International Conference on Education and the Holocaust

The International Conference on Education and the Holocaust (ICEH), a joint initiative of UNESCO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, seeks to advance learning about how and why the Holocaust happened and how extreme violence can erupt in a society. It will gather senior education policy-makers from Argentina, Columbia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Ukraine. Participants are organized into country teams of educators, civil society leaders, academics and education ministry officials.

During the Conference, participants work together with international experts, in workshops and round-tables and design projects that help institutionalize or strengthen Holocaust education in ways relevant to their national contexts. The projects are subsequently implemented with the support of UNESCO and the Museum. These country-specific strategies may include curriculum development and revision, creation of educational materials, capacity-building initiatives, cultural projects, academic initiatives and pedagogical research.

The ICEH supports UNESCO’s efforts to promote Global Citizenship Education (GCED), a priority of the Education 2030 Agenda. In this context, it seeks to encourage Member States to provide students with skills to engage in critical enquiry about what makes genocide possible and equip them to recognize the role of human rights and active citizenship today, while exploring past atrocities.

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