Conference & Workshop Reports

21st Century peace education: discourses, dilemmas, practices
2008 peace education colloquia series
Report now available

In 2008 the Peace Education Center hosted a series of colloquia conducted by visiting peace education scholars and practitioners from around the world. Each colloquium was envisioned as a dialectical space for the intersections of disciplines and approaches to peace education practices. Each offered a provocative and rigorous look at the ways that people are bridging theory and practice in peace education to address the problems we are collectively confronting as a global community.
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report of the regional summer academy on conflict resolution and peacebuilding

"Emerging Leaders Learning to Dialogue and Transform Conflict," the report of the Regional Summer Academy on Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding 2007 is now available. The Regional Summer Academy was organized by the Institute for Peace and Justice Education of the School of Arts and Sciences of Lebanese American University.

"The Regional Summer Academy is based on the firm belief that youth in the Middle East want to work towards peace and a brighter future for their societies, and that, given the opportunity and culturally appropriate tools, they can become a significant force of positive change in their communities and, collectively, across the region." Click here to access the full report >>

educating for global peace:
spiritual & ethical perspectives on peace & justice

RESOURCES FROM THIS SERIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

This timely and provocative lecture series, which took place from June - November 2006, explored the possible contributions of various spiritual and ethical perspectives on peace and justice in educating toward global peace. Click here to access the reports. Click here to access the reports and resources.

recent colloquia reports now available

Amada Benavides de Pérez visited the Peace Education Center on November 7, 2006 and spoke about her work on Peace Education & Human Rights in Colombia. Amada is the Chairperson of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, Office of the High Commissioner Human Rights, Geneva, and President of Schools of Peace Foundation, Colombia. Licensed in Education, with a Master degree in International Relations, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Campaign for Peace Education. She is also the former Dean of the Postgraduate Department at Escuela Superior de Administración Pública.

Amada Benavides - Presentation at Teachers College (Overview of the Schools of Peace Foundation, Colombia)

Amada Benavides - Report of presentation to the UN General Assembly (on the the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights)

Amada Benavides - Presentation (to the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination)