Category Archives: Peace

Women, Men, and Peace: new issue of the Alliance for Peacebuilding online publication

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

The Alliance for Peacebuilding just released the third issue of their free semi-annual online publication, Building Peace: A Forum for Peace and Security in the 21st Century. This last issue, Women, Men, and Peace, explores questions of gender and peace through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Afghanistan, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Peace, Peace Education, Peacebuilding, Women | Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Azra Jafari, Building Peace, Conflict, Don Steinberg, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Kristen Gresh, Peace, Peacebuilding, Policy, Research, Security, UN Security Council Resolution 1325, United Nations, USAID, Valerie M. Hudson, Violence, Women Men and Peace, Women's Empowerment, World Learning

Education Under Attack: 2014 Report

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack just released a study that identifies 70 countries where attacks occurred between 2009 and 2012, including 30 where there was a pattern of deliberate attacks: Education Under Attack 2014 is a global study that charts the … Continue reading →

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Unlearning Violence: Evidence and Policies for Early Childhood Development and Peace

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

The World Peace Foundation is organizing an exciting conference on February 13 & 14, 2014, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy – Tufts University. There is no cost to attend, registration is filling fast: interested individuals can obtain more … Continue reading →

Posted in Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Human Rights, Human Rights Education, International Development, Peace, Peace Education, Peacebuilding | Tagged Because I am a girl, Child Protection, Conflict, Early Childhood, Education, Education First, Education For All, Fragile States, Girls' education, Human Rights, I am Malala, International Development, Millenium Development Goals, Peace, peace education, Peacebuilding, Violence, Violence against women

Nonviolent Civil Resistance works: let’s spread the word!

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

In 2011, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan published a groundbreaking study on civil resistance, Why Civil Resistance Works, the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict. While the prevailing view is that the most effective means of waging political struggle entails violence, they found … Continue reading →

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UN Education First Initiative one year on: Education cannot wait

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

Today, we are celebrating the first-year anniversary of the UN Global Education First initiative launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in September 2012. Around the same time last year, over 20 government and global humanitarian, development and education leaders representing … Continue reading →

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International Day of Peace: UN calls for investment in peace education

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

Education is vital for building peaceful societies and fostering global citizenship, senior United Nations officials today said marking the International Day of Peace with calls for greater investment in quality education and to reverse trends which show aid for schools … Continue reading →

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Pillars of Peace: measuring factors that create peaceful societies

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Tina Robiolle-Moul

The Institute for Economics and Peace just released its latest report, Pillars of Peace. It provides a new conceptual framework for understanding and describing the factors that are associated with peaceful societies. The research is based on an analysis of over 4,000 … Continue reading →

Posted in Fragile States, Human Rights, Peace, Peacebuilding | Tagged Fragile States, Global Peace Index, human development, Human Rights, humanity, Institute for Economics and Peace, International Development, Peace, peace research, Peacebuilding, pillars of peace, positive peace, Research, Vision of Humanity, wellbeing