Imagine NextGen Voices  Reflect on Peace Curriculum
 

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What does peace mean to me? I never know, because I never had the chance to taste it.
You can’t make peace if you know nothing about it.
— Quote SourMira Sadawi, filmmaker, artist, Lebanonce

This multimedia-based curriculum aims to develop and deepen students’ understanding of the complexities of peace through a robust youth-centered curriculum with an emphasis on narratives of post-conflict life, transitional justice, and peace.

 The curriculum has been built around a year-long project in which Generation Human Rights youth fellows have conducted interviews with peers from the countries covered in the book, Imagine, Reflections on Peace. The interviews explore the commonality and diversity of youth experiences growing up in the aftermath of war, diving deeper into what peace truly is and whether it exists in the aftermath of war.

Imagine: NextGen Voices Reflect on Peace Curriculum is designed as a series of modules based on youth-led interviews in numerous post-war countries. Country-specific contexts are used as a foundational springboard to explore larger ideas around conflict resolution and prevention as a means for creating peace in the aftermath of war. Common themes are woven into each of the modules, including inner and outer peace, rights and freedom, dialogue and conflict resolution, identities and othering, and more.

 The curriculum:

· Guides learners through a dialogical process in collaboration with their peers to think and develop ideas based on core human rights’ principles that foster peace within local and global contexts.

· Allows learners to understand the complex, multifaceted nature of peace.

· Offers opportunities for students to bear witness to the power of their generation’s inherited collective memory.

· Provides participants (or students?) tools to use their learning to transform the present into an imagined peaceful future.