My Peacebuilder Foundations
An interactive, standards-aligned curriculum that equips young people with skills to build peace, solve conflicts, and lead positive change.
Peace Education for High School Classrooms
FREE to Educators in the US!
Our Mission: Make learning to be a peacebuilder a rite of passage for everyone.
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?
Listen to what our alumni have to say . . .
Teacher Toolkit
In addition to eight online modules, My Peacebuilder Foundations includes classroom support with lesson plans, slides, hands-on activities, reflection journals, and peace project ideas – all designed to make it easy for you to reinforce and extend the online learning experience in meaningful, interactive ways.
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8 Online Modules
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8 In-Class Lesson Plans
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8 Sets of Slides
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16 Hands-On Activities
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Reflection Journal
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Assessments
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Certificates of Completion
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Project Ideas
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Course at a Glance
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.
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Collaborators and Supporters
Youth & Peace in Action Powered by NewGen Peacebuilders
310 Arlington Avenue, Suite 303
Charlotte, NC 28203
info@newgenpeace.org
980.999.0573
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.
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
Keith Finley
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
Monet Goode
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
Channing Lee
Spriha Manjigani, NewGen Peacebuilders alumna