Peace Portal - A Recipe For Peace - Story Template. Peace and Collaborative Development Network - Building Bridges, Networks and Expertise Across Sectors. How to teach Peace Day. In an unsettled world, the UN International Day of Peace on 21 September is an opportunity to reflect on peace and reconciliationboth globally and in our personal lives at school and home.
It is also a day of practical action, to make acts of peace and observe a day of worldwide ceasefire and non-violence. We have some powerful resources on the Guardian Teacher Network to use on Peace Day and beyond. Peace One Day (POD), founded by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, has some stirring and engaging resources. POD is launching its 365-day countdown for a Global Truce 2012 tomorrow and you can find its lesson aimed at secondary-school aged children here.
Action led by POD resulted in a 70% reduction in violence in Afghanistan on Peace Day 2008. Global Campaign for Peace Education. A Note from the Editors: Each month the GCPE newsletter features a lead article highlighting perspectives on peace education research, practice, and policy from peace educators from around the world to provde readers with multiple perspectives on our wide and rapidly developing field.
We encourage you, the readers, to critically engage with these perspectives as you reflect upon your own work and practice. We also invite you to contact us with your comments and for the possibility of contributing articles for future issues. The challenge of abolition of war will be addressed at the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) 2014, taking place July 6-13 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace, Ted Talk.