12 Week Online Courses with Leading Peace Educators
The Transcend Peace University TPU is an all-online university, currently headed by Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung. Their inter-disciplinary courses are designed to cover issues pertaining to peace and development studies. TPU seeks to promote trans-border, inter-disciplinary peace studies, and make them accessible to as wide a community as possible. For this, they have opted for […]
Creating Bullying-Free Schools
In recent months in Canada we have experienced loss of precious, innocent lives of young people who killed themselves when the evil impacts of continuous bullying by a few cowardly classmates made living too difficult for them to endure. Unfortunately, these individuals are neither the first nor the last innocent victims of this malignant practice. […]
Peace is the fruit of human maturation - Humanity is coming of age.
Image: Arvind Balaraman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2011 witnessed significant awakening of the masses of humanity in all parts of world: Arabic countries, Worldwide 99/1 Movement, election demonstrations in Russia, etc. Humanity at last is coming of age and we are entering the long-awaited global civilization of peace. Peace is the fruit of human […]
The Spring Education for Peace newsletter is here!
"The children all over the world are in need of peace and security. … We recommend this program [EFP] to all the nations for consideration, as a model of society oriented towards peace, cooperation, and development." ~Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina through its Mission to UN in New York In this issue... Read about Distinctive Aspects […]
An Interesting "New Year's Resolution"
“The Education for Peace Integrative Curriculum is designed on the premise that the over-riding prerequisite for peace is the consciousness of the oneness of humanity within the operation of a unity-based worldview. Not until we realise that we are all members of one family of humanity and that our welfare or ill-health is inseparable, will […]