Training Manuals & Handbooks

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Resources

  • EN Global campaign for peace education (external link)A valuable resource to learn about peace education and join peace campaigns either individually or as organisation
  • EN Transformative pedagogy for peace-building. A guide for teachers (PDF – 6.9 MB)This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for peace-building. It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy and provides practical tools to assess learners’ understanding of peace-building concepts and skills. It concludes with 20 engaging activities to support experiential learning.
  • EN The Recommendation on Education for Peace and Human Rights and Sustainable Development: an explainer (external link)The new UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace and Human Rights, International Understanding, Cooperation, Fundamental Freedoms, Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development, which is commonly referred to as the Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development is a landmark guidance document that defines what needs to evolve in and through education to accomplish these goals.
  • EN A Policymaker’s Tool For Effective, Nonviolent Strategies For Sustainable Peace (PDF – 7.1 MB)A Tool from Pax Christi International. This publication invites policy makers, including church leaders who have influential roles in public policy processes to consider, adopt and implement policies that promote nonviolent options in response to violent or potentially violent societal challenges.
  • EN Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Toolkit (PDF – 1.7 MB)The Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Toolkit (IREX and FTI, 2013) provides step-by-step instructions on building and implementing training for youth offering training notes, handouts, sample agendas, and resource templates needed to initiate a peer mediation program.
  • EN The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010) (PDF – 1.7 MB)This book provides numerous exercises, from which you can choose and adapt to the goals and audience of your training on peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
  • EN LWF Peace Messengers Training (LWF, 2018) (PDF – 2 MB)The Peace Messengers Training Manual provides tools for facilitating local conflict resolution and peacebuilding training in a participatory manner and utilizes the approach of experimental learning. The tool allows to arrange the training and it provides knowledge on different topics concerning peace and conflict, conflict analysis and resolution, as well builds upon the knowledge of the participants.