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Learn how you and your students can turn animosity, hatred, and domination into a spirit of collaboration, creativity, and community.
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Learn how you and your students can turn animosity, hatred, and domination into a spirit of collaboration, creativity, and community.
(coming soon)
Support your students be an agent of change for establishing the foundations for sustainability within and between societies that have experienced significant social conflict, violence, and war.
(coming soon)
Support your students be an agent of change for establishing the foundations for sustainability within and between societies that have experienced significant social conflict, violence, and war.
In this course you will learn about Intercultural Dialogue and how to use its concepts with your students. The aim of education for intercultural dialogue is to enable youth to engage in an open and respectful exchange of views with individuals and groups of different backgrounds, in pursuit of mutual understanding. Its focus is about building positive relationships using communication skills that enable mutual understanding and cooperation. It is a way of communicating and listening that enables people to bridge different points of view and to constructively navigate the diverse perceptions, needs and priorities that often make sensitive and controversial issues difficult to discuss. Through this course, you will support yourself and your students to gain a better understanding of the history, cultures, and worldviews of other people and to develop more informed views on the social and political context of contemporary intergroup relations. You will feel empowered to nurture attitudes and behaviours of openness, curiosity and respect towards others that lead to greater empathy, trust, and solidarity. You and your students will cultivate skills of perspective sharing and critical thinking, you will help young people to recognize and reject stereotypes and will enable them to confront prejudice and discrimination wherever encountered. The ultimate goal of this exchange is to create a collaborative read more
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Intercultural dialogue can be a sensitive topic. To ensure an inclusive and welcoming space, where all can learn together, please:
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Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi has worked in the field of peacebuilding through education for 20 years as a practitioner, researcher, curriculum developer and trainer. Her focus is on the role of education in contexts of violent conflict, displacement, transitional justice, social healing, post-conflict reconstruction and intergroup reconciliation. Sara has worked with educators and youth in the Western Balkans since the early 2000s. She coordinated the first peace education program in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, working intensively with 6000 students and 400 teachers in primary and secondary schools on psychosocial recovery, intercommunity peacebuilding and reconciliation using whole-school, cross-curricular approaches. She later specialised in teacher training and is the author of four substantive educational manuals in this field, as well as several scientific articles and chapters. Since 2019, she has been an education consultant with RYCO and the United Nations. Beyond the Western Balkans, Sara has supported peacebuilding projects and practitioners in another 12 countries across Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. She earned a PhD (2017) and Masters (2012) in Education from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Conflict Resolution (2002) from Landegg International University, and a BA in Ethics, Society and Law (1999) from the University of Toronto. Sara is the 2021 Georg Arnhold Senior Fellow on Education for Sustainable Peace at the Georg Eckert Institute in Germany. She is married and the proud mother of two teenaged daughters.
Length
5 WEEKS
Effort
1–2 hours per week
Price
FREE
Certificate
Upon completion
Subject
Education & Teacher Training
Level
Easy
Language
English
Video Transcripts
English
Course Type
Self-paced
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Peacebuilding is about establishing the foundations for sustainability within and between societies that have experienced significant social conflict, violence and war. It is about ensuring that the relationships between diverse individuals and groups are grounded in and protected by agreements, policies, institutions, cultures and modes of behaviour that are non-violent, respectful of diversity, inclusive, equitable and just.
Education for peacebuilding thus depends upon an inclusive and critical pedagogic approach that helps young people to analyse the world around them, to deconstruct received ideas and norms that have been used in the past to limit, exclude or dominate, to recognize their own and other's latent powers and potential, to recognize pressing challenges, needs and opportunities in our globalised world, and to use their creativity and resources to jointly construct and collaborate on new paths of action that will increase sustainable wellbeing for all.
In this course, you will learn how to introduce your students to the concepts of violence, conflict and peace; as well as to tools for conflict analysis and resolution, leading to their engagement in practices of social innovation, community engagement and advocacy for peace.
Dealing with the Past is about undertaking a difficult but necessary process of constructive remembrance and reconciliation, with the aim of addressing and overcoming the destructive legacies of conflict, violence and injustice. The purpose of dealing with the past is to ensure that present and future generations may be unburdened from inherited grievances and be given the opportunity to live in a healthy society where future grievances are intentionally and successfully prevented. The aim of educating for remembrance and reconciliation is to enable young generations to acquire the skills needed to view the events of the past within their historical context, to seek out and distinguish between facts and opinions, to think critically about received narratives, to listen to and consider additional perspectives, interpretations and narratives that offer further insights into historical events, to reflect upon the roles and choices of various actors, to weigh those choices within the balance of universal human rights and ethics, and to choose to become positive actors in proactively shaping a better future.
Educating for constructive remembrance and reconciliation is a sensitive task that requires courage. It also requires and nurtures ethical maturity based on shared humanity and dignity. In this course, you will learn how to introduce your students to the concepts of dealing with the past, transitional justice, constructive remembrance and reconciliation for them to reflect on processes that foster individual and societal healing, so that their abilities to distinguish between facts and opinions, to think critically about sources of information, and to challenge dominant narratives that promote the reproduction of social conflict are strengthened. Moreover, you will be supported to reflect on your own attitudes and approaches to dealing with sensitive and controversial topics in the classroom and to consider the important role of schools in supporting a culture of remembrance and reconciliation in the Western Balkans.
