AEU Vic Resolution: Educating for Peace
The Australian Education Union reiterates and strengthens its longstanding commitment to peace.
NYSF: Drop your harmful sponsor
Teachers for Peace asks the National Youth Science Forum to cut ties with Lockheed Martin, a company profiting from humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Conversation about Palestine should happen at school
The way that past wars are taught, and the way that current wars are interpreted at school, shapes society’s relationship to armed conflict.
UNESCO adopts guidance on education for peace
UNESCO Member States have adopted the Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development at UNESCO’s General Conference in November.
Educators Reject Defence Interference
STEM programs that associate with the weapons industry should be on notice: unions reject the use of schools for the promotion of lethal industries.
Government’s AUKUS Program is More Distortion of Education
Investment in AUKUS skills is a diversion of public money away from the common good.
‘On Peace’: NSWTF Conference Decision
NSWTF has adopted a powerful position on education for peace, not war.
TFP in the IEU’s The Point
The Independent Education Union's official newspaper carried an excerpt from Teachers for Peace.
UNESCO: Education of All, For Peace
Last month, UNESCO member states – Australia amongst them – agreed to update a landmark 1974 Recommendation. The Recommendation set out international principles and standards for education, and articulated education’s vital role in building international understanding, and preserving human rights…
The Guardian: Children must be protected from companies that profit from war
Teachers for Peace features in Paul Daley’s latest column for The Guardian. In an opinion piece on the increasing militarisation of STEM education – including by the Department of Defence – columnist Paul Daley argues that “childhood and youth should…