Recommendation Peace Education
Consultative Meeting - "Renewing Peace Education in Intercultural Youth Activities"
The Consultative Meeting was organised to pool together experiences, approaches and identifying methodologies for credible activities in peace education and conflict transformation that take into account the realities of today’s Europe and the concerns of young people.
The meeting explored the following questions:
- Which (new) experiences and approaches to peace education and conflict transformation with and by young people are being developed and implemented?
- What are the essential contents and competences that peacebuilding and conflict transformation in intercultural youth activities should secure in order to be credible and effective?
- How to involve or address young people living under armed conflict in peace education and conflict transformation activities?
- How to support young peace activists and educators in their role as multipliers in their communities and organisations?
For more info consult the webpage of the Consultative Meeting
Feasibility Study
about a Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Governments of Member States on Peace Education in Non-formal learning and Youth work
This study, authored by Dr Phil Gittins, aims to support the statutory bodies within the youth sector of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe (CoE), particularly the Joint Council on Youth, in assessing the need, relevance, and feasibility of developing a Committee of Ministers (CM) Recommendation to the governments of Member States on Peace Education in non-formal learning and youth work.
The document provides an overview of peace education, exploring what it is, why it matters, and how it can be done. It also identifies and describes relevant standards, texts, and initiatives related to peace education and peacebuilding-related activities involving young people, summarising progress made and identifying current gaps. The document concludes with a proposal that outlines what should be addressed, included, or suggested in the recommendation to build on ongoing efforts and address some of the current gaps, with the goal of improving the recognition, viability, accessibility, delivery, effectiveness, and impacts of peace education initiatives across the 46 Member States of the CoE and beyond.
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