To commemorate the 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on 20 November 2019, Arigatou International launched a new online space developed in close collaboration with the four members of the GNRC Youth Committee 2019. The purpose of this platform is to share Arigatou International’s approach to work with children, to […]

With a panel discussion gathering more than 120 participants, the Multi-religious Study on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) “Faith and Children Rights” was launched at the United Nations in Geneva, on 19 November 2019, as part of the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the CRC. The Multi-Religious Study was developed

In November, Arigatou International participated in the Geneva Peace Week by hosting a panel discussion “Enhancing Peacebuilding Initiatives with the Integration of Early Childhood Development Programs” that took place on 4 November 2019. Panelists discussed the importance of early childhood for peacebuilding, the costs associated with the lack of investment and quality in early childhood

Nurturing ethical values for the prevention of violence against children was the motto adopted for the first Facilitators Training Workshop on the Learning to Live Together Programme, which was recently held in Lima, Peru. From 31 October to 3 November 2019, 25 participants had the opportunity to get familiarized with the ethics education approach of

UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA), together with Arigatou International and the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University conducted a training for 21 participants from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia, including university lecturers, representatives from the Ministry of Higher Education, representatives from UNESCO Dakar and One

As part of the two-year-long process of adapting the Learning to Live Together manual to the ages of 7 to 11, a second annual meeting of the expert group took place in Bangkok, Thailand on 18 and 19 October 2019. The meeting was an opportunity for experts to discuss the findings of the first seven

A four-day Facilitator Training Workshop on the use of the Learning to Live Together Programme was organized in Guatemala from 15 to 18 October 2019.

Arigatou International participated in the 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace that took place from 20 to 23 August in Lindau, Germany. Under the theme “Caring for our Common Future ̶ Advancing Shared Well-being,” the Assembly brought together 900 senior religious leaders, youth and women of faith from 125 countries, as well as 100

Arigatou International had an enriching meeting to renew collaborations with the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID), on 22 August 2019 at the Vatican.

The Learning to Live Together Programme was introduced for the first time in Mexico with a four-day Facilitator Training Workshop that took place from12 to15 August 2019.

After running workshops in seven countries around the world, the pilots for the adaptation of the Learning to Live Together Programme to Middle Childhood came to an end after completing the three last pilots in Tanzania, in July, and in India and Ecuador in August 2019, and reaching a total of 250 children from several

The Coimbatore Peace Festival, organized by Shanti Ashram in India, was the scenario for the premiere of the animated short film about one of the winners of the Learning to Live Together Global Awards. The festival was held in August 2019 and it was a unique opportunity for hundreds of people to get to know