GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION

5-week online workshop
Dates: July 29 to September 2, 2025; Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time (NY)

Global Citizenship Education – Live Virtual Workshop

5-week online workshop
Dates: August 1 — August 29, 2025
5 online sessions, 1 every Friday, 1pm – 3pm Eastern Time (New York)

Times have changed, and the notion that we're all connected has never rung more true. How can you embed global citizenship skills into your classroom?

Join this course to unpack this question while building invigorating, lasting relationships with like-minded educators in the program. Get the continuing education credits you need at the same time!

Join us for the full course experience—5 weekly live sessions designed to build practical skills and meaningful connections. Upon completion, you'll receive a professional development certificate from the University for Peace’s Centre for Executive Education. This course also counts as credit toward the UPEACE Diploma in Social Innovation or the Global Leadership Diploma, both backed by the United Nations.

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Who should take this course?

Innovative professionals at all levels that are looking to weave global citizenship concepts into their work. However, anyone who is interested in gaining a global perspective on education will benefit tremendously from this course.

Who should take this course?

Innovative professionals at all levels that are looking to weave global citizenship concepts into their work. However, anyone who is interested in gaining a global perspective on education will benefit tremendously from this course.
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Interactive sessions and compelling content

Turn on your webcam! The ‘live virtual’ workshops replicate face-to-face sessions as if we were together in the same room. We will be dynamic, using break-out rooms, real-time polls, and interactive activities.

What to expect: course skills and benefits

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Application

Learn the advantages and challenges of applying this knowledge in your future projects.

Novel Content

Receive novel content to incorporate cutting-edge global citizenship themes into your work.

Understanding

Learn why it is more important than ever to understand and teach global citizenship.

Integration

Integrate the values of global citizenship, environmental consciousness, and social justice into future projects.

Certificate

Receive a certificate from the Centre for Executive Education team at the University for Peace, established by the United Nations.

Feedback

Get personalized feedback from your course instructor to apply what you’re learning in your own life.

Network

Network with a robust group of international leaders across all sectors during the workshop and beyond.

Dynamic Learning

Expect an engaging and dynamic experience that replicates the interaction of face-to-face sessions.

Application

Learn the advantages and challenges of applying this knowledge in your future projects.

Novel Content

Receive novel content to incorporate cutting-edge global citizenship themes into your work.

Understanding

Learn why it is more important than ever to understand and teach global citizenship.

Integration

Integrate the values of global citizenship, environmental consciousness, and social justice into future projects.

Dynamic Learning

Expect an engaging and dynamic experience that replicates the interaction of face-to-face sessions.

Network

Network with a robust group of international leaders across all sectors during the workshop and beyond.

Feedback

Get personalized feedback from your course instructor to apply what you’re learning in your own life.

Certificate

Receive a certificate from the Centre for Executive Education team at the University for Peace, established by the United Nations.

This course counts as part of the Diploma in Social Innovation or Global Leadership Diploma.

Five live sessions will be held every week

  • Introduction to Global Citizenship Education Pedagogy
  • Introduction to Design Thinking
  • Empathy & Cultural Humility
  • Critical Skills for Global Citizenship Education
  • Global Citizenship Education Applied: Latest approaches to solving humanity’s greatest challenges

Naita Saechao Chialvo

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Naita brings an emergent approach to the art of teaching and facilitation, honoring the beginner’s mind with each learning opportunity, community, and course. Equipped with a Master’s in Peace Education from the United Nations established University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica, Next Economy MBA Certificate, Diploma in Social Innovation from the University for Peace Centre for Executive Education in Costa Rica, professional Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from INSEAD’s Singapore campus, she brings a joy-centered approach to learning and leadership. She also holds a bachelor’s in Economics, minor in Asian American Studies from UCLA, Leadership Certificate from the UCLA Center for Asian American Studies.

She is an experienced global leader at the intersection of education-for-change, youth-for-change, women-led empowerment building, and the community-led development sector, deeply committed to lasting transformative change, and large-scale mobilization initiatives to improve opportunities centering global majority communities and communities at the margins. She meditates on systems and frameworks for expanding education as the equalizer for improving the wellbeing of global communities with a nuanced and curiosity filled approach to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for social justice worldwide. Her deep lived experiences as a hilltribe refugee from Laos/Thailand, as the daughter of a Mien shaman, and as a global leader with experiences spanning APAC and the Americas region with Rural Education and Development Global (READ Global) and The Asia Foundation, teaching & learning experiences with Stanford d.school’s Design for Extreme Affordability & Stanford Graduate School of Education’s Teacher Education Program, United World College (Thailand), WorldTeach (Republic of the Marshall Islands) and the University for Peace (Costa Rica) helps to bring humility and appreciation for multiple ways of seeing the world we live in, and also a heart-filled vision to transform for possibilities future generations of right living with plants, people and our home planet.

✉️ naita.chialvo@gmail.com

Taylor O’Connor

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Taylor is a youth peacebuilding specialist and peace educator passionate about peacebuilding innovation and participatory approaches. Early in his career, he worked with arts-based programming for children and youth, then earned his Bachelor’s in Child Development from San Diego State University in 2005. After completing his Master’s in Peace Education from UPEACE in 2009, he spent nearly a decade living and working with youth peacebuilders and community-based organizations in Myanmar.

Taylor also worked with UNICEF headquarters to develop resources supporting youth peacebuilding initiatives and spent several years facilitating participatory processes to plan programming with and for adolescents and youth in conflict-affected contexts worldwide (one key resource - www.adolescentkit.org). Recommendations from a global evaluation he conducted now form the foundation of UNICEF’s current global youth peacebuilding strategy. When COVID hit, Taylor created virtual trainings and eCourses with UNICEF that have reached participants in 100+ countries.

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Taylor divides his time between developing his blog, consulting with international agencies, and supporting grassroots peacebuilders. Through his professional work and blog, he seeks to address systemic inequalities, decolonize peacebuilding, and foster grassroots innovation for peace. His goal is to empower people to dismantle systems of oppression, transform the social issues they care about most, and build peace in their communities.

✉️ taylor@everydaypeacebuilding.com

This course runs from July 29 to September 2, 2025. It is a 5-week course with live virtual sessions every Tuesday at 10 am Eastern Time (New York). Attendance at the weekly session is mandatory.

Price for full 5-week program: $650

A certificate is awarded upon completion of the full 5-week program by the Centre for Executive Education at the University for Peace, established by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Have a question? Contact us at centre@upeace.org with inquiries or to set up a phone call, or visit our Frequently Asked Questions section.

“UPEACE creates a dynamic and stimulating online experience. The use of breakout rooms allowed me to have small group exercises with other participants, just as we would do in a normal classroom setting. In just an hour’s session, I was able to truly connect with the group, while learning a practical framework. Overall, this online session was more interactive than most in-person workshops I’ve attended!”

-Zahra Karsan, Speaker, Coach, Founder & CEO of GetZENd

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