An interactive, standards-aligned curriculum unit that equips young people with skills to build peace, solve conflicts, and lead positive change.

Peace Education for High School Classrooms

My Peacebuilder Foundations

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My Peacebuilder Foundations is a standards-aligned, 8-module, online and in-classroom curriculum unit that high school teachers easily drop into English, Social Studies, and Leadership courses.

  • Healing

    This module explores humanity's right to rights. It introduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as one guiding document for justice and peace. Students learn about how people make effective appeals for human rights, civil rights, and civil liberties.

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  • Heart

    The theme of this module the importance of consciously keeping the "heart" at the center of peacebuilding. In this part of the module, you will be introduced to the concept of VUCA, two types of hearts, four types of love, and the ultimate challenge — loving an enemy.

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  • Head

    This module emphasizes how important it is to match the heart of peacebuilding with logic and planning – the head. The module's three parts emphasize that Peace is a Verb: Pause. Think. Build. Students reflect on what it means to be an upstander for peace while being careful not to act too quickly.

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Online content is supplemented with lesson plans, slides, hands-on activities, reflection journals, and peace project ideas available to teachers for use in the classroom.

Teacher Toolkit

  • 8 Online Modules

  • 8 In-Class Lesson Plans

  • 8 Sets of Slides

  • 16 Hands-On Activities

  • Reflection Journal

  • Assessments

  • Certificates of Completion

  • Project Ideas

  • Course at a Glance

Jessica Young, Charlotte, NC

“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”

What Students Experience with My Peacebuilder Foundations

  • Learn through interactive, online courses delivered in engaging modules

  • Gain understanding of the root causes of conflict and the building blocks of peace

  • Develop the ability to imagine innovative solutions to real-world challenges

  • Participate in teacher-supported classroom sessions that include guided discussions, reflections, and small group activities

  • Complete the course equipped with practical peacebuilding skills

Why Teach Young People About Peace?

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Results and Impact

Over 20,000 students, teachers, and community supporters have become certified peacebuilders. A total of 70,000 hours of peace education and mentoring have been delivered. And students have initiated 500 peace projects.

Our Mission: Make learning to be a peacebuilder a rite of passage for everyone.

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Collaborators and Supporters

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EXTRAS OR REFERENCES AFTER THIS

Curriculum units from My Peacebuilder Foundations make it easy for High School teachers to provide standards-aligned content that equips young people to become peacebuilders.

Curriculum Units from YPA

Standards-aligned curriculum consists of interactive, online courses delivered in sequential modules for high school students. Course completion achieves understanding of fundamental drivers of conflict and peace, the ability to imagine innovative approaches to change, and skills to frame an issue problem statement and create a peace project idea. Students are guided through independent, interactive online content supported by teachers during in-class discussions, reflections, and small group interactive activities.

My Peacebuilder Foundations

The My Peacebuilder Foundations Curriculum Unit includes interactive, online content delivered in sequential modules for high school students. Online content is supplemented with lesson plans, PPT slides, hands-on activities, reflection journals, and peace project ideas available to teachers for use in the classroom.

Through the course, students learn to use established frameworks to consider how power, conflict, violence and peace intersect.