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BUILDING PEACE
To build peace, we need to understand the conditions for its growth, and develop the skills to overcome obstacles without recourse to self-perpetuating violence.
+ Crucially the coming generation needs to learn that neither violence nor threats of violence are the means for achieving a just or lasting peace.
+ The Trust initiates and supports projects and resources for teachers, parents and students, which offer a clear and challenging approach to the complex issue of war and peace and promote a better understanding of conflict and its nonviolent resolution.
Your support will help develop and expand this work and make resources available to a wider audience.
+ Our aim is to provide easy access and the necessary balance of material on issues related to peace and war and where appropriate match resources to the requirements of the National Curriculum. We also want to examine and publicise ways in which teachers and students are themselves dealing with issues of war, violence and peace. Material for the citizenship section of the curriculum in also in preparation.
recent projects
Remembering War – is a teaching pack designed to raise often ignored issues about war, peace and remembrance; it including teachers’ notes and suggestions for projects, discussions and activities.
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Working Together: a handbook for co-operation, is an imaginative and practical introduction to co-operative skills, written primarily for parents, teachers, and anyone working with young people.
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Saying No to Violence: children and peace – is a publication which casts a critical look at the way we teach children to accept violence as natural and inevitable, suggesting alternative strategies to bring up children to act, and think, nonviolently; it containins suggestions for parents and teachers including lesson plans.
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Voices for Peace interactive CD explores proposals and activities that question the institution of war over the course of human history and gives the lie to the view that we are an inescapably warlike species. Through text, audio and video and the voices and experiences of conscientious objectors and others who have worked for peace during the last century, it looks at some of the seminal events which have made today’s world and present the ‘alternatives’ to war that are being actively developed.
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Refusing to Kill: conscientious objection in World War One brings the ignored but often dramatic stories of COs to life.
The book brings to a wider audience the radical struggle against war and comes with separate resources including lesson plans, original documents for teachers and pupils.
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This is a new project whose aim is to reclaim the lost voices of the young men, many of whom languished in prison, often in solitary confinement and who risked loss of family support, and social ostracism because of their refusal to take part in war.