What We Do
Peaceful Planet Human Rights Education is in the business of Peace Education. We develop educational programs on human dignity and human rights. Both aspects are important for understanding and articulating your human dignity needs and the reason for knowing and respecting human rights. This is the foundation of a sense of community and of peacefulness. It is the basic factor in creating a more peaceful planet.
Peaceful Planet’s Objectives
Our Programs
This has heightened the need to learn and teach the 30 human rights of the Universal Declaration. When the declaration was agreed and signed in 1948, the national leaders intended it should be taught in all schools and institutions everywhere. That did not happen and Peaceful Planet Human Rights Education is fulfilling the original purpose of the Universal Declaration.
Elementary and middle schools
We offer a young children’s version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an illustrated booklet. Each of the illustrations reflects the theme of one of the 30 human rights. Accompanying this is a guide for teachers and parents.
Human rights are built on a foundation of respect for human dignity. The Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, brought death and destruction and tens of millions of deaths. One man, and the individuals and corporations that supported him for their own…
evil and malign purposes, took humanity back two and a half thousand years to before Cyrus the Great of Persia declared that all slaves were free and that all people were free to worship their God or Gods in the way their religion taught them.
As the leaders of the nations of the world began to pick up the pieces and construct the world anew, they planned and agreed a code of conduct that had its roots in the teachings of the world’s major religions and in the steps that had already been taken in politics and philosophy to make life more civilised and liveable. You will find out more in the Human Rights course.
The leaders of the countries formed the United Nations to oversee this undertaking and, after a long process of drafting and rewriting, they agreed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It stands as the moral backbone of Human Rights among the people of this planet. In recent years, human rights, like human dignity, have been increasingly ignored.
This has heightened the need to learn and teach the 30 human rights of the Universal Declaration. When the declaration was agreed and signed in 1948, the national leaders intended it should be taught in all schools and institutions everywhere. That did not happen and Peaceful Planet Human Rights Education is fulfilling the original purpose of the Universal Declaration.
This originates from the work of Harvard conflict resolution professional, Dr Donna Hicks. After ten years working in her chosen profession, she came to the conclusion that all conflicts arise from violations of human dignity.
Dr Hicks looked for academic and professional work in this field and found that no one had researched it or written professionally about it. She developed a new model for helping people to understand their human dignity needs and how not to violate the human dignity needs of other people. Her Book, Dignity Its Essential Role in Conflict resolution is now widely used at the highest levels of corporations for leadership training and continuing professional development as well as to help resolve conflicts in troubled areas of the planet.
Creating a gentler world by bringing people closer together, in which so many have invested their time and their hope over recent years, has taken a battering since ……
the appearance of COVID-19. Social distancing is the very opposite and has made people afraid to reach out to other humans. We have all experienced the reluctance to make friendly eye contact, the looking down or looking away that has lingered on after the end of lockdown.
The darker side to the change in interpersonal communication has been a general weakening of the bonds that held people together and to an increase in gender based violence and in hate crimes and violence towards minority groups. This is widespread internationally and improvements in women’s empowerment and tolerance in general have, in many communities, gone into reverse.
Peaceful Planet’s Human Dignity course and workshops start from the premise of Reclaim, Regain, Retain your Humanity, and seek to set in motion a positive reset of human social evolution. They are used to improve human communication and interaction at all levels from the board room to the city streets. Our motto is Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds. Go to the Human Dignity course
Arts and Sciences
Article 27 Part 1 of the Universal Declaration protects our rights to participate in the cultural heritage of humanity. The education we receive at school and university omits some key information that vested interests don’t want us to know.
Peaceful Planet’s Arts and Sciences page will provide an easily understandable, self-study program in English, Maths and Science up to university matriculation level and offers you
These are available in English only at the moment.