SEL for Youth Waging Peace
SEL for Youth waging peace course Addresses the SDG 4, SDG 16 and Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) Agenda needs. Targeting mainly for an 18+ audience, including higher education students, practitioners/peacebuilders, and faculties, this equips learners with social, emotional, and critical thinking skills to tackle challenging violent situations and to become resilient peacebuilders. It develops resilience from receiving a trauma, – and system-informed interventions to social cohesion, conflict transformation, peacebuilding and individual-community resilience in which the competencies of mindfulness, empathy, compassion and critical inquiry are established and strengthened along with systems thinking, non-violent actions and media-information literacy.
Course Details
Youth 18+
Target audience
16 hours
Course duration
English
Languages available
Free Certificate
Upon course completion
Self Paced
Course direction
FramerSpace
UNESCO MGIEP Learning platform
Course Learnings
Competencies you will gain
Social emotional skills
Critical inquiry
System thinking
Media literacy
Aimed at youth peacebuilders, this course will help in cultivating critical social-emotional competencies, develop systems-informed interventions to prevent violent extremism, and work towards building sustainable peace in their immediate communities.
Provides youth with tools to build emotional resilience for fostering peaceful and sustainable societies
Address the rise of extremist ideologies
The course addresses the need to build and sustain increasingly diverse and multi-cultural societies, which requires attention to institutions, communities and individual resilience and promotion of empathy, mindfulness, compassion, critical inquiry for a just and peaceful world.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) defines Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) as addressing the root causes (of violent extremism) with the aim of finding peaceful, inclusive, sustainable solutions.
SEL for youth waging peace course aims to address this with a special focus on the role of education in addressing this challenge of the rise of extremist ideologies that can lead to violent extremism using a development and peacebuilding approach firmly grounded in social emotional learning and human rights principle.
Course Modules
Module 1
Module 1
Module 2
Module 2
Module 3
Module 3
Module 4
Module 4
Courses Outcome
Towards SDG 4 and SDG 4.7
The course contributes to Sustainable Development Goals – SDG 4 (4.7) and SDG 16, as well as the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda (UN Security Council Resolution 2250, 2419, 2535).
