NaCCED’s Director of Training and Curriculum Development, Alphan Alieu Tajawie, is participating in the UNESCO International policy training “on addressing violent pasts through education”, which is taking place from 15th-19th September 2025 in Oswiecin, Poland.
The Policy training is organized within the framework of UNESCO’s broader programme on Global Citizenship Education and the implementation of the 2023 Recommendation on Education for Peace.
The training will convene Education Policy Makers from up to 19 countries globally to explore approaches to address local violent pasts as a foundation for sustainable peace.
An important part of the training will be held at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which today hosts the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Auschwitz-Birkenau is an emblematic site of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, as well as an exemplary place of preservation and transmission of a deeply traumatic and violent past.
Participants will have the opportunity to visit the site, engage with its history, and meet with local staff from the memorial and museum. Participants will also be introduced to UNESCO’s new policy guide, “Addressing violent pasts through education.”
