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OrganizationEFP-BalkansOverview - Constitution - History - Program
reach - Partners - Impact
Program Reach
The Education for Peace (EFP) Program works closely with entire school communities, providing professional development training for educators and staff in the elements and skills of peace education, including Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution and peace-based curriculum development, along with interactive, student-centered and process-oriented teaching methodologies. As such, EFP contributes to a process in which students gain, through all stages of their development, insights about themselves and the world. This enables them to contribute in unique and positive ways to the creation of a vibrant culture of peace.
In its pilot phase, the EFP Project included six schools of Bosnia and Herzegovina representing the three main ethnic communities of that country. Since September 2003, the Education for Peace Program has worked with 100 secondary schools in 62 different locations throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. These schools have taken part in the EFP-World Program, which is a comprehensive, multi-media version of the Education for Peace Integrative Curriculum for teachers of all grades as well as students of upper primary and secondary schools.
The first phase of this long-term project has involved the participation of more than 80,000 students, 5,000 teachers and school staff and by extension, the families and community-at-large. Education for Peace is an all-inclusive program and is implemented in Croat, Serb and Bosniak schools across the country.
To date, 112 schools are involved in integrating the principles of peace into every classroom, every day. The ultimate, long-term goal of Education for Peace-Balkans is to implement the EFP Program in all 2,200 primary and secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With the process of integration of the EFP Integrative Curriculum into the formal educational policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this goal is one step closer to being achieved. This process has included the establishment of an EFP Policy-Integration Advisory Commission in May 2005 with appointed representatives from the country’s 13 Ministries of Education and 8 Pedagogical Institutes, and the training of all 150 staff of the country’s eight Pedagogical Institutes who are responsible for the in-service training and evaluation of BiH’s 110,000 teachers in the principles and practices of Education for Peace. Through the work of the Commission and the advocacy efforts of the Pedagogical Institutes, relevant BiH Ministries and schools throughout the country, EFP-International and EFP-Balkans are making concrete progress towards the formal integration of the Education for Peace Program within BiH’s educational policy and curricular standards, which will extend to the 2200 primary and secondary schools in the country.
