Schools Peace Week Aotearoa (August 6th – 10th 2012)
Schools' Annual Peace Week is a national week designed especially to help schools educate students about peace issues. Peace education is about helping students to understand and manage conflict in their own lives and from a greater perspective learning how peace is fostered both nationally and internationally. Schools' Annual Peace Week is one of the Peace Foundation's contributions to the UN Decade for Peace and Non-Violence for Children. The UNESCO manifesto focused on the following six strands to be used as the basis for peace activities:
- Respect all life
- Reject violence
- Share with others
- Listen to understand
- Preserve the planet
- Rediscover solidarity
Lots of ideas for activities for Peace Week 2012 can be found here:
