The GHFP has been partner for The Ethics Education Fellowship programme (EEF).
EEF seeks to strengthen the sustainable delivery of ethics education programs for children in formal education settings to advance global citizenship and build more peaceful and inclusive societies. Teachers who took part in our program report stronger competencies and an improved ability to build inclusive, respectful, and engaging classrooms, leading to better learning outcomes and students’ engagement.
On Tuesday, 11 November 2025, we invite policymakers, teacher educators, and partners to join us in an international webinar: We Are Transforming Education: National Examples to Promote and Integrate Ethics Education – Successes, Challenges and Opportunities.
📅 Tuesday, 11 November 2025 🕚 11:00 – 13:00 UTC 📍 Via Zoom 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ePGAHykb
The GHFP is delighted to be joining UNESCO 2024 Global Forum Against Racism and Discrimination to be held in Barcelona on 10th-11th December. The Forum will bring together technical and policy experts to advance the international movement for structural justice and social equality.
In particular, the GHFP has been planning and designing, with the Global Humanity for Peace Institute, and our community partners, an experiential workshop on intergenerational dialogue & inquiry (IDI). IDI aims to examine and address the legacies of dehumanisation, including slavery, colonialism, racism and discrimination. IDI has been a main process of the Collective Healing Circles (CHCs) currently being piloted in communities in 14 countries around the Atlantic shores.
The IDI workshop will form a part of the UNESCO’s flagship Master Class Against Racism and Discrimination programme on 10th Dec. during the UNESCO Global Forum.
Join us at Geneva Peace Week 2024 A Must-Attend Workshop for Educators and Change-Makers!
In an increasingly globalised world, where schools and communities are facing rising tensions, discrimination and xenophobia, it is essential that education empowers children with peace-building awareness and skills and nurtures ethical values.
Join us during Geneva Peace Week 2024 for a dynamic, interactive workshop “Addressing discrimination and xenophobia in schools through ethics education,” designed for all those passionate about transforming education into a positive force for peace. The workshop particularly engages teachers, policy makers, as well as education practitioners, and students.
Whether you attend in person in Geneva or online from anywhere in the world, this session is an unmissable opportunity to explore how transformative pedagogy can help foster peaceful and inclusive societies through ethics education and dialogic classrooms.
Why Attend?
Explore ethics education: Discover how ethics education and transformative pedagogy help create safe learning environments, build trust, and facilitate mutual understanding across diverse backgrounds.
Gain practical skills: Learn how to transform your school into a peace champion through interactive whole-school approaches, inclusive inclusive learning environments, dialogic classrooms, children-led curriculum, teachers’ professional development and community engagement.
Hands-on learning: Experience peer-to-peer learning with colleagues from all around the world, and engage on a narrative analysis about structural and cultural violence in schools.
Event Details:🗓️ 15 October 2024⌛ 15:00 – 16:30 CET📍 Participate on-site in Geneva or online🌐 Interpretation services available through Wordly AI
Speakers
Prof Scherto Gill, Director, Global Humanity for Peace Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David / Senior Fellow, Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace
Mary Kangethe, Director, Education Programs, Kenya National Commission for UNESCO
Itje Chodidjah, Chairperson, Indonesia National Commission for UNESCO
Maria Lucia Uribe, Executive Director, Arigatou International Geneva
G20 Interfaith Forum (IF20) has convened diverse interfaith actors inspired by the G20 agendas since 2014. Through dialogue, and analytic work, IF20 aims to enrich the G20 process by bringing the wisdom, experience, and voice of diverse faith communities alongside other global constituencies. IF20 Education Working Group (Edu WG), chaired by Prof Scherto Gill, has been actively contributing to policy recommendations relevant to the annual G20 themes.
For 2024, the IF20 Edu WG hosts an international symposium on The Centrality of Harmony in Education in the Global Retreat Centre, Oxford on 1-3 July. It focuses on comprehensive analysis in terms of how Harmony in Education may enhance interfaith/intercultural collaboration, positive peace, inclusive citizenship, climate awareness, and co-flourishing with Nature.
Harmony, in this context, is a philosophy advanced by His Majesty King Charles in his 2010 seminal book entitled: Harmony: A New Way of Looking at our World. The notion of harmony is extremely potent as it allows us to recognise that separation from each other and exploitation of Nature have resulted in present social and ecological catastrophe impacting all. Harmony in Education is thus an imperative for the present and future generations to learn to embrace our interconnection and interdependence and return us to a just world and sustainable planet.
