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UNESCO's role in promoting education as a tool to prevent violent extremism Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The Director-General reports on the progress made on the implementation of 197 EX/Decision 46 on “UNESCO’s role in promoting education as a tool to prevent violent extremism”. This report presents the activities that have been implemented as well as those that are underway to take forward the Decision. 
Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Event on Education for Preventing Violent Extremism; Brussels, 21 March 2017 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) This address was delivered by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Event on Education for Preventing Violent Extremism. 
Declaração e Plano de Ação Integrado sobre a Educação para a Paz, os Direitos Humanos e a Democracia Year of publication: 1995 Corporate author: UNESCO This document is Declaration of the 44th session of the International Conference on Education (Geneva, October 1994) endorsed by the General Conference Declaration of the 44th session of the International Conference on Education (Geneva, October 1994) endorsed by the General Conference of UNESCO at its twenty-eight session Paris, November 1995 of UNESCO at its twenty-eight session Paris, November 1995. Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Cooperation and Peace and Education Relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by the General Conferences at its 18th session, Paris, 19 November 1974 Year of publication: 1974 Corporate author: UNESCO Following is the authentic text of the Recommendation duly adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization during its eighteenth session, which was held in Paris and declared closed the twenty-third day of November 1974. The General Conference recommends that Member States should submit to provisions as follows: to apply the following provisions by taking whatever legislative or other steps may be required in conformity with the Constitutional practice of each State to give effect within their respective territories to the principles set forth in this recommendation; to bring this recommendation to the attention of the authorities, departments or bodies responsible for school education, higher education and out-of-school education, of the various organizations carrying out educational work among young people and adults such as student and youth movements, associations of pupils’ parents, teachers’ unions and other interested parties; to submit to it, by dates and in the form to be decided upon by the Conference, reports concerning the action taken by them in pursuance of this recommendation. 
Declaration and Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy Year of publication: 1995 Corporate author: UNESCO This document is Declaration of the 44th session of the International Conference on Education (Geneva, October 1994) endorsed by the General Conference Declaration of the 44th session of the International Conference on Education (Geneva, October 1994) endorsed by the General Conference of UNESCO at its twenty-eight session Paris, November 1995 of UNESCO at its twenty-eight session Paris, November 1995. Inter-agency peace education programme: skills for constructive living; overview of the programme Year of publication: 2005 Author: Antonella Verdiani Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This manual is one of the components of the “Inter-Agency Peace Education Programme”. The programme is designed for education managers of ministries dealing with both formal and non-formal education and for agencies which implement education activities on behalf of the government. The implementation structure is based on the experience acquired over the eight years the programme has been in use, from 1998 to 2005. The programme has been evaluated by external experts and the new revised materials (2005) incorporate both the suggestions made in the evaluation and the feedback from the specialists who implemented it in the field. 
The contribution of early childhood education to a sustainable society Year of publication: 2008 Corporate author: UNESCO This report originates from the international workshop, ‘The Role of Early Childhood Education for a Sustainable Society’, jointly organized in Göteborg, Sweden, by Göteborg University, Chalmers University of Technology and the City of Göteborg, from 2 to 4 May 2007. It was attended by thirty-five participants from sixteen different countries (see ‘List of Participants’). The workshop was a follow-up to the international conference on education for sustainable development, ‘Learning to Change Our World’, held in May 2004, in Göteborg. It was one of four preparatory workshops leading to another international conference on education for sustainable development, to be organized in 2008 or 2009, in the same city. The aim of the four workshops is to discuss promoters and barriers related to learning for sustainability, and to propose recommendations for the upcoming international conference. The present workshop was conceived for the following reasons. First, our societies urgently require new kinds of education that can help prevent further degradation of our planet, and that foster caring and responsible citizens genuinely concerned with and capable of contributing to a just and peaceful world. Second, these new kinds of education must be available to all – not only a handful of people – and take place in various settings, including families and communities. Third, they must begin in early childhood, as the values, attitudes, behaviours and skills acquired in this period may have a long-lasting impact in later life. Thus, early childhood education clearly has an important place in the efforts to bring about sustainable development. 
Peace: building sustainable peace and global citizenship through education;Global education monitoring report summary 2016 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO The 2016 GEM Report, the first of a new 15-year series, shows that education will not deliver its full potential to catapult the world forward unless rates of improvement dramatically shift, and education systems consider sustainable development in the way services are delivered. This Peace: Building sustainable peace and global citizenship through education publication is a select extract from the full 2016 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all. It contains two chapters from that full Report – one on peace, political participation and access to justice and the other on education for global citizenship and sustainable development — , along with the associated policy recommendations and a short section of a recent GEM Report Policy Paper Textbooks pave the way to sustainable development. 
Textbooks pave the way to sustainable development (Policy paper 28) Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO This paper’s focus on textbooks is directly related to the global indicator established for Target 4.7, which seeks to measure the extent to which global citizenship education and education for sustainable development, including gender equality and human rights, are mainstreamed in national education policies, curricula, teacher education and student assessments. Textbooks are related mostly to policy implementation and curricular intentions but also to teacher preparation and student assessment. Learning to live together: education for conflict resolution, responsible citizenship, human rights and humanitarian norms Year of publication: 2013 Author: Margaret Sinclair Corporate author: Education Above All (Qatar) Education cannot offer immediate remedies to the local and global problems that we see on the news screens every day, but it can contribute to solving them over the longer term. This book examines specifically the contribution that education for learning to live together can make, even in countries where teacher training and classroom resources are limited. Many countries have diverse populations (ethnic, linguistic, religious, etc) and seek to maintain harmony among the different groups. In some countries, however, especially where economic stress or climate change have intensified arguments over resources, tensions have led to armed conflict. This brings with it all the misery of death, injury, displacement and poverty, along with disruption of education systems. In some instances education itself has been a contributory factor to the outbreak of conflict, notably through unequal education opportunities for different groups, and through biased school curricula.Civil conflict has brought untold suffering in recent years, and in a globalised world it has negative spill-over effects to neighbouring and other countries. It is vital to develop education policies and curricular reforms that can help convey values and skills for learning to live together to young people, to help lessen tensions, within and between countries.Education policy-makers can help lay the foundations for a better future by adjusting the content and process of education to reflect skills and values for human rights, humanitarian norms, peaceful resolution of conflicts, sustainable development and other issues as elements of local, national and global citizenship.Education reform is not enough, of course, to resolve the numerous problems of our times. The focus of this volume is on the contribution that can be made through aligning the content of education to the goal of learning to live together. This work will have greater impact when it takes place within education systems and policies that are consistent with human rights values and of course when other sectors besides education make their respective contributions.This book shows that transformative education for conflict resolution and peace, for local, national and global citizenship, for human rights and humanitarian values can be implemented even under difficult conditions if there is a policy commitment to do so. Authors have provided examples and lessons learned from their own experiences as eminent practitioners in the field.