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Peace Cafe, Ana Cynthia Saenz Jaimes

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

GAMIP Latin America presents Peace Cafe, a participatory and dialogued meeting space, virtual, face-to-face or hybrid, for critical reflection, study, promotion, and practices of Cultures of Peace. We want the exchange and respect of opinions and ideas without polarization.

Peace Cafe is for all GAMIP members and civil society actors, researchers, educational institutions, activists, business people, and governments. We hope to share a good coffee, listen and learning common issues and problems in the region.

This project is organized by GAMIP ALC and is supported for its execution by a registered member, by someone from an organization whose objectives are …

Secondary Science A Vehicle For Peace And Conflict Resolution Education, Pamelia N. Khaled

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

The Proposal’s Title

Secondary Science a Vehicle for Peace and Conflict Resolution Education

Keywords

peace, conflict resolution, secondary science, secular, religious, ethnography, Bangladesh

Abstract

This article is based on an ethnographic study in Bangladesh that analyzed Grade 10 students' perspectives on the learning of science regarding peace and conflict resolution, and the use of science in their everyday lives to negotiate peace and resolve conflicts. The in-class delivery of the secondary science curriculum in Religious and Secular educational streams was documented, including the teachers' pedagogical approaches to teaching science; the students' preferred approaches to learning science; and the students' conception …

Expanding Sites For Peacebuilding: Decolonizing Education And Research To Retrieve Cultural And Critical Sources Of Knowledge, Anya Russian, Marc B. Kuly, Heidi Lamb, Jennifer Tesoro

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

This panel considers the ideological, intellectual, personal, and practical dimensions of peacebuilding. It explores how various educational spaces, self-inquiry, and theory can bring attention to cultural predicaments and communities that are frequently neglected, omitted, or misunderstood in peacebuilding.

• In settler-colonial states, schooling is a process of naturalizing inequality which can be exposed and potentially interrupted through the application of peace and conflict studies methods and theories.
• As academic institutions seek to address gender-based violence taking place both on campuses and online, approaches may fall short in considering the institution’s continued entrenchment in colonialism. Further decolonization is needed to better address …

Who's Looking: Listening For The Hidden Story Of Women's Peace Leadership Learning, Robin Neustater

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

Globally, women engage in a multiplicity of agentic roles advocating for peace in their communities. Their involvement comes from an experienced or perceived need and the desire to do something about it. Women are recognized as crucial and competent actors in building peace, in post-war, and post genocide, and, in peace processes and negotiations and women’s community peacebuilding. In communities, women have proven themselves as leaders, bringing socio-cultural, economic and political positive change, while facing significant challenges and obstacles Yet, their expertise and efforts are seldom recognized or translated into positions of decision-making power. We do not know a great …

Environmental Degradation And Sustainable Development In Nigeria: The Need For Environmental Education, Chukwuma Patrick Nwabudike University Of Nigeria Nsukka, Zipporah Onyinyechi Omenma, Emmanuel Eze, Nkechinyere Charity Edeh, Uloma Adaugo Onwuzurike

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

Environmental hazard poses major threat to humanity and development. Nigeria government has put in place environmental programme and policies to restore environmental quality and to sustain it, but much has not been achieved. The Environment has been seriously and continuously subjected to enormous degradation due to natural and man-made activities which has rendered it unhealthy and non-habitable. Findings show that the present government attitude towards the environment is still highly unsustainable despite the modicum of efforts of the Nigeria government to raise people’s awareness on the right type of attitude towards the environment through series of conferences, seminars and workshop. …

Implementing Peace Education Strategies In The Post-Nursery And Post Primary Schools: An Example From Nigeria, Zipporah Onyinyechi Omenma, Nkechinyere Charity Edeh, Eric Kenechukwu Nwagu Professor, Bernedeth Nkiru Ezegbe Professor, Chukwuma Patrick Nwabudike, Emmanuel Eze

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

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