The Symposium gathers IF20 Education Working Group partners, such as ADYAN Foundation, Guerrand-Hermès Foundation, Scholas Occurentes, Salzberg Global Seminar, and other international educational organisations, including King’s Foundation, Harmony Institute, the Harmony Project, Education Policy & Administration, Government of NCT of Delhi, India, and WES Networks Brazil, to explore how Harmony in Education can contribute to 2024 G20’s theme of Just World Sustainable Planet.
During the Symposium, each participant/contributor will make a presentation on their relevant work under the G20 2024’s theme. Then the participants will dialogue and discuss policy ideas around integrating Harmony Education in public schooling.
Questions to be considered during the Symposium:
What are our understandings of harmony in the context of global challenges? How might we integrate harmony in our ways of being?
In what ways does the notion of harmony contribute to the G20 2024 theme – Just Society Sustainable Planet?
How might education help advance harmony?
What policy ideas should we propose to G20 leaders?
What case studies might demonstrate the imperative of harmony in education?
Confirmed Contributors:
Sister Jayanti
Additional Administrative Head, The Brahma Kumaris
Maureen Goodman
UK Director, World Spiritual University
Nick Campion
Director, The Harmony Institute, UWTSD
Isodora Canela
Founder/Director, WEBS Association, Brazil
Richard Dunne
Director, The Harmony Project, UK
Jacqueline Farrell
Director of Education, King’s Foundation, UK
Scherto Gill
Director, Global Humanity for Peace Institute, UK
Medwin Hughes
Former Vice Chancellor, UWTSD Chair, Wales Church, Wales
Mayssam Imad
Director of Education, Adyan Foundation, Lebanon
Maria Paz Jurado
International Director, Pontifical Foundation Scholas Occurrentes, Italy
Robin Keshaw
Project Lead, Education Policy & Administration, Government of NCT of Delhi, India
Xiaoan Li
Senior Programme Officer, Fetzer Institute, USA
Corinna Nawatzky
Center for Education Transformation, Salzberg Global Seminar, Austria
Shailendra Sharma
Former Advisor, Ministry of Education, Delhi, India
Alice Sommerville
Education & Research Coordinator, Guerrand-Hermes Foundation, UK
Trans-generational traumas resulting from mass brutality can persist through familial, communal, and societal lines. These traumas stem from major historical dehumanising acts, such as the transatlantic trade of enslaved peoples, and colonialisation. They are then compounded by continued structural oppression that affects successive generations. Recognition, Restoration, Reconciliation and Regeneration are four key processes in our collective journeys towards healing traumas, building just society, and enhancing well-being for the future.
The UNESCO Intergenerational Dialogue & Inquiry (IDI) is a community-based programme through which people come together to explore multi-dimensional harms of historical atrocities, and acknowledge the long-lasting effects of their legacies on the entire community. It seeks to reclaim the cultural resources for resilience and healing, deepen solidarity across the divides, and propose ways to address the structural dimensions of dehumanisation through systemic transformation.
This 5th webinar gathers voices from communities who have participated in the IDI Pilot, with an Introduction from Linda Tinio-Le Douarin, who is the Deputy Chief, UNESCO Section for Inclusion, Rights and Intercultural Dialogue, Social and Human Sciences Sector.
The speakers are elders and young participants of the IDI programme pilot from four continents. They will reflect on their experiences of the IDI process and share key insights emergent, with a focus on approaches to nurturing collective healing, justice and well-being.
Following brief presentations, the speakers will engage in dialogue with one another to discuss common themes of healing, and respond to questions from the audience.
Presenters
Dr Dianne Regisford is a dynamic Social Sculpture practitioner, invested in regenerative ARTivism for belonging, racial equity and cultural transformation through a social justice lens. She is the founder, visionary and creator of Evoking Belonging – a body of work expressed as Design Strategy , Social Sculpture research practice, poetry and thought leadership. Working with her unique Evoking Belonging Ubuntu Practices, Dianne designs and stewards inclusive, participatory approaches to belonging through equitable enquiry into power and privilege, racial justice and cultural transformation. This is an innovative approach to sociocultural co-imagining for a regenerative, equitable, humane and just society. Her current writing and research focus on exploring Indigenous African Diaspora Knowledge Systems, with specific reference to ancestral intergenerational healing and cultural restoration for African heritage communities in the Diaspora. More about Dianne HERE.
Dr Gloria Patricia Moreno is traditional indigenous doctor/healer of the Cañamón Lomaprieta, Colombia. She is the principal advisor and counsellor of wise men and women in the Caldas Province.
As a traditional healer, Gloria introduces the spiritual aspect to healing, justice and well-being. She sees the spiritual as the balance between the different forces, such as between the positive and the negative, and between demanding respect for human rights, and restoring human values within the community. For Gloria, healing is achieved through harmonisation and every concrete material activity has its balance through rituals and spiritual contents.
