Peace Education Network

Time to Teach Peace! 📢Out now! 🕊️🧑🏻‍🏫👩🏾‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧑🏼‍🏫🧑🏿‍🏫👩🏾‍🏫🕊️ In Teach Peace Secondary, find over 50 lessons from across the curriculum, provided by our amazing members and partners! 🩷🧡💛 All downloadable for free! peace-education.org.uk/teach-peace

Still not too late to submit poems for the National Peace Poetry Competition: Verses of Hope, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 3 categories primary, secondary and FE/College. Deadline 23rd July. @PeaceEdNetwork @PeaceEduQuaker

Calling all Primary teachers and English secondary / FE teachers! Submit your students' poems to our National Peace Poetry Competition: Verses of Hope, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Deadline 23rd July. @NATEfeed @The_UKLA #English

“What can we do to save our planet?” Beautiful words, music and voices from @SchoolBeechwood at our #Eco schools event on Friday! @MinistryEco @weareive @Child_Leeds @ClimateActLeeds @LLAlliance @alexsobel @LeedsClimateCom @LeedsClimate @youngclimatewrs @bishopyoungce

How can education prepare citizens in advance of human-made conflict or disasters? Read Hans Svennevig on Disaster and climate education (DCE) blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/03/31…

Excellent to start the #peermediation journey @SladefieldInfSc this week. We are excited to train some of your fabulous Year 2 children to help solve conflicts in the playground.

If a school had 15 incidents of staff violence, 13 reports of sexual offences including 9 rapes, a suicide attempt all in 3 years, it would be shut down. It would be a scandal. Why has the #ArmyFoundationCollege got away with it? Vital reading @CRINwire home.crin.org/readlistenwatc…

How do educators build for peace? Professor Hilary Cremin’s talk to launch the new OpenLearn Principles and Practice of Peace Education: Wed Feb 5 1-2pm bit.ly/3Wo3CyT @PeaceEdNetwork

Great to see @EISUnion launch it's Education For Peace policy and connect with teachers at the Still We Rise conference in Glasgow. "There is no way to peace - peace is the way" ✌🏼 And we've loved meeting teachers working on inclusion and equity in so many ways!

🙌🏻We've passed 10,000 Teach Peace downloads via TES resources! Thanks to the educators and great orgs who contribute, inc. @_CRESST @CNDPeaceEd @PaxChristiYouth @FacingHistoryUK @WorldBeyondWar @DEC_SY @ResponsibleSci @wosdec @PeaceEduQuaker @AmnestyUK tes.com/teaching-resou…

For Interfaith Week, starting 10 November, students can explore the relationship between religion and peace. How do different faiths engage with questions of war, nonviolence and peacemaking? tes.com/teaching-resou…

The run up to Armistice Day can be a particularly opportune time to learn about peace. We're featuring fantastic resources to support peace education at all levels - inner peace, peace between us, peace amongst our school community and peace in the world. shorturl.at/f5SVA

With Islamophobia Awareness Month starting next week, check out our unit on Discussing Contemporary Islamophobia, which includes five lessons, accompanying PowerPoints, and handouts. @IslamophobiaAM @DiverseEd2020 buff.ly/42ZQRuF

The next PEN meeting and skillshare is coming up on 7 Nov, 10–13:30. Join us online to connect with other peace educators, learn the amazing story of the 1923 Women’s Peace Petition and Using art and objects for peace education🤩 peace-education.org.uk/meetings

Looking for resources to explore peace for the UN International Day of Peace? Have a look at Teach Peace Secondary- over 50 lessons on a range of peace themes from our friends at the Peace Education Network: peace-education.org.uk/teach-peace @PeaceEdNetwork

For World Peace Day today, we're highlighting Teach Peace Secondary from @PeaceEdNetwork! We contributed a lesson from our newly updated pack 'Under Pressure' to this 50 lesson resource for 11-14 yr olds, free to download via @tes #PeaceDay @PeaceDay Teach Peace - TES

Docudrama 'Threads' about nuclear holocaust set in Sheffield, showing on BBC4 today for its 40th anniversary @PeaceEdNetwork @ACitizenshipT

Jamie from @weareCN4C shares his thoughts on supporting one another during the CoL crisis. Rising essentials & growing mental health struggles are big concerns. RJ Working is hosting 20 community conversations in Camborne & Redruth until Christmas. Join us to support each other.

🚨 Register for tomorrow's free webinar! 🚨 We'll be joined by social media expert and founder of @Battenhall, @drewb, who'll be sharing approaches and ideas that can help you support students to use social media in healthy ways. Join us online: 📅 8th October 🕓 4-5PM

Today - not too late to attend in person or livestream! An evening remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Michael Mears, Chihiro Ono and Antony Owen - not to be missed 8th Aug 7.30 (live and live streamed) Register here: sandsmusic.eventive.org/schedule/667d3… @MichaelMears7 @PeaceEdNetwork

Here are some snippets from the conversation between Israeli peace activist @Magen_Inon and Palestinian peace activist @hamzeAwawde. We had the honour of hearing their perspectives and messages of hope at our 20th anniversary event last month.