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The Peace Education for Schools Platform advances practical peace learning within educational environments by equipping students, teachers, schools, and learning communities with the knowledge, values, competencies, and behavioural tools required for peaceful coexistence, civic responsibility, and social transformation.
The platform recognises schools not merely as academic spaces, but as foundational environments for shaping values, leadership culture, emotional intelligence, conflict management skills, and responsible citizenship among future generations.
By strengthening peace education within schools, PEPNET seeks to contribute to safer learning environments, healthier student relationships, stronger civic consciousness, and long-term violence prevention.
Peace Education for Secondary Schools (PESS) is PEPNET’s flagship school-based peace education initiative designed to promote practical peace learning, civic responsibility, emotional intelligence, ethical leadership, conflict prevention, and behavioural transformation among secondary school students.
PESS emerged in response to growing concerns around bullying, violence, intolerance, misinformation, peer pressure, harmful social behaviour, identity-based division, and weak civic culture among young people. The initiative approaches peace education not simply as academic theory, but as a practical life skill and everyday behavioural culture.
Since 2024, PESS has facilitated school sensitisation programmes, peace learning engagements, educator support initiatives, and student-centred conversations across schools and educational spaces in Abuja and beyond.
The platform recognises schools not merely as academic spaces, but as foundational environments for shaping values, leadership culture, emotional intelligence, conflict management skills, and responsible citizenship among future generations.
By strengthening peace education within schools, PEPNET seeks to contribute to safer learning environments, healthier student relationships, stronger civic consciousness, and long-term violence prevention.
PESS activities have included:
One of the platform’s most significant contributions has been the development of the:
These practical learning resources were developed to support educators, facilitators, institutions, and schools with locally relevant peace education content and implementation tools.
The PESS Manual is currently undergoing assessment processes with the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) for possible integration into Nigerian educational systems, with broader long-term adaptation potential across African learning environments.
The platform’s learning resources and training materials have supported teacher and facilitator engagements in multiple contexts including:
PESS continues to contribute toward:
The initiative also reflects PEPNET’s broader commitment to building sustainable peace education systems capable of shaping future generations across Nigeria and Africa.
Peace Education for Higher Institutions (PEHIP) is a youth-focused leadership, dialogue, and civic engagement platform advancing peace education, ethical leadership, campus peacebuilding, democratic participation, and responsible citizenship among students in tertiary institutions.
PEHIP recognises universities and higher institutions as strategic environments for shaping future professionals, policymakers, educators, researchers, governance actors, and social leaders. The platform therefore seeks to strengthen constructive student engagement, civic consciousness, conflict-sensitive participation, and youth leadership development within higher learning spaces.
PEHIP focuses on:
Since 2024, PEHIP has facilitated virtual and institutional learning engagements involving lecturers, students, facilitators, and youth leaders from institutions including:
The initiative has hosted leadership sessions, peacebuilding conversations, youth dialogue forums, and civic engagement activities designed to strengthen peace learning and responsible participation among young people.
PEHIP continues to build pathways for:
The platform also holds strong long-term potential for building interconnected campus peace networks and youth civic resilience platforms across Africa.
Back to School for Peace is an educational support initiative under PEPNET’s Peace Education for Schools Programme. The project was launched in 2024 to support vulnerable children and young people who are unable to access or continue education due to financial hardship and other barriers.
The initiative is built on the belief that education is one of the most powerful tools for promoting peace, inclusion, opportunity, and sustainable development.
Since its launch in 2024:
To support at least 50 children and young people every year to access and remain in school.
