Peace education and common security: Positive peace from schools to the world.

Event Date: 12th May 2022
Location: Internet 17.15 - 19.00 BST

UNFOLD ZERO joins the Right Livelihood Centre at the University of Zurich in inviting you to

Peace education and common security:
Positive peace from schools to the world.

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Positive peace from schools to the world

Alyn Ware, a peace educator and international disarmament campaigner from New Zealand, was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2009 in honour of his work developing and implementing peace education in New Zealand schools, and for his leadership in national and international campaigns to abolish nuclear weapons. He now serves as Director of the Basel Peace Office and Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and is a co-founder of UNFOLD ZERO.

In this discussion, Mr Ware will highlight the links between peace education in schools and the elimination of war. The conflict resolution principles that are the basis of peace education find parallels in the common security approaches to international relations. In New Zealand, the introduction of peace studies in schools, supported by the government, was undertaken alongside a parallel process to ban nuclear weapons and reshape foreign policy. Peace education therefore has relevance to critical security issues today such as the Ukraine crisis and the threat of nuclear war.

Joining the discussion will be Dr. Elham Manea, Institute of Political Science, University of Zurichand Marzhan Nurzhan, Deputy Director of the Basel Peace Office and co-convenor of Youth Fusion.
Right Livelihood Lecture Series «Sustainability now!»
Spring Semester 2022

The May 12 event is part of a Sustainability Now lecture series, organised by the Sustainability Team and the Right Livelihood Centre of the University of Zurich. Right Livelihood Laureates report on their engagement in different thematic fields of sustainable development. In the subsequent panels, these experiences will be reflected on from the perspective of research, politics and civil society.

The laureates discuss global societal challenges and cross-disciplinary issues such as human rights, social inequality, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity. Each lecture focuses on a specific aspect of sustainable development, such as Indigenous peoples as guardians of biodiversity, The harassment of civil society in the Russian autocracy, Successful solutions for reforestation with the people, and Responsible science and transformation for the future. The lectures are held online via Zoom and mostly in English. For more information contact Marina Menz.
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