauma and strengthen the emerging culture of empathy and peace on the island.