For long enough, school has not been a place where children or adults come with joy, anticipation, curiosity or naive idea of benevolent socialization, adventures of learning and exploring. It is often a source of anxiety, a platform for perpetuating patriarchal, militant and violent values. A place where the child is no longer in the center of meaning and existence, but the subject of bureaucratic, technocratic and stereotyped approaches. Teachers, as the most valuable individuals of all educational systems, also represent the strongest link in creating a culture of peace.

This conference aims to gather all education lovers, those teachers who stand on the other side of violence and who, with their approach, content and broad understanding of their role that goes beyond the norm, duration and conservative idea of the teacher archetype, raise generations of good children with strong empathy and feeling for others, an internalized culture of peace and capable partners in building a better, fairer and more peaceful world.
We are rallying around our mission as never before, driven by the terrifying global, regional, and disturbing examples of violence in schools that have awakened immense and justified discontent over years of child neglect and turning a blind eye to all those children who have never been seen, addressed, cared for or hugged.

For years we’ve been offering a place where people gather to create new ideas in order to build good education and protect the joy of childhood for every child.