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Teaching Controversial Issues Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: Oxfam GB Young people frequently face making decisions about a wide range of issues on which there are many different views. Issues like sexuality, religion, bullying, and war can evoke complicated emotions, both in and out of the classroom.Young people need to develop skills that allow them to discuss and come to their own views about these types of issues. Having a chance to engage with controversial topics in a constructive environment will help young people to develop as global citizens, and teachers have a key role to play in enabling this.This guide explores what controversial issues are, why they should be taught, and includes classroom strategies, existing guidance and practical teaching activities. 
Annual Report for 2021 (UNODC Regional Office in Central Asia) Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UN. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) This Annual Report provides an account of the main results achieved by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Office for Central Asia (UNODC ROCA), in 2021. UNODC has stepped up efforts to help people in these challenging times, addressing emerging threats in line with human rights and gender equality standards, and the rule of law. Through our strategic interventions, we have contributed to strengthening peace, preventing conflict, and tackling the root causes and drivers of instability and violence. 
Countering Violent Extremism: An Introductory Guide to Concepts, Programming, and Best Practices Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Search for Common Ground This curriculum aims to update the best practices and experience gained in the process of countering violent extremism. The anti-violent extremism program, adapted for Central Asia, is designed to train civil servants and civil society organizations. This curriculum delivers a contextually literate countering violent extremism and awareness-raising training program that is relevant to your context in an accessible way. It highlights the benefits of collaborative approaches beyond the use of military or securitized responses to violent extremism, drawing on good practices, and offers tools and guidance for easy adaptation to your local context and cultures. Finally, it encourages the early identification and mitigation of risks with programming, as well as ensuring a Do No Harm approach.While this curriculum will offer guidance around how to design, implement, and monitor constructive responses to violent extremism, an understanding of project management is assumed. Therefore, it is not a training program on general project management skills, monitoring and evaluation, or on fundraising.Since the problem of violent extremism is complex and highly context-specific, it is also not a guide to the drivers of violent radicalization in your local context, nor does it proscribe the programs and policies that would be most effective. Instead, it introduces you to the guiding questions and tools necessary to make informed and effective choices in your own efforts to counter violent extremism. 
Addressing Anti-semitism through Education: Guidelines for Policymakers Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: OSCE. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights A new UNESCO and OSCE co-publication takes up the challenge of educating learners to resist contemporary anti-Semitism at a time when the issue is becoming ever more crucial around the world. It suggests concrete ways to address anti-Semitism, counter prejudice and promote tolerance through education, by designing programmes based on a human rights framework, global citizenship education, inclusiveness and gender equality.It also provides policymakers with tools and guidance to ensure that education systems build the resilience of young people to anti-Semitic ideas and ideologies, violent extremism and all forms of intolerance and discrimination, through critical thinking and respect for others. 
World Report on the Culture of Peace: Civil Society Report at Midpoint of the Culture of Peace Decade Year of publication: 2005 Corporate author: Foundation for a Culture of Peace The year 2005 marks the midpoint of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly.The present report has been submitted to the UN Secretary-General for the General Assembly's consideration at its next session under the relevant agenda item which will review the midpoint of the Culture of Peace Decade. This initiative responds to the invitation contained in operative paragraph 10 of General Assembly resolution A/59/143.The report is based on the accounts submitted by 700 organizations from all regions of the world. From the information received, it can be concluded that the culture of peace is advancing.The report provides the first comprehensive view of the progress made by the global movement for a culture of peace, since it was called for in 1999 by General Assembly resolution A/53/243 (annexed to the end of this report). 
What Does Peace Sound Like? Education for Coexistence Year of publication: 2015 Author: María Del Carmen Muñoz | Marco Fidel Vargas Corporate author: Center for Research and Popular Education / Program for Peace (CINEP/PPP) This podcast discusses education for peace in Colombia and how it contributes to overcoming violence and promoting coexistence. 
What Does Peace Sound Like? Reconciliation, an Exercise for Everyone Year of publication: 2015 Author: Leonel Narváez | Magda López | María Angéliza Bueno Corporate author: Center for Research and Popular Education / Program for Peace (CINEP/PPP) This podcast analyzes the concept of reconciliation and the challenges that Colombia faces in a possible post-agreement scenario with the FARC guerrilla. What contributions should be made from public policy to continue seeking paths for reconciliation? What is the role of citizens to carry out this process successfully? Are we ready to reconcile? 
Human Rights Defense in Colombia: A Bet in the Midst of Adversity Year of publication: 2015 Author: Petrit Baquero | Nancy Arévalo | Claudia Erazo Corporate author: Center for Research and Popular Education / Program for Peace (CINEP/PPP) This podcast analyzes the panorama of human rights in Colombia and the protection of its defenders, in a context full of challenges and threats to their lives. 
Basic Elements of Forgiveness and Reconciliation Theory Year of publication: 2018 Author: Leonel Narváez Gómez Corporate author: Fundación para la Reconciliación This text presents the theoretical bases for forgiveness and reconciliation that support the pedagogy and actions of the Foundation for Reconcilation. 
Multiculturalism and the Concept of Multi-Dimensional Identity Year of publication: 2009 Author: Mohamed Ben Jemaa Corporate author: King Saud University A conference paper discussing multiculturalism and contains two parts, where the first part discusses multiculturalism policies in 6 countries. While the second part shows the multi-dimensional identity.