{"id":10187,"date":"2017-08-10T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=10187"},"modified":"2017-08-10T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:57:04","slug":"rwanda-building-resilience-to-genocide-through-peace-education-concepts-methods-tools-and-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=10187","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Building Resilience to Genocide through Peace Education: Concepts, Methods, Tools and Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… EDUCATION FOR PEACE …<\/p>\n

An article from Aegis Trust<\/a><\/p>\n

A three-day Colloquium in Kigali in February brought together\u00a0academics and practitioners in and around the field of peace education to share concepts, methods and means of measuring impact, contributing to a stronger evidence base for the effectiveness of peace education.\u00a0The Colloquium report has now been published.<\/p>\n

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\nBuilding Resilience to Genocide through Peace Education: Concepts, Methods, Tools and Impact<\/a><\/p>\n

Three interesting takeaways from the Colloquium:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0Building resilience against genocide requires critical thinking about the process of identity-based violence and its reversal.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0The content of peace education programmes matters: interactive role-play type activities have been shown to have a longer lasting impact.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Unhealed wounds need to be addressed to prevent a repeat of violence; psychosocial support must accompany peace education to reduce anxiety, which can be an obstacle when accessing empathy.<\/p>\n

Colloquium background<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Aegis Trust\u2019s peace-building work in Rwanda began ahead of the establishment of the Kigali Genocide Memorial that opened\u00a0in 2004. From 2013-16 Aegis led the Rwanda Peace Education Programme, a\u00a0partnership including Radio La Benevolencija (producer of the Radio broadcast\u00a0\u201cMusekeweya\u201d -New Dawn),\u00a0the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP)\u00a0and the USC Shoah Foundation. This programme contributed to delivering peace education training to more\u00a0than 60,000 educators, young Rwandans and Rwandan communities.<\/p>\n

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Where is peace education taking place?<\/a><\/p>\n

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A major achievement resulting from the consortium\u2019s advocacy has been that the Government of\u00a0Rwanda through the Ministry of Education has integrated Peace and Values education into the school\u00a0curriculum.\u00a0In a new phase of work Aegis is now supporting the implementation of the revised national curriculum that has integrated\u00a0peace and values education (2016-19).<\/p>\n

The colloquium itself<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the Colloquium in February, panellists\u00a0examined the social, political and cultural triggers\u00a0that enable the process of dehumanisation. Individuals are not born violent, they are socialised into becoming violent. Understanding the process of dehumanisation and its reversal was explored by speakers drawing out valuable insights. Experiences of peace education in different contexts demonstrated how interactive content, such as role-plays or interactive exercises have a major influence on longer-term attitudinal changes.<\/p>\n

Core skills, values and\u00a0knowledge that are central to peace\u00a0education include critical thinking, listening,\u00a0empathy, trust, and personal responsibility. Interlinkages between these\u00a0values were explored, deepening our understanding of how unresolved trauma can affect the ability to empathise. Critical thinking and\u00a0positive values were discussed confirming that critical thinking on its own is not enough to promote peace. It must be accompanied by positive values (empathy, caring) as these guide us in what we decide to think or do. Developing individuals\u2019 sense of personal\u00a0responsibility is closely linked with their sense of agency (their belief that they can act or make a\u00a0difference). The sharing of\u00a0a range of\u00a0experiences of working with these values affirmed\u00a0existing best practice.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A range of approaches and tools to measure peace, the risk of genocide, and individual attitude changes were discussed, providing\u00a0invaluable insights on impact assessment to participating organisations. Resulting from the Colloquium Aegis has been working on its own Impact Tool to assess\u00a0increased resilience to identity-based violence or genocide.<\/p>\n

The Aegis Trust extends thanks to the UK Department for International Development (DfID) for funding the Colloquium and the Genocide Research and Reconciliation Programme.<\/p>\n

(Thank you to Janet Hudgins and the Global Campaign for Peace Education for pointing us to this article)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… EDUCATION FOR PEACE … An article from Aegis Trust A three-day Colloquium in Kigali in February brought together\u00a0academics and practitioners in and around the field of peace education to share concepts, methods and means of measuring impact, contributing to a stronger evidence base for the effectiveness of peace education.\u00a0The Colloquium report has now been … Continue reading Rwanda: Building Resilience to Genocide through Peace Education: Concepts, Methods, Tools and Impact<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,22],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-education-for-peace","tag-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}