Online Course for Educators
Ethical Challenges during COVID-19 & implications for Children and Youth (+ live Webinar)
Session 3 – Ethical Challenges posed by COVID-19
During this session you will get an opportunity to:
- Explore the current worlds’ ethical challenges posed by COVID-19 at an individual, collective, educational levels.
- Reflect on what these challenges imply for children, for their development, spiritual well-being and their interconnectedness with people of different cultures and beliefs.
- Through an interactive discussion on Ethical Challenges during Covid-19 and its implications for Children and Youth, we will identify how we can support children and young people to be more resilient, hopeful and be agents of positive change in their own communities.
Session 3 : Live Webinar ( Recording)
Ethical Challenges during Covid-19 and its implications for Children
Presentation by Ms. Mary Kangethe
Presentation by Prof. Amr Abdalla
Presentation by Ms. Pavithra K.L.
Panelists
Dr. Scherto Gill
Senior Fellow, The Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace Research Institute
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Dr Scherto Gill is a Senior Fellow at the GHFP Research Institute, Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, Research Fellow at University of Wales, and Fellow of Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). Through academic research and grassroots projects, Scherto actively explores ways to implement ideas such as deep dialogue, ethics of caring, holistic well-being and spirituality in social transformation and peacebuilding. She writes in the fields of education, ethics, and governance. Her most recent books include: Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision of Human Well-Being (Routledge), Unders
Ms. Mary Kangethe
Director Education Programme, Kenya National Commission for UNESCO
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Mary Kangethe is the Director Education Programme, Kenya National Commission for UNESCO. She is a holder of Bachelors in Education degree and a Masters degree in education (Guidance and Counselling). She coordinates Education initiatives focusing on UNESCO priority themes including peace education, Early Childhood education, Monitoring and reporting on SDGs, Education for Sustainable development and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) among others. Ms. Kangethe has worked extensively in programmes related to capacity development of teachers and education officers in life skills education, value based education and psychosocial support.
Prof. Mohamed Abu-Nimer
Professor, School Of International Service, American University & Senior Adviser, KAICIID
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Prof. Abu-Nimer is a Senior Advisor to KAICIID and a professor at the School of International Service at American University. At the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program he served as Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute (1999-2013). He has conducted interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in conflict areas around the world, including Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Chad, Niger, Iraq (Kurdistan), Philippines (Mindanao), and Sri Lanka. He also founded Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, an organization that focuses on capacity building, civic education, and intrafaith and interfaith dialogue. In addition to his numerous articles and books, Dr. Abu-Nimer is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
Ms. Pavithra K.L.
Associate Director – Innovation Lab and Lead Facilitator – Teacher Development Programme, Dream a Dream
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Pavithra joined Dream a Dream’s life skills programme as a young adolescent girl. She was part of the mentoring programme and other life skills initiatives. At the age of 16, she joined as an intern and has grown within Dream a Dream since then. Pavithra is passionate about working with young people and believes in creating the support systems for young people that she didn’t have access to. She completed her graduation in commerce from Bangalore University while working with Dream a Dream. A multi-tasker, she has donned different roles across projects and has proven her ability to adapt herself to a challenging work environment. Currently, she works as Associate Director – Innovation Lab where she is responsible for ensuring and engaging with over 10000 young people along with a 50+ member team, developing various skill development modules for young people. Her mission is to work with young people and transform their life using life skills approach. Pavithra also works as a Lead Facilitator training teachers/community workers across Karnataka as part of the Teacher Development Programme.
Prof. Amr Abdalla
Emeritus Professor and the former Vice Rector at the University for Peace (UPEACE).
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As a professor, Abdalla teaches courses on conflict analysis and resolution, terrorism, and research methods in the area of peace building. In addition to this role, Abdalla is also a visiting professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Virginia. Prior to joining the University for Peace, Abdalla was a senior fellow with the Peace Operations Policy Program, School of Public Policy at George Mason University. His academic and professional careers are multi-disciplinary. He has been teaching graduate classes in conflict analysis and resolution, and has conducted training, research and evaluation of conflict resolution and peace building programs in several countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. He has been an active figure in promoting effective cross-cultural messages within the Islamic and Arabic-speaking communities in America through workshops, television, and radio presentations. He has also been actively involved in inter-faith dialogues in the United States. Abdalla pioneered the development of the first conflict resolution training manual for the Muslim communities in the United States titled “…Say Peace.” He also founded Project LIGHT (Learning Islamic Guidance for Human Tolerance), a community peer-based anti-discrimination project funded by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). He obtained a law degree in Egypt in 1977 where he practiced law as a prosecuting attorney from 1978 to 1987. He then emigrated to the U.S. where he obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
Moderator
Mr. Suchith Abeyewickreme
Ethics Education Programme Coordinator
Arigatou International Geneva
Forum
After the webinar we invite you to share your reflections on the forum below.
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Toolbox
Here you will find several resources that you can use with children aged 4 to 18 in intercultural and interfaith contexts, to support you creating safe, participatory and context-sensitive learning opportunities supported by our Ethics Education Transformative Pedagogy.
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