Event Schedule and Speaker List Day 1 – Nov 27, 2024

Education for Peace

What is the role of education in building, safeguarding and sustaining long-lasting peace?
How do we ensure that education not only engages but addresses systemic inequities,
injustices, and inequalities? How do we transform education to nurture an awareness of interconnectedness
with humanity and planet Earth?

Secretary-General. United Nations

Director General UNESCO

Delegation of the Kingdom of Spain to UNESCO

President GPEN Advisory Council

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

Transformative Impact of Peace Education

What is peace education? How and where does it fit within education system’s broader engagement with peace and
conflict dynamics? How do we introduce and support peace education in learning spaces and the wider civil society?
What is the impact of peace education – what does it look like to experience or live in peace?

Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

Rector, UN University for Peace (GPEN-AC)

Founder, Philanthropy Cortes Solari

President, Spanish Federation of UNESCO Clubs

Founder, Peace Education Program, TPRF (GPEN-AC)

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

Peace Education for Human Security, Health and Wellbeing

What are the ways that peace education builds safe, healthy and fulfilling lives for people everywhere?
What competencies are essential? What practical measures and resources are required to make this happen?

Chief of Section, Global Citizenship and Peace Education

President, World Academy of Art & Science (GPEN-AC)

Founder, Philanthropy Cortes Solari

Global Health and Development Advisor

MSC, Founder and Executive Director, UNITE 4 Health, NGO, Youth Representative

UNESCO SDG 4 Youth and Student Network; Member, Refugee Education Council

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

 Peace Education for Human Rights & Justice

What are the ways that peace education contributes to the realization of human rights, gender equality and justice?
What are the impacts of the digital era? What innovations in our ways of thinking, systems and institutions are required
to make this happen?

Assistant Director-General, Social & Human Sciences, UNESCO

former UN Undersecretary General and High Representative (GPEN-GAC)

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (GPEN-AC)

Senegalese Jurist, Human Rights Expert (GPEN-AC)

Founder, Labhya Foundation

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

Event Schedule and Speaker List Day 2 – Nov 28, 2024

Peace Education for Sustainability

What are the ways that peace education develops connectedness with the planet and responsibility for
its stewardship? How does peace education lay the foundation for sustainable progress and prosperity?
What competencies are essential? What practical measures and resources are required to make this happen?

Founder, Green Hope Foundation

President, Philanthropy Cortes Solari

Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace

President & Director General, Global Citizenship Foundation

Indigenous Climate Activist and Environmental Defender, U.S. Based Indigenous Wisdom Keepers

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

Empowering the Culture of Peace

What are the ways that peace education promotes transformation to the Culture of Peace? How do culture and
the arts ground and energize peace education? What are some interesting and replicable practices can we draw
on to harness the transformative potential of culture and the arts? What does a culture of peace look like?

Under-Secretary-General and High Representative, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations

Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO

Deputy Mayor for the Culture of Peace, La Bouilladisse, France

Co-Founder, ChezaCheza Foundation; Youth Leader, Kibera’s Dance School

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

Mobilisation for Peace Education: Next Steps

How do we catalyze a dramatic expansion of peace education worldwide? What data is available, what more is
needed? What actions are required and how do we collaborate to achieve them? How do we measure success?

Manager, International Institute for Peace Education / Global Campaign for Peace Education NGO

UNESCO

Student Representative, King’s College, London

USG for International Delegations-URJCMUN

CEO, Global Peace Education Network

Breakout Sessions and Working Groups

Call to Action for the Culture of Peace

How do we transform to the Culture of Peace? How do different generations inspire each other?
How do community actors and policymakers cooperate? How do we translate passion, enthusiasm,
expertise and wisdom into synchronized action?

President GPEN Advisory Council, former Director General, UNESCO

former UN Undersecretary General and High Representative (GPEN-GAC)

Founder, Peace Education Program, TPRF (GPEN-AC)

Founder of LEIZEA Youth Organization, Delegate of BAES-UCM, GPEN

Student Liaison at Trinity Office of International Students and Scholars

Indigenous Climate Activist and Environmental Defender

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