Casey Overton (she/they) is a radical nonprofit strategist, writer, and spiritual activist who is insistent on cultivating space for collective healing. They are the editor of “Liturgy that Matters”, an enfleshed publication, and the coordinator for Black faith programs in an affirming spiritual community. Her communications and faith-based nonprofit background has allowed the cultural metaphysics of liberation to become an ongoing priority in her work. As a multi-spiritual worker, they love being immersed in cooperative interfaith dialogue while creating restorative environments for marginalized populations within or beyond faith institutions. Her work as a faith nonprofit strategist draws on her expertise in systems analysis for co-creating spiritually sustainable cultures. She is a graduate of Hampton University and Duke Divinity School. She resides in the Powhatan lands now called Richmond, VA., USA.
Ojeriakhi Oluwaseyi (Seyi), born and raised of mixed ethnicity of Edo and Yoruba in the suburbs of Lagos, Nigeria, is a lawyer, writer, artist and changemaker. Seyi is a student of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lagos. He is a member of the Secretariat Committee, and recently was awarded first prize in the 2023 Writing Bout of the Law Students Society. He is a facilitator for Initiatives of Change, Nigeria, a global NGO with an interest in driving the necessary ethical transformation in the society. Seyi recently co-facilitated an Ethical Leadership Retreat hosted in Lagos, which supported and nurtured over 40 students from Lagos University through dialogic learning.
Dr Ali Moussa Iyeis a writer and researcher. He holds a PhD in political Science from the Institute of Political Science (Grenoble, France). He was a journalist, Editor-in-chief of a weekly newspaper and Director of Press and Audio-visual in his country (Djibouti) before joining UNESCO. Within UNESCO, through various posts, he actively contributed to the elaboration of the UNESCO Strategy against Racism and Discrimination and the creation of the International Coalition of Cities against Racism. From 2004 and 2019, Dr Moussa Iye was the Head of the History and Memory for Dialogue Department and directed two important UNESCO Programmes: the Routes of Dialogue (Slave Route Project and Silk Roads Project) and the General and Regional Histories (History of Humanity, General History of Africa, General History of Latin America; General History of the Caribbean, History of Civilisations of Central Asia; Different Aspects of Islamic Culture). He has initiated and coordinated the pedagogical use of the General History of Africa and the drafting of the last three volumes of this prestigious collection to update it and address the new challenges faced by Africa and its diasporas.
Dr Moussa Iye is currently pursuing research in the field of political anthropology and is working in particular on the revalorisation of African endogenous knowledge. He is the founder and Chair of the Think-Tank “AFROSPECTIVES, a Global Africa initiative” to re-imagine Africa’s presence and contribution to the World. Among his publications are “The Verdict of the Tree: An Essay of an African Endogenous Democracy” (2014) and “Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective” (2019).
Esther A. Armah is an author, playwright, international public speaker, and former journalist. She is CEO of The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), a global institute creating racial healing resources and tools working across Accra, New York, and London. She is author of “EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: a roadmap for racial healing“, a #1 New Release on Amazon in the category General Sociology of Race Relations for six straight weeks. Emotional Justice is a racial healing roadmap Esther created over a 15-year period through assignment, research and community engagement in Accra, Philadelphia, South Africa and New York. As a journalist she has worked in London, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
Esther was the Spring 2022 Distinguished Activist in Residence at New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture. Her Emotional Justice essays are featured in the New York Times best-selling book “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America“; the award-winning Love with Accountability, Charleston Syllabus, and Women & Migrations (II). She has written five Emotional Justice plays that have been produced and performed in New York, Chicago and Ghana. For her Emotional Justice work, she won the ‘Community Healer Award’ at the 2016 Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit in Washington DC. Esther was named ‘Most Valuable NY Radio Host’ in The Nation’s Progressive Honors List for her work on Wake-Up Call on Pacifica’s, WBAI.
What are the pandemic’s major impact on religious and faith communities? How might religious leaders and their followers help embrace the challenges brought by the pandemic?
How might we reduce social tension stemming from religious factors at this unique time? How can we do to foster solidarity within and between different religious and faith communities and improve mental and physical well-being during the pandemic?
What religious, faith and spiritual practices could become part of the new normal in a post-COVID-19 world? What could be the part of religion, faith and spirituality in future of our society?
The event featured the following speakers:
Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University / Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue
Victor Kazanjian, Executive Director, United Religions Initiative
Patrice Brodeur, Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, University of Montreal & Senior Adviser, KAICIID
The Webinar was facilitated by Scherto Gill, Senior Research Fellow and Executive Secretary, GHFP Research Institute.
