Conference Announcement: Human Rights Go Local

The International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights at the Local and Regional Levels under the auspices of UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the University of Graz, Austria are hosting an academy and a conference in February, 2022.
The conference is called Human Rights Go Local “From Intentions to Commitments: Towards the Effective and Sustainable Implementation of Human Rights” and it will be held fully digitally.
The deadline for applications is October 29th, 2021. You can get more information here.

Conference on Peace, Safety, and Non-violence

The conference “Frieden ist möglich – aber sicher!” deals with the question of how can create a nonviolent society and state.

In the face of many of the current crises, such as democracy, refugees, climate, economy, and pandemics, the conference asks questions about the challenges connected to the relationship of peace and safety: How much peace and security do we need and how can we achieve those goals?

The program includes an opening event with a short film, talks and discussions, workshops and more.

Further information can be found here.

UNESCO COVID-19 Education Response

With the COVID pandemic universities had to close and switch teaching and education to digital spaces. This had quite the impact on higher education and students alike and posed a lot of challenges. In order to assess the impact that the pandemic had on higher education, UNESCO conducted a survey and presents its finding in a very insight report.

You can look at the report here.

DCMÈT Chair Symposium Videos

Hans Karl Peterlini has just been invited to the Network Committee of the DCMÈT Chair and he also recently participated in their symposium on “Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education: New Perspectives to Understand, Engage and Act Together”.

If you are interested in taking a look at what the symposium had to offer, you can look at their website or check out their YouTube channel, where all sessions have been uploaded for you to look at.

Hans Karl Peterlini’s talk about “Transformative Learning” can be found here, and if you’d like to learn more about him personally and professionally, there is another short video on him.