Education 4 peace

Education 4 Peace is a non-profit foundation registered in Switzerland in 2002. Our main office, managed by a small team, is in Rolle, Switzerland, halfway between Geneva and Lausanne.

Our vision

Education 4 Peace sees a world where children leaving school have gained knowledge, learned how to learn and how to know themselves. Knowing themselves comes through developing the skills needed to manage their emotions and their relations with others. They learn to listen, to be mediators and thus to manage their frustrations, disagreements and arguments.

Peace and non-violence will become top priorities in education. Knowledge and know-how will become enriched by teaching children to also know themselves.

Our mission

Education 4 Peace supports and oversees schools’ and sports groups’ projects that build on our vision.

We undertake actions that increase awareness and influence educational and political leaders.

Our background

Education 4 Peace is active since 2002 in the field of Emotional Health. Our origins come from free emotional support hotlines, internationally effective for more than 50 years and operating with highly trained volunteers.

We aim to serve as a forum to showcase different emotional health schools programmes around the world. To help people in education and government see that diverse and rich programmes exist and are rapidly growing. To encourage and work with them to implement their own programmes.

Today

Education 4 Peace works closely with the International Federation of Telephone Emergency Services, with whom we co-initiated the first International Congress on Emotional Health in 2007, supported by the WHO (World Health Organization). We will contribute again to the next IFOTES Congress on the theme of “Exploring Alternatives to Violence” in Vienna 2010, with a plenary session on emotional health in schools.

We are working with UEFA, the European football association, and have developed a programme called “Master Your Emotions” to help reduce violence in sports and society.

Strategic partners