Friedrich W. Affolter, EdD, education expert for Risk-Informed Programming at UNICEF New York Program Division, and Secretary to the ECPC, joins host, Nancy Shemrah Fallon of the ECPC Global Communications Team. Dr. Affolter discusses his pioneering work as manager of UNICEFs Peace Building Education and Advocacy Program (PBEA), also called ‘Learning for Peace’, which designed education programs that contributed to the mitigation of drivers of conflict in 14 fragile and post-conflict countries.

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Dr. Affolter talks about the many informative research products, produced by the PBEA, and how they can be best used by others to further this work. These 75 downloadable research products, made available on this website, include: data research and case studies, manuals and guidance, notes, summaries, reports and outcome evaluations, advocacy and issue briefs, gender and peacebuilding reports, a video series and toolkits for practical use and much more—all illustrating the vital links between education, social cohesion and peacebuilding. 

[Read “Affolter F.W., Azaryeva Valente A. (2020) Learning for Peace: Lessons Learned from UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Context Programme. In: Balvin N., Christie D. (eds) Children and Peace. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, Cham]