Peace Education Program
University of Zakho is working together with staff members of the HWPL organization on peace education field, to create citizens of peace with the spirit and values of peace, and cultivate citizens of peace who recognize, acknowledge, and accept diversity. Iraq is one of the countries that have/ had lots of political conflicts, wars, ethnic backgrounds, and so on. When such subject and values are implemented, internalized, and characterized within the students. The students become the citizens of peace, and peace messengers. To make a culture of peace for our next generation, the University of Zakho is working with HWPL since 2020 and signed an MoU in 2021. During these years the university gave various courses and workshops about peace education to its students. Moreover, a number of teachers from university of Zakho are assigned and involved in this program, Now the peace education is implemented as a required module in two of our main colleges the College of Basic Education and Faculty of Education. The module materials are based on the textbooks of HWPL Peace Education, that places great emphasis on transforming all kinds of violent cultures caused by conflicts into a culture of peace. We believe that Peace can be achieved through education. Therefore, the training and educating people to become “citizens of peace” would continue in our university as the rest of the partners of HWPL organization, to spread a culture of peace in all parts of the world and to transform the future of the global community into a better world.
Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL)
- Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), an international peace organization with branches in 170 countries, was founded by Mr. MAN HEE LEE in 2013 for global peace and cessation of war. Also, it is a non-governmental organization in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and associated with the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC) and the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With the mission to achieve global peace through the heavenly culture and restore the world with light, HWPL is carrying out its peace movement around the globe, working with its partner, the International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG), and its affiliate organization, the International Peace Youth Group (IPYG).
The Importance of Peace Education
refers to the process of promoting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to bring about behavior changes that will enable the children, youth and adults to prevent conflict and violence Peacefully:
1. Peace Education prepares the world for children and youth by making it better, healthy, peaceful, united and safe and to prepare the children for such a world.
2. It encourages the search for alternatives as well as possible non-violent skills and sharpens the awareness about the existence of holistic relationships, between people and within and between nations.
3. Peace Education assists the participating populations in establishing an all-inclusive civilization of peace as well as tries to investigate the causes of conflicts and violence, embedded within the values, perception and attitudes of the individuals within the social as well as political structure of the society.
4. Peace Education helps to develop the values and skills to assist the students in striving for the fullness of life through the creation of constructive behaviours for dealing with problems so as to minimize and eliminate conflict. It also helps to explore peace both as a state of being and as an active process for the promotion of positive human relations.
5. Demonstrate factual knowledge about environment.
6. Help students to participate in diversity activities.
7. students can learn from nature that living in harmony is the notion of “respect.” Going beyond the level of simply “acknowledging” each other’s differences. we need to “respect” each other to live in harmony together.
TeachersMOD Project:
Future Elementary School Teachers
Modernization in Kurdistan
European Commission, Erasmus+, KA2 – Capacity-building in the Field of Higher Education. The project has been funded with support from the European Union.
Start Date: February 1, 2023
End Date: January 31, 2025
Action plan for humanities and social sciences departments of the basic education faculties in the 5-partner country HEIs
INTRODUCTION
Based on the results of the Benchmark study (WP2), the Kurdish universities coordinated by UNIPV and Zakho University, leaders of WP3, have jointly worked to conduct a review of the academic offer in the Colleges of Basic Education through an action plan definition. The aim of this process is to equip KRI partner universities with strategies to enhance students’ engagement and the quality of the academic offer at the Colleges of Basic Education.
The main steps to achieve this task are:
To ensure concrete and sustainable results, the Action Plans begin by tackling some fundamental instruments of students’ engagement. In particular, they focus on integrating new teaching methodologies in the courses taught and in improving processes of syllabus development and review.
The Action Plans constitute an initial space to foster inter-university collaborations and the sharing of knowledge, experiences, and expertise among the KRI partners. They will rely on the work of three inter-university working groups for enhancing the academic offer at the Colleges of Basic Education, with a specific focus on:
To ensure continuity and coherence between the training activities (WP4) and the implementation of project actions within the Colleges of Basic Education at KRI partner universities, the inter- university working groups are constituted by the participants in the training activities (WP4). The composition of the groups is based on affinities between the participants’ research and teaching disciplines and the actions outlined in the Action Plans (see appendix 1). The recommendations of the inter-university working groups will be applied within each KRI partner university according to the contextual needs, academic mission, and vision. The Action Plans will thus benefit from a regional perspective on HEI’s capacity-building but will be operationalised autonomously within each specific academic environment.
RISE - Reinforcing lntegration of Skills for Employability and lnternationalisation in Kurdistan region of lraq
Erasmus+ Programme, Project Number: 101179468
Project website:
Project Title: Access program at University of Zakho funded by U.S General Consulate in Kurdistan
Access classes are set to begin on Saturday February 1st at the University of Zakho campus, College of Economics & Administration, on the 1st Floor. Wednesday classes are held at the Presidency Building, on the 3rd Floor.
Access program activities:
more than 100 students from Zakho schools in grades 7 and 8 will be participating in a comprehensive two-year program focused on enhancing their English language skills, social and personality development, and technology skills. This program will take place at the University of Zakho campus and will include both internal and external field visits organized by the Amideast organization, in collaboration with the U.S. General Consulate in Kurdistan. All activities associated with this program will be fully funded by the U.S. General Consulate.
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