International Day of Peace

• A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

  This Open University podcast discusses the ways in which The Good Friday Agreement changed our communities, arts, sports, and lives.

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• Saving Setrus: To Intervene or not to Intervene

  A neighbouring state is falling into war. You're the Prime Minister - can you use your political capital to legally intervene? Should you even try?

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• Principles and practices of peace education

  Principles and practices of peace education explores how peace might be built in everyday classroom practice. It can be used as individual study or as a basis for CPD with a larger group. It introduces layers of peace education for children and young people, including inner-peace and wellbeing; interpersonal peace through positive relationships ...

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• Rights and justice in international relations

  Can the concept of human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it realistic, or even desirable, to aim at an international system based on universal principles of justice? This free course, Rights and justice in international relations, takes a critical view of the assumption that 'rights are a good thing' and ...

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• A Peace of Us: a musical playlist for The Good Friday Agreement

  This playlist features a selection of tunes chosen to accompany the celebration of 25 years of The Good Friday Agreement.

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• Political ordering

  This free course, Political ordering, asks questions about what states are and how they are involved in the processes of governing and ordering social life. Building from an awareness of just how much of everyday life involves the state, the course questions whether states have this authority to govern. It also asks about situations in which ...

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• Human rights and law

  Human rights now seem to take precedent over many areas of our lives, but where do these rights come from and how did they develop? This free course, Human rights and the law, looks at the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and its influence on law in the UK and examines the Human Rights Act 1998.

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• Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

  Developing intercultural competence can help people interact well across differences. Lucy Henning and Ellis Brooks explain how relationships that work well are key to building peaceful school communities.

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• Christmas at war: 1918 - At peace, but not at home

  The war may have ended in November, but some men who had been captured were still facing a Christmas in the prison camps.

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• Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace

  A story of change, drawing on the thoughts of some of those who made the ceasefires and the political agreement in Northern Ireland possible.

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• Podcast Art Gallery: A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

  This interactive digital gallery showcases the artwork submitted by final year illustration students from Ulster University who entered a competition to design the cover art for our Good Friday Agreement Podcast.

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• The ethics of cultural heritage

  This free course, The ethics of cultural heritage, provides the basic theory behind the protection of cultural property in war zones and is presented in three parts: the protection of cultural property; the legal basis for that protection; and accounts of proportionality (that is, on deciding whether or not there is a feasible alternative to ...

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