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Central Asia and Mongolia. OSCE Sub-regional Expert Meeting on Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) In 2020, the OSCE Gender Issues Programme conducted a series of sub-regional expert meetings in order to take stock of progress towards fulfilment of OSCE commitments on preventing and combating violence against women and girls.The report summarizes the outcomes of the meeting aimed at exchanging information and identifying areas of progress as well as persistent challenges. 
The Culture of Tajikistan in the Context of Independence (Experience, Problems and Prospects of Development) Year of publication: 2017 Author: R. Amirov The article analyzes the state and prospects for the development of culture in context of independence. In the years of independence, the Republic of Tajikistan by external forces was dragged into civil wars, as a result of which it suffered huge losses in the field of economy and culture. It was not easy to restore peace, to preserve a rich national culture. During these years, the government of Tajikistan adopted normative and legislative acts and a number of state cultural programs that contributed to the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, as well as created the conditions for the revival and development of the national culture. 
Background paper: Coordination between Humanitarian and Development Work in the Education Sector: Working Together in a Crisis Context Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) The education sector is charged with a responsibility to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, per Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4). The current trend of complex and longer-term crises, whether caused by the climate emergency, violent conflict, or a pandemic, threatens progress toward SDG4 targets. As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, no country or education system is immune from crisis; therefore, building resilience is the key not only to avoiding losses but to sustaining and progressing toward our shared goals in the education sector. Collective action is needed across the humanitarian-development spectrum to build inclusive and adaptable education systems that are prepared for and have the capacity to respond to crises, so that every child and young person has a chance to go to school, stay in school, and complete a full cycle of primary and secondary education.This report is aimed at members of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), which includes a broad range of humanitarian, development, government, and civil society actors who are working to ensure that all individuals have the right to a quality, safe, relevant, and equitable education. The purpose of the report is to demystify the concept of humanitarian-development coherence and to propose a set of actions and recommendations to strengthen such coherence in the education sector. The report also provides guidelines for INEE members and education stakeholders to take collective action, and to advocate for improved coherence within their own agencies and across the education sector’s full spectrum of policy and programming.This report recapitulates the concept of humanitarian-development coherence and why it is critical, provides an overview of barriers to coherence in the education sector, identifies illustrative examples of coherent action, and offers concrete recommendations for improved coherence, as summed up through a “Learn-Convene-Adapt” framework.To explain the concept of humanitarian-development coherence, this paper adopts the New Ways of Working definition, which describes humanitarian-development coherence as working over multiple years toward collective outcomes, based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors (see definitions, p. 6). The paper argues that humanitarian-development coherence is critical to ensuring that all children have access to uninterrupted quality education, which promotes their increased resilience and overall development. While education can provide significant benefits for individuals, communities, and countries, establishing resilient education systems requires multi-year planning, coordination, and investment in the education sector.To unpack the bottlenecks to coherence in education, the paper uses the conceptual framework proposed in the USAID white paper, Education and Humanitarian-Development Coherence (Nicolai et al., 2019). This framework outlines three levels of action that influence conditions for coherence: Norms, Capacities, and Operations. The barriers identified and explored in the paper are the following: 
EIU Best Practices Series No.44: The Children’s Film Festival for Peace Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No. 44 introduces a project called “The Children’s Film Festival for Peace,” designed by a primary teacher in Indonesia to deliver EIU values to children in an easy and enjoyable way through an ICT class. The film themes which covered awareness on everyday social issues such as bullying, enabled students internalize the values of caring for others and sharing through acting, filming and creating. This exemplary project gives students a chance to bring their class learnings to life whilst spreading EIU values to their peers through their creations. 
The Course: Peacebuilding in Conflict Societies Decision Year of publication: 2022 Author: Omer Omran Corporate author: Baghdad University The course deals with the foundations, components, and mechanisms of the peace-building process in conflict societies with an analytical approach. A scientific framework through researching what are the mechanisms that enable a local or national response to the peace-building process and community rehabilitation for conflict societies is introduced. The course also talks about the continuous guidance to face the challenges posed by internal conflicts in the course of human existence first, progress and development and the establishment of the modernization project and national stability secondly. 
From Rhetoric to Action: Delivering Equality & Inclusion Year of publication: 2021 Author: Faiza Shaheen | Alexander Bossakov | Avner Cohen | Amanda Lenhardt | Nendirmwa Noel | Paula Sevilla Núñez | Paul von Chamier Corporate author: Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, NYU. Center on International Cooperation This flagship report of the Pathfinders Grand Challenge on Inequality and Exclusion is about the solutions that will deliver equality and inclusion.The report constructs a bridge between the rhetoric of “build back better” and action: a bridge between promise and progress. It underlines the need for renewed social contracts between citizens, civil society, the private sector, and governments, as well as between high and low- and middle-income countries. These social contracts must be built to serve future generations, to guard against climate breakdown and pandemics while delivering respect, opportunity, and justice for all.This report should serve as a practical handbook for policymakers and influencers; as a source of possibility for the public; and, as a call to all political leaders to act. 
A Training Manual: Women in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Year of publication: 2021 Author: Anne Speckhard Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) This publication serves as guidance for actors involved in the prevention and countering of violent extremism (P/CVE) in Europe and Central Asia including state officials, members of non-governmental organizations, community activists, staff of UN agencies, international and regional organizations to help them understand violent extremism’s gender dimensions. It is designed as a training guide, for staff and trainers who are working with different counterparts engaged in P/CVE, and want to help create more effective and gender-sensitive responses. Participants may for example include civil society activists, women leaders, teachers, journalists, lawyers, social workers, religious authorities, youth, police, local and national governmental officials. The five modules in this guide include learning objectives, explanatory text, warm-up activities, practical exercises, references for further reading and empirical experiences from the region of Europe and Central Asia. Modules may be used all together or one-by-one. The ideal timeframe for delivering the training using all the modules is at least two and a half days (half day per unit). The training is suitable for groups of five to twenty-five people. When organizing the workshop consider gender, age and diversity factors to have the richest learning experience possible. Participants should feel that they are in a safe space where they can openly share their ideas and experiences. Needed materials are indicated for the different exercises. As the guide is aimed at increasing the awareness of persons with different levels of sensitivity and knowledge on violent extremism and gender equality, across Europe and Central Asia, it is an introduction which readers should complement with other resources for deeper and more technical insights. The training should also be tailored to the participants’ interests and needs and to the local context. 
Violence and Urban Life Year of publication: 2011 Corporate author: Complexus Poverty is not the cause of violence in cities. In Brazil, an example used by the antrhopologist from the university of California interviewed by Eduard Punset, Teresa caldeira, and author of the book "Cities of walls", there was always poverty but the level of violence has viaried. In this video, the question is raised about how violence has changed and why this phenomenom has changed. 
Education for Learning to Live Together and Conflict Resolution Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: BBVA Aprendemos Juntos In this video, the teacher and pedagogue Nélida Zaitegi talks about her pedagogical proposal to learn to live together and resolve conflicts. He defends the so-called "soft skills", emotional intelligence and morals, which in schools should have as much presence as traditional subjects. He has been researching and developing educational innovation programs for more than forty years, based on positive coexistence and conflict resolution. 
Citizenship of a Culture of Peace Year of publication: 2021 Author: Graeme Simpson Corporate author: AL-andalus Educational Complex The video is a lesson from the social studies book for the tenth grade in the State of Qatar. The teacher explains citizenship for peace and its dissemination. The teacher begins by explaining the concept of a culture of peace and goes on to the principles of peace and the foundations for its dissemination. The class is suitable for Arab students in general to understand what peace is and how to spread it.