BBC Documentaries
BBC World Service Documentaries can be heard on Radio NZ National. On the BBC site you can listen to the audio or download as a podcast.
Two of recent audio documentaries are
Dot.Com Camps
Using the internet to address structural violence – poverty, unemployment
The Kill Factor (2 parts)
Soldiers talk about killing and how the effect this has on them. These discussions address the spectrum of experiences related to war and violence. These audios could be used to facilitate discussion about controversial issues such as militarisation, conscription, deaths of civilians, returning soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder.
Part 1
Part 2
More documentaries
Film Curriculum Guides
Find out how teachers can use a range of films/documentaries related to war, violence and other critical social issues.
Amnesty International USA provides detailed companion curriculum guides for teachers.
To download the curriculum guides
To find read Wikipedia summaries of the films/documentaries covered in the curriculum guides
Are you already teaching peace?
You Might be Teaching Peace If…
Member of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network, Cheryl Duckworth posts a blog to say teachers are probably already teaching peace.
Find out if you are already teaching peace. Read the posts by others.
Think about the other ways you address peace issues in your classroom.
Let us know what you do in your day-to-day teaching.
TED Video Presentations
James Nachtwey
TED Prize – Searing Photographs of Violence
These extraordinary photographs document the impacts of wars, conflicts and critical social issues. WARNING The talk contains graphic images of violence.
Link to TED video presentation here
More…
Zoe Weil
TEDxDirigo – The world becomes what you teach
Institute for Humane Education talks about creating a just, compassionate health world through solutionary education.
Link to TED video presentation here
More…
The Institute for Humane Education
Institute for Humane Education videos
John Hunter
TEDTalks – The World Peace Game
Link to TED video presentation here
More…
A note from John Hunter after his talk
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements – The documentary
TED Themes : War and Peace
2011 Global Peace Index
New Zealand is rated as the second most peaceful nation. What do you think about this?
Is the world now less peaceful? What does this mean for you and your students/young people?
More about the 2011 Global Peace Index (GPI) results
http://www.economicsandpeace.org/
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/info-center/global-peace-index-2011/
School bullying and adult violence
Research Paper
School Bullying Perpetration and Other Childhood Risk Factors as Predictors of Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration
Falb, McCauley, Decker, Gupta, Raj, & Silverman. Published online June 6, 2011.
Peace Counts reporting
Media journalists and photographers report on peacemaking and nonviolent solutions to conflicts around the world. Access a range of photographs and reports from conflict zones.
http://www.aja-online.org/en/peace-counts/reportagen/
Peace is the theme of the broader website supported by the Advanced Journalism Academy:
“Peace Counts underlines the work and methods of successful peacemakers all over the world. They are the subject of texts, photographs and reports for radio and television published in quality media and are also part of exhibitions showed in conflict regions as well as in Germany. They are accompanied by peace educational seminars and journalist trainings. We learn and cooperate with colleagues from developing countries during shared researches and media productions.”
Search the ERIC database
ERIC – the Education Research Information Centre
This database contains bibliographic records of peace education research and reports plus access to some full text files.
- Visit http://www.eric.ed.gov/
- Search term peace education
- Check the Authors and the comprehensive list of Thesaurus Descriptors to narrow your search.
Campaign for the Human Right to Peace
The National Academy for Peace – Peacebuilder Teleconference Dialogue, 19 April 2011
Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury of the United Nations discusses the vision and goals of the campaign for the Human Right to Peace.
Find out how
- civil society can shape the political climate and promote the campaign for the human right to peace
- formal and non-formal peace education at all levels can contribute to the changes in worldviews, attitudes and behaviors necessary for personal, social and political transformations and a culture of peace.
