This website

is created by the Norwegian Peace Alliance and is intended as a resource for teachers that wish to teach themes related to peace, or wish to promote peace skills in their classrooms, and for facilitators of workshop in peace related themes. The website is also used as a resource for workshops at summer camps and seminars, both in connection with youth work and by voluntary organisations involved in training mediators, teaching for intercultural/interreligious dialogue and other such activities.

This website was originally created on a request from teachers at a strategy meeting at the Friendship North/South school exchange programme. It has been developed with help and inspiration from the General Union of Palestinian Teachers, Save the Children Norway, Mediation Services Oslo, Klinsj, and Council of Europe trainers from Azerbaijan and Moldova.

This website gives a short introduction to education for peace and its pedagogical platform, and describes how to build up a successful workshop around a topic. The site gives suggestions for exercises for the various stages of the workshop. It contains various educational "packages" and activities for each topic to be covered, skill to be trained, or stage of the workshop (warming up, evaluation etc.) - see the drop down menus above. The site includes over 200 different activities. The aim and instructions for each activity is included, in addtion for the time required and the age group most suited.

Some of the activities are limited to certain age groups and themes. Others fit into a broad range of educational situations. Some we have made ourselves, others we have "borrowed" (with permission) from other webs sites and books. All of the excercises have been quality assured by trials in various Oslo schools, and many have been tried out in other countries, such as Canada, Palestine, Egypt, Azerbaijan and Syria.

The activities are marked with the following colour code according to the age range they are suited to:

- Primary School

- Middle School

- Secondary School

- College/Adult

We apoligize if we have placed any exercises here that have orginated from your organisation without acknowledgement - please contact us, so that we can link to your organisation if you recognize any of "your" exercises.

NEWS:

The Norwegian Peace Alliance can now offer workshops in Education for Peace for students at Teacher Training College,and for teachers. The title our workshop is:

”A holistic approach to education for peace?”

The object of the workshop is to give the students and teachers ideas about how they can educate their pupils to choose a peaceful way of life. We look at the attitudes, knowledge that need to be built up and the skills that must be trained. We look at a wide range of tools to achieve this, from the daily and weekly routines in the school through games and excercises, to communication and conflict management and cross thematic issues. We look at the United Nations Actionplan for a Culture for Peace, and relate it to the teacher's daily life. The workshop also gives tips on how to influence our pupils to become good global citizens by stimulating their interest in global problems such as the environment, fair distribution and disarmament.

You can read more about the workshop here.

Earlier themes: education in a crisis situation / the technique of philosphical conversations / The mass media and role models / New communication forms / Consumption and Life Style / Non violent resistence in theory and practice

Thank you for visiting our site. We hope that you enjoy the activities and find them as useful as we have.