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Peace Through Education

This policy brief focuses on a handful of initiatives seeking to integrate peace into the formal education system, including ministries of education, teacher training programs, and school policies. These initiatives operate on a relatively small scale, often reaching individual schools or teachers rather than the entire system, but they provide critical insights into how peace education is understood and institutionalized in post-war societies.

Drawing on theoretical literature on peace education and interviews with leaders of seven peace education initiative, this policy brief addresses three central points:

The potential of education as a tool for peacebuilding while highlighting the structural and political barriers that constrain its effectiveness in BiH.
The strategies and values of ongoing peace education initiatives, including how they navigate fragmented governance and political resistance.
Concrete recommendations for practitioners and policymakers to strengthen the institutionalization and impact of peace education in postwar contexts.

Peace Professionalism

ppplogo The Peace Academy is happy to announce our partnership as part of a three-year project (2023-2026) entitled “Developing and Testing New Approaches to Peace Professionalism”. The project will

Establish a network or a community of practice to improve our understanding of peace work and related skills, competencies, and values;
Develop and test a system of assessment that can be scaled at the local, national, and international levels to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of peace professionals; and
Create a platform to increase knowledge co-production, translation, and sharing about peace professionalism.

Overall, the project seeks to improve the planning, implementation, and evaluation of peace programs, and to complement curricula in peace and conflict studies.

The Contribution of Pracademics (Practitioner Academics) to Peacebuilding

Call for Applications - Journal articles, Policy Briefs or Articles for Workshop on Pracademics and Peace - deadline April 1

The Contribution of Pracademics within the International Peace Architecture

This workshop aims to foster new scholarship and debates between peace-oriented pracademics (practitioner academics), scholars, civil society actors and practitioners working in and focusing on interdisciplinary fields in cases relevant to an improved understanding of the current challenges in the International Peace Architecture (IPA). Pracademics are little understood in terms of their methodological and experiental capacities, yet they bridge practice and theory. They have been responsible for significant steps forward in the historical development of an IPA.

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