Peace Education Network: Teach Peace
Teach Peace, a new resource from the Peace Education Network, is a set of eight assemblies, follow-up activities, resources, prayers and reflections on peace for primary schools.
From the UN peace day, 21 September, to the International Day for Children as Victims of War, 4 June, the school year is filled with opportunities to use the assemblies and activities in Teach Peace. This resource will help to ensure peace is a key theme in our children’s education and help you to celebrate peace and the peacemakers in your school.
This Package Includes:
- Foreword by Don Rowe
- Introduction (pdf)Assembly 1: What is Peace?
- Assembly 1: Slideshow (ppt)
- Assembly 2: Think before you act: the legend of Beddgelert
- Assembly 3: Conflict Resolution: A Tale of Two Mules
- Assembly 4: A Christmas Truce
- Assembly 5: The Importance of Disobedience
- Assembly 6: The Angel of Prisons
- Assembly 7: Barriers to Peace
- Assembly 8: Slideshow (ppt)
- Assembly 9: Sadako and the thousand cranes
- Peace Calendar
- Prayers and Reflections
- Ideas for creating a more peaceful school
Source: http://peace-education.org.uk
The entire resource is Full Teach Peace Pack at link below (pdf)
Countering Military Recruitment
WRI's new booklet, Countering Military Recruitment: Learning the lessons of counter-recruitment campaigns internationally, is out now. The booklet includes examples of campaigning against youth militarisation across different countries with the contribution of grassroot activists.
You can order a paperback version here.