Education for Peace and Reconciliation
Educational Materials (Curriculum/Methodologies)

"Batissons la Paix"/ "Gira Amahoro"
(Let's Build Peace)

The project "Batissons la Paix"/ "Gira Amahoro" (Let's Build Peace), developed by UNICEF in cooperation with the Ministry of Basic Education and Adult Literacy in Burundi, aims to help children and youth learn the skills they need to resolve their conflicts peacefully, to cope with the stress of violent ethnic conflicts, and to prepare for a less violent future by providing them psycho-social support and educational skills.

• "Batissons la Paix" Project Description
• Experience Learned
• "Batissons la Paix" Educational Materials
• "PeaceKit "
  This kit contains 35 different activities including games, working/drawing materials, etc. It teaches the concept of peace to children in all schools and other learning centers who are participating in the project. The activities can be integrated into the curriculum in both French and Kirundi as art and sport classes. The most important message in this kit is to learn to build and live with peace.
• A teacher guide/activity book for the "Batissons la Paix" programme(P62)
  This guide gives some ideas of activities to be taught by teachers or trainers. The main objective of education for peace is to let children and adults discover and understand the meaning of solidarity, confidence, equality and justice in order to develop capacities to respect one another.
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child in Kirundi
  This is a handbook of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Kirundi.
  
  
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child in French
  This is a handbook of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in French.