NB: For a clear and well designed overview of the Human Rights Conventions, we recommend the website of the People's Movement for Human Rights Learning, www.pdhre.org. You will find the list of conventions here.
ORGANISATIONS
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- Tolerance programme > see also UNESCO's Declaration of Principles on Tolerance
- Programs for interreligious and intercultural dialogue
- International peace education, incl. human rights education > see programs on education
- Associated Schools Project > see project description
UNHCHR (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- Human Rights Education (HRE) decade > see program description
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
- Peace education > see program description
OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe):
- Tolerance education (see program description)
- Website guide for Tolerance Education developed for OSCE by Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland
ISESCO (Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- Islamic education for peace and tolerance
WCC (World Council of Churches)
- Interfaith Education Project, in cooperation with Hartford Seminary, USA
- Education and ecumenical formation
WCRP (World Conference on Religion and Peace)
- Inter-religious dialogue end peace education (see program description)
IARF (International Association for Religious Freedom)
- Studies of religious education around the world
IRLA (International Religious Liberty Association)
- Tolerance education and freedom or religion or belief
AIDLR (Association Internationale pour la defense de la Liberte Religieuse)
- Tolerance and freedom of religion or belief in education
- Project on Human Rights Education (see program description)
CEC (Council of European Churches)
- Program on human rights and religious freedom (see program description)
NETWORKS AND RESOURCE SITES
- The Tandem project was created with a view to promote, sponsor and support implementation of Article 18 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the 1981 U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. more information
ENRECA (European Network for Religious Education in Europe through Contextual Approaches)
- ENRECA was
set up in 1999 in order to bring together scholars engaged in
empirical and theoretical research in aspects of religion and
education in relation to intercultural issues
> more information
INIRICE (International Network for Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Education)
- The Network
was set up in 1994, with the aim of promoting links between Southern
African and Northern European research groups working in fields
connecting religion and education in culturally diverse democratic
societies
> more information
ISREV (International Seminar on Religious Education and Values)
- International,
but mainly first world-based network of educators and researcher
> more information
EPIL (European Project for Interreligious Learning)
EAWRE (European Association for World Religions in Education)
- Germany based; emerged from the Shap Working Party (see under CENTRES AND INSTITUTIONS) as a wider European group.
COGREE (Coordinating group for Religious Education in Europe)
- Religious education in Europe
ICCS (Intereuropean Commission on Church and School)
- Religious education in Europe
EFTRE (European Forum for Teachers of Religious Education)
HREA (Human Rights Education Associates)
IBERR (International Board of Educational Research and Researchers)
IHEU - EN (International Human-Ethical Union - Educational Network)
CENTRES AND INSTITUTIONS
Youth in Peace Education (University of Montreal)
www.cyberswirl.com/clients/YPE
Teaching Tolerance: A web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (US)
http://www.tolerance.org/about/index.html
The Shap Working
Party on World Religions in Education
www.studyoverseas.com/re/wparty.htm
Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU)
www.warwick.ac.uk/wie/wreru/
Georg Eckert Insitute for International Textbook Research
www.gei.de/english/index1.shtml
Centre for Research in Human Rights, UK
www.roehampton.ac.uk/crhr/
International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
www.iiit.org