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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Figures
Figure 1: Climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg. Vanessa Nakate: used under licence from Reuters News and Media Ltd ; Greta Thunberg Per Grunditz/Shutterstock.
Figure 2: Book Cover, Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter , Harper Collins (2018).
Figure 3: A photograph from theatre production Glasgow Girls. Glasgow Girls, 2012, a National Theatre of Scotland Production. Photo credit: Drew Farrell.
Activities
Activity 1: diagram adapted from: Standish, K. (2019) (p. 6) ‘Learning How to Hope: A Hope Curriculum’, Humanity & Society, 43, p. 484–504.
Activity 6: extract from Teaching Controversial Issues: A guide for teachers (p. 3). Teaching Controversial Issues: A guide for teachers – Oxfam Policy & Practice, published by Oxfam Education.
Videos
Video 1: Introduction, © The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain for images and video, www.quaker.org.uk
Video 2: Never give up: Retelling Wangari’s Trees of Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKdWEkOPLkw&t=1s0 courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk
Video 3 and video 4: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School. ‘Something will be different’ Building Peace in Schools, courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk
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