UNESCO stated it has set a brand new commonplace instrument on schooling for lasting peace, the place schooling presents a number of alternatives to deal with problems with hate speech.
The United Nations has urged the Nigerian authorities to put schooling on the centre of all peacebuilding efforts in direction of constructing an everlasting tradition of peace.
This was contained in a joint press launch issued on Wednesday by the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), United Nations Worldwide Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Data Centre (UNIC).
The assertion highlighted the pressing want for the Nigerian authorities to prioritise schooling as a software for fostering human dignity, tolerance, and peace.
The UNESCO Consultant in Nigeria, Abdourahamane Diallo, stated if schooling is positioned on the core of our dedication to peace, “it could actually empower learners with the data, expertise, and attitudes essential to turn into brokers of peace of their speedy communities.”
“Whereas encouraging the federal government to prioritise schooling on the high of its political agenda, a powerful name is being made to rally influencers and wider civil society to push ahead the motion to convey schooling into the centre of peacebuilding in any respect ranges.”
Within the assertion, Mr Diallo disclosed that “UNESCO has set a brand new commonplace instrument on schooling for lasting peace, the place schooling presents a number of alternatives to deal with the foundation causes of hate speech and sensitise learners of all ages of its varieties and penalties on-line and offline.”
UNICEF speaks
Additionally, UNICEF Nigeria Nation Consultant, Cristian Munduate, recommended Nigeria’s dedication to the Secure Faculties Declaration and the event of Minimal Requirements for Secure Faculties and the necessity for continued progress in guaranteeing protected college environments.
She stated: “On this vital day, we’re reminded of the collective accountability we share in safeguarding the tutorial atmosphere for each little one. Schooling is a key driver of gender equality, financial progress, and social growth, sadly it stays inaccessible to many Nigerian kids. Their instructional journey is commonly disrupted by assaults on communities and faculties, together with the kidnapping of scholars.”
“These challenges are notably acute for adolescent ladies, probably stalling the progress made in ladies’ schooling in Nigeria,” she added.
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In her message, UNESCO Director Common, Audrey Azoulay, emphasised the position of schooling in fostering peace.
“As a result of if hatred begins with phrases, peace begins with schooling, what we study adjustments how we view the world and influences how we deal with others. Schooling should subsequently be on the coronary heart of our efforts to attain and preserve world peace.”
Ms Azoulay stated this yr’s Worldwide Day of Schooling focuses on the vital position of instructing and studying in selling lasting peace and the required diversifications for schooling to deal with present world challenges.
“The UNESCO Suggestion on Schooling for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Improvement adopted by our 194 Member States in November 2023, is a serious milestone on this regard. This world standard-setting instrument, the one one in every of its variety, is a roadmap for re-thinking and re-designing schooling programs to arrange learners to collectively form extra simply, sustainable, wholesome and peaceable futures for all. UNESCO appears to be like ahead to supporting schooling reforms primarily based on this advice the world over.”
About Worldwide Day of Schooling
The United Nations Common Meeting on 3 December 2018 proclaimed 24 January because the Worldwide Day of Schooling, in celebration of the position of schooling in peace and growth.
