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Ending Violence in Schools : An Investment Case Year of publication: 2021 Author: Quentin Wodon | Chloë Fèvre | Chata Malé | Ada Nayihouba | Hoa Nguyen Corporate author: World Bank Preventing violence in and through school is a prerequisite for girls and boys getting the education they need and deserve, and acquiring the skills, knowledge and values that provide the foundations for strong and inclusive societies. This report demonstrates that violence in and around schools negatively impacts educational outcomes, and society pays a heavy price as a result (with an estimate of $11 trillion in lost lifetime earnings). Cost-benefit analyses suggest that implementing interventions to prevent violence in and through schools from early childhood to secondary education is a smart economic investment. Rigorously evaluated programs and policies aimed at preventing violence at different levels of the education system show that action is feasible. The benefits of investing in preventing violence in and through schools is likely to far outweigh the costs. 
From Justice for the Past to Peace and Inclusion for the Future: A Development Approach to Transitional Justice Year of publication: 2020 Author: Lorena Mellado | Chelsea Shelton | Aparna Basnyat | Krishna Velupillai | Chris Mahoney | Djordje Djordjević Corporate author: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Comprehensive transitional justice processes supports the achievement of Agenda 2030, by promoting justice, peace, quality education and gender equality as a vehicle towards for more inclusive justice systems.Through more than 10 years, UNDP has been supporting transitional justice processes with an integrated approach to support sustaining peace. This strategic report covers a wide range of UNDP’s support to transitional justice processes providing good practices, country cases and key strategic alliances with UN partners, such as OHCHR, UN Women, and UN peace missions.The report looks to: Outline the main areas of UNDP’s work in transitional justice Share successful experiences and current challenges from countries around the world Offer recommendations for strategic transitional justice programmingThe key areas highlighted in the report are participatory processes, institutional transformation for proper accountability, reparations programmes and conflict prevention and sustaining peace to promote resilience and social cohesion for affected communities.Key lessons and recommendations are also outlined for practitioners to consider when designing and implementing transitional justice programmes and to draw out key findings and recommendations as well as identifies opportunities for more investment in transitional justice moving forward. 
The Role of the Teacher in Spreading the Culture of Peace among Secondary School Students in Riyadh Year of publication: 2015 Author: Ali bin Saad Al-Qahtani Corporate author: Fayoum University The study aimed to identify the role of the teacher in spreading the culture of peace among secondary school students in the city of Riyadh, and to clarify the statistically significant differences among the sample members in relation to the role of the teacher in spreading the culture of peace among secondary school students in Riyadh from the point of view of students and teachers. The study population included all day public high school students and teachers in the city of Riyadh, which numbered (51044) students and (3564) teachers. 
Women: Dispossessed Bodies and Territories in the Bajo Atrato Year of publication: 2022 Author: Magda Rocio Martínez Montoya Corporate author: Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP) The violence exerted against the bodies of women is also a violence exerted against the territories. For the black, indigenous and mestizo women of the Bajo Atrato, their bodies are a substantive part of the territories and, from there, they have built and defended it. The rivers, swamps and streams are the extension of their arms and legs, waters in which they remain submerged carrying out daily tasks together with other women, their sons and daughters. In said construction and defense, their body-territories have been severely dispossessed and violated. However, they have fought and resisted, and continue to do so despite enormous risks, serious human rights violations and state abandonment. In Women: dispossessed bodies and territories in the Bajo AtratoAnalytical and contextual elements are presented that help to understand the complex relationship between gender-based violence and the processes of defending the rights to land and territory. With the delivery of this report to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the CINEP/PPP and the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace, within the framework of the Vamos por la Paz project, provide relevant information to case 004, which prioritizes the events that occurred in the region of Urabá, Bajo Atrato and Darién. 
Experiences and Narratives of Women Leaders and Defenders of Chocó, Nariño, Antioquia and Cauca in the Implementation of the PDET Year of publication: 2022 Author: María Alejandra López Mendoza | María Adelaida Palacio Puerta | María Camila Barrera Gutiérrez | Javier Lautaro Medina Bernal Corporate author: Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP) This document describes the experiences and narratives of women and women leaders and defenders of Choco, Nariño, Antioquia and Cauca in the implementation of the Development Programs with a Territorial Approach (PDET) are a state planning and management instrument that seeks to implement prioritized and coordinated manner the sectoral plans and programs within the framework of the Comprehensive Rural Reform (RRI), in coordination with the territorial development plans, in the 16 subregions that group the 170 prioritized municipalities, and thus contribute to the structural and comprehensive transformation of the field. 
Prevention of Violence in Educational Institutions of the Kyrgyz Republic Year of publication: 2015 Author: D. Abdyldaeva | V. Gorkina Corporate author: UNESCO The methodological manual provides information on the nature and causes of violence in educational institutions, its forms and consequences; parties involved; ways to prevent and resolve conflict situations. Particular attention is paid to gender-based violence. The manual provides practical advice on organizational and educational measures, and algorithms for the actions of the management and staff of an educational organization to respond to facts of violence and provide assistance to victims. 
Can Tolerance Policy Be an Effective Tool for Conflict Prevention in Tajikistan? Year of publication: 2020 Author: Aziz Timurov Corporate author: Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR) | Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) There are no visible conflicts on the basis of ethnic-religious hostility in Tajikistan. However, if the problem is not visible, this does not mean that it does not exist, said Aziz Timurov, participant of the CABAR.asia School of Analytics. In his opinion, a well-developed and applicable tolerance policy can mitigate potential ethnic-religious and regional conflicts and be a factor in economic development in Tajikistan. 
Features of Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism in Kazakhstan Year of publication: 2019 Author: Anna Gusarova Corporate author: Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR) | Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) «In Kazakhstan there is no term as “violent extremism” in the conceptual construct, and as a result at the legislative level. Too vague definition of the terms extremism and terrorism significantly complicates the work on prevention and counteraction», – said Anna Gusarova, an expert in international security, director of the Central Asian Institute for Strategic Studies, in her article written specifically for CABAR.asia. 
Transformative Education: Bridging Education for Change Year of publication: 2021 Author: Jana Arbeiter | Maja Bučar Corporate author: Bridge 47 This publication suggests that improvements in the areas of coordination, cooperation, awareness raising and capability development are needed, as outlined in the recommendations below. Policies and strategies at national, regional and global level should adopt overarching visions for transformative education in the form of overarching strategies for SDG Target 4.7. Mechanisms for coordination and collaboration between the different components of SDG Target 4.7 should be established at national, regional and global levels. Awareness of the role of transformative education and SDG Target 4.7 in contributing to more just and sustainable futures should be raised jointly between the different components of SDG Target 4.7. Opportunities for capacity building and upskilling of practitioners and learners linked to transformative education should be enabled and created at national, regional and global levels. 
Spreading a Culture of Peace and Tolerance in the World: What Should We Do? Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: TRENDS Research & Advisory The video is a symposium, moderated by Emirati researcher and writer Mohammed Khalfan Al Sawafi. The symposium focuses on six main axes: “Religious discourse and the importance of confronting hate speech and extremism, the Human Fraternity Document as a framework for promoting the values of peace and tolerance around the world, and human rights as an entry point for promoting a culture of tolerance and peace, making it an entry point to confront the conflicts of the world and the region, and ways to strengthen it in the region and the world, and toward a vision common for a more peaceful and tolerant world. The video interviews a group of specialists.