Education Initiatives
Peace One Day launched its first educational resource, the Peace One Day Citizenship Resource Pack in May 2006. Since then, the team has gone on to create an education resource that is available free online to those who have registered with the website. The resource is meant to be used in schools to teach children in grades 6-12 about conflict resolution, global citizenship, human rights, and the link between sustainability and peace; there are currently 5,000 users and by 2010 the organization hopes to have 20,000 educators utilizing the resource. In 2010, with the help of Skype, Peace One Day launched the resource in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish), all also available free online. The new online resource contains an extra lesson, "Intercultural Cooperation", that allows students to connect with students from other countries through Skype.
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