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Principles and practices of peace education
Principles and practices of peace education

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Lucy Henning, Isabel (Izzy) Cartwright and Ellis Brooks and was first published in December 2024. The course authors would like to acknowledge Woodbrooke Study Centre who created peace education programmes run in partnership with Quakers in Britain, that provided ideas and inspiration that fed into this course. Thanks also to Mirjam Hauck, Dominic Servis and the team at the OCLC for their support in creating this course.

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Course Image: Courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk

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Figure 1: Explanation of a circle from Peacemakers from: Learning for Peace :A guide to developing outstanding SMSC in your Primary School peacemakers.org.uk/resources/learning-for-peace-book/ Used with permission

Figure 2: Diagram of a circle session from Peacemakers diagram from: peacemakers educating for peace (p. 2) peacemakers.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Online-safety-CT-sessions2.pdf peacemakers.org.uk

Figure 3: adapted from (p. 12) Conflict Management and Peace Building in everyday life. resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/resourcekit-web.pdf/Save the children, resourcecentre.savethechildren.net, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en

Figure 4: An extract from Learning for Peace (p. 59) Learning for Peace , Peacemakers, Lifeworlds Learning, lifeworlds.co.uk

Figure 5:  Book cover: My Name is Sangoel (2009) by Karen Williams and Khadra Mohammed (illustrated by Catherine Stock) Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., www.eerdmans.com/ Used with permission